David Emery OnlineNew site #1
One of the things that has been keeping me busy over the last few weeks is the new Adele site, which we’ve just launched:
This is the second phase of the Adele site, which up until now consisted solely of large video. We’ve kept that, and extended it with all sorts of extra content – news, tour dates, discography info, photos, links and more. Although it looks relatively straight forward, it’s actually got all sorts of interesting bits dotted about.
For a start, it’s got microformats all over the place. The gigs use vcalendars, the main news feed is in hAtom (as is the blog) and the music page marks up the releases using hAudio (which I used here for the first time – not sure I really see the point of it as yet but it took no time to implement so why not!). In the same spirit it’s also got a .ics feed of tour dates so you can easily add them into iCal or another .ics compatible calendar app.
It’s also got all sorts of vaguely ‘social’ aspects – for want of a better term. Comments are enabled all over the place, the photos section pulls in photos from...
Read more ➔The Big Picture - Boston.com
Simple but perfect – a blog showcasing exceptional news photography, with nice and large photos.
Visit ➔Versions - Mac Subversion Client
Finally a decent Mac Subversion client – I’ve been using it for the past couple of days and it seems to be really nice.
Visit ➔Future Photoshop UI changes
I find it very frustrating that Adobe think they know best when it comes to creating interfaces, when they quite obviously don’t. Is it too much to ask to have native window controls?
Visit ➔Bon Iver at St Giles Church
Well, I’ve been a bit busy recently and for that I apologise. Hopefully now I may well be past the main hump of stuff that has kept me far too occupied, of which I will show you some of shortly. Of course, every time I think things may get quieter they get busier, but it’s far better to be busy, isn’t it?
It’s not all work work work though – there’s been plenty gig going and music watching eating into my time as well. Last night was bar far and away the highlight though, with Bon Iver playing St Giles Church in central London. I’ve gone on about Bon Iver here before and with good reason – his album, ‘For Emma Forever Ago’ is probably my favourite album of the year, packed full of amazingness (which should really be a word).
It’s a beautiful piece of work.
Somehow though, live it manages to be even better; I’d go as far as to say that yesterday may well be my favourite gig of the year – if not the last few years, for that matter – with only Radiohead at the BBC running it close. The setting – a proper, active church –...
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Design Rants
“I don’t really have a good fix for this one. I ran out of ideas, so no text expandability. But I feel really bad about that, so the guilt makes up for it, right? Right?”
Exactly my thinking when it comes to html/css – have a good go at making it work in the ideal, totally-semantic-markup + no javascript requirement + text-expandable way but sometimes it’s just not pragmatic. Of course, if your html is well written you can always turn off css to get at the content, but that’s hardly a good solution… oh the guilt.
Visit ➔Play Magnatune music on your blog
I’m not sure why more labels and shops don’t let you embed streaming players of their music – it’s great promotion.
Visit ➔Dean Kamen Outdoes Himself (Again)
This is amazing – Dean Kamen (of Segway infamy) has created a prosthetic arm aimed at amputees. It’s not called the ‘Luke arm’ for nothing (fast forward to the arm demos):
Yes, we are living in the future.
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