TJ Kelly — Web Design/Development Articles & Entries
Just read a very interesting (and somewhat justifying) article by Paul Carvill on the value of front-end web developers. It’s kind of esoteric, and it’s probably a minor case of tooting my own horn. But, the points that Carvill makes are valid.
I’m not really a fan of Google’s latest design changes. Increasing the size of the text-input seems fine, but the new buttons are atrocious. The biggest difference is the font-size on the buttons. But, with Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS X, the default crystal-themed buttons can only get so big.
I launched another website today, my 3rd in about a month: Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity at UMass Amherst. I designed this website for PiKapp, my beloved fraternity, way back in 2005, again in 2006, and again in 2007. Now, nine months into 2009, I did it again. I took my time with this one (there [...]
I launched another website today. I’ve been working on a redesign of the UMass Drumline website for several years now. It was always one of those casual, “get to it when I can” type of projects. Well, I finally finished it.
The site is built on Wordpress and uses a YouTube-inspired theme to showcase videos. I [...]





