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Since such overhauls are relatively infrequent and set the stage for a web site for years to come, they are rare and vital opportunities to step back to basics. What should the site be? What should it express? Who is it for and what should it do for them?

Slant Magazine goes mobile

A responsive redesign for The Auditor

With the redesign, The Auditor principal David Latter said he his team are once again gaining “much strength from [their] client-facing persona,” and that it’s given them a “new lease of energy”.

Introducing version 3 of painter Juan Carlos Bronstein’s site

Breathing new life into The Life Centre web site

Florida Council of Independent Schools adopts CSF’s Master In-Service system

Bringing Christian Schools of Florida online, starring roles

Music Box Theatre, powered by ExpressionEngine, gets an overhaul

While upgrading from EE v1.x to 2.x, we restructured the web sites’ data, streamlined the templates and CSS, added new design elements and sharpened the typography.

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In a great blog post, Hoefler explores something that typeface designers have long known but that researchers have only now made official: "horizontal lines appear thicker than vertical ones":https://www.typography.com/blog/turning-type-sideways.

Important to consider: despite choice fatigue, "users do benefit from some symbolic choices":https://medium.com/s/story/the-ux-uncanny-valley-cf30df9fb45a, this piece argues.

Note to self: Eric Elliott's article entitled "12 Books Every JavaScript Developer Should Read":https://medium.com/javascript-scene/12-books-every-javascript-developer-should-read-9da76157fb3.

"itshello.co":https://itshello.co/ — clientless, open-source video chat in the browser.

Now that's a web site: "New York City tree map":https://tree-map.nycgovparks..org/#treeinfo-2135461 -- every last one, including street view, species, diameter. [via Kottke]

Wow, a "360° Taliesin West walkthrough":https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=iWvNCvUJxvg&utm_source=4.

In case anyone else was mildly traumatized by the way fonts appear on MacOS Mojave due to the disabling of subpixel antialiasing, here's the "solution by Github user alexanderyakusik":https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/51132#issuecomment-424132330: `defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO` Also, in System Preferences > General, check Use font smoothing when available. Then reboot.

More incredibleness: "sefaria.org":https://www.sefaria.org/, a beautiful bountiful platform of the Jewish texts. What an accomplishment.

John Gruber's Daringfireball reviews — no, _essays_ — on "The iPhones XS":https://daringfireball.net/2018/09/the_iphones_xs and "Apple Watch Series 4":https://daringfireball.net/2018/09/apple_watch_series_4 are a pleasure worthy of their subject matter. They feel informed, informal, thoughtful. "Series 4 is to Apple Watch what iPhone 4 was to iPhone," Gruber writes. "The model that takes the original design to a new level."

How did I not know about ribbonfarm all these years; truly I've been living under a rock for ages. Thoughtful, concise, erudite, relevant: "Tendrils of Mess in our Brains":https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/01/05/tendrils-of-mess-in-our-brains/ by Sarah Perry.

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Elsewhere

In a great blog post, Hoefler explores something that typeface designers have long known but that researchers have only now made official: "horizontal lines appear thicker than vertical ones":https://www.typography.com/blog/turning-type-sideways.

Important to consider: despite choice fatigue, "users do benefit from some symbolic choices":https://medium.com/s/story/the-ux-uncanny-valley-cf30df9fb45a, this piece argues.

Note to self: Eric Elliott's article entitled "12 Books Every JavaScript Developer Should Read":https://medium.com/javascript-scene/12-books-every-javascript-developer-should-read-9da76157fb3.

"itshello.co":https://itshello.co/ — clientless, open-source video chat in the browser.

Now that's a web site: "New York City tree map":https://tree-map.nycgovparks..org/#treeinfo-2135461 -- every last one, including street view, species, diameter. [via Kottke]

Wow, a "360° Taliesin West walkthrough":https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=iWvNCvUJxvg&utm_source=4.

More incredibleness: "sefaria.org":https://www.sefaria.org/, a beautiful bountiful platform of the Jewish texts. What an accomplishment.

How did I not know about ribbonfarm all these years; truly I've been living under a rock for ages. Thoughtful, concise, erudite, relevant: "Tendrils of Mess in our Brains":https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/01/05/tendrils-of-mess-in-our-brains/ by Sarah Perry.

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