Chris Coyier

Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Uninformed

Chris Coyier — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:21:24 +0000

Hello,

I’m looking for a price for a custom wordpress theme created by you for a website of mine. I’m not too interested in telling you much about the website, I’m just looking for a design to be made.

Thanks,
Jim

Hey Jim,

Design exists to serve the content. No designer is going to agree to design a website without knowing what the content is going to be. Or if they do, they aren’t a very good designer.

Good luck,
-Chris

Ways to Improve Pitchfork Music Festival

Chris Coyier — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:49:45 +0000

Turn it up.
It was far too quiet. If you didn’t want to jam your way up to the front of a stage to hear better, you were left with muffled quiet shitty sound.
More Porta-Potties.
People were not kidding Saturday when they were saying they spent more time peeing than they did watching music. It was often a 45-minute affair. To Pitchfork’s credit, it was better on Sunday.
Let me bring in my camera.
It was probably posted somewhere so it was my fault, but I’m still bitter about it. I had to cab all the way home to drop of my camera that I was unallowed to bring in. Point-and-shoots were fine, but not my Canon Digital Rebel. Why? All I would have done is snap some fun pictures and post them around the internet. Isn’t that free promo? I can’t think of a single reason why people were turned away for this.

Locations with Panhandles

Chris Coyier — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:32:44 +0000

Florida
Oklahoma
Idaho
My Cupboard

Enjoyable Words

Chris Coyier — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:56:15 +0000

conspicuous
colloquial
behoove
opulence
micturate

Chicago

Chris Coyier — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:50:51 +0000

I’ve made it! Hopefully I’ll get some photos posted of the journey soon. I managed to completely ruin my old desk during the move, which was a bummer. So I went to Office Max this morning and bought a 6′ hard plastic banquet table for $66 and it’s twice as good as my stupid old desk. Win. And for the record, Pequod’s Pizza fricking rules. It is pan pizza where the crust is formed by cheese melting over and burning to the side of the pan.

Old Devils

Chris Coyier — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:32:16 +0000

William Elliot Whitmore’s Animals In The Dark is the shit. It’s my “album of the year” so far for sure.

Annoyingness Rating Scale

Chris Coyier — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:01:27 +0000

Meh.
Pf.
Meh.
Tuh.
Kuh.

If You Say You’re Gonna Play Nice, Play Nice!

Chris Coyier — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:01:20 +0000

Campaign Monitor:

Outlook is broken, let’s fix it.

Microsoft:

There is no widely-recognized consensus in the industry about what subset of HTML is appropriate for use in e-mail for interoperability. The “Email Standards Project” does not represent a sanctioned standard or an industry consensus in this area.

Dave Greiner:

The only problem is that “broadly adopted standards” already exist for HTML email. They are called web standards, and almost every email client on the market meets these standards.

Dave Dudley (is Awesome)

Chris Coyier — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:22:39 +0000

Who Cares

Chris Coyier — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:45:31 +0000

Kim Krause:

People always ask, “What do you think of my site?” I want to say back to them, “Who cares what I think. Does it meet your site requirements? Has it been tested? Has each requirement been validated? Are your site guidelines being adhered to? Have you checked your logs? Do you have it set up for data analysis and tracking so you know for sure what’s not working as per your requirements?”