Jeff Chausse
Digital Strategy + Design
New Site Design!
Unless you’re reading this via RSS, you will notice a new site design! I hope you enjoy it. With the previous design, I was trying really hard to create a site that would work well as both a personal and “business” site. Unfortunately, it ended up being too generic and devoid of personality. So, I went back to the design I had before that design, borrowed some colors, made some tweaks, tried some new ideas, and this is the end result. I’m quite pleased with it, and I expect to update the site more frequently (blog stuff as well as other content) now that I’m happier with the design. So, please keep on visiting and enjoying all the exciting webby goodness that chausse.org has to offer.
A Humbling Thought for Web Monkeys
As you can tell, I haven’t been really posting much lately. For one thing, I’m redesigning the site… Again… Well, un-designing it, sort of… That is, making an improved variant of the previous version, really… since people seem to hate this current design, and I’m starting to agree with them.
Where was I?
Oh yeah, this seemed like a fitting anecdote to get back into the game with (since it may partially explain my lack of blogging.)
I was killing time at ThisIsBroken.com (cool site) and came to this post which sparked an argument about the pros and cons of underlining hyperlinks:
I was fully absorbed in the debate, then came to the following post:
“Do you lot ever stop mid-sentence and realise — wait, I’m 30+/nearly 30/whatever, and i am enagaged in a several page discussion about *underlining* — and then think forward to the fact that when you (meaning me) die, nothing you have made all your life will work in the current operating system/browser/ whatever they use then?”
ACK. I’m going to go build a pyramid or something now.
Minor Celebrity Sighting
I had a minor celebrity sighting today… Who do I spot at the local CompUSA store, but “Brian W.” of “Average Joe: Hawaii” fame – AKA the guy who got royally screwed over at the very end of the show. He wasn’t exactly mobbed by women when I saw him, he was just asking an employee about a printer or something. It was all very… well, not exactly surreal. It’s hard to get all emotional about running into a guy who’s famous for being average. Still, it was pretty cool. He had a Red Sox hat on.