Wilson’s great a thought-provoking piece on text size on the web, where he suggests that a 16px base size online is more or less equivalent to a 11pt size in print. He’s got some good evidence to back it up, and the discussion that follows is pretty interesting. Visit site »
Four score and seven years ago, there was a designer and blogger who went by the name “Wilson Miner,” and he was good (at both design and blogging). Then, he was swallowed up by some large company with a fruit for a name, never to be seen again. Today, he has resurfaced, with a new design for his personal site. And it is awesome. Love the classic 60s posters inspiration and the treatment of Wilson’s trademark green. Speaking of the green: check out the way everything on the page is opacity-driven, so that he can change the green to some other color with little to no effort.
“Little to no effort” is really important to guys who only blog once a year, it seems. :) Visit site »
Wonderful design work by Wilson Miner on the new EveryBlock city homepages. Visit site »
Apparently is prototyping elements day on jeffcroft.com. Here’s an awesome-looking PSD full of iPhone widgets. Via Wilson. Visit site »
EveryBlock added Seattle to its list of cities — as well as Boston and D.C. Sweet. Visit site »
EveryBlock takes over A List Apart for an issue, with Wilson Miner’s awesome piece on using web standards to create data visualizations like bar charts and sparklines, and Paul Smith showing you how to roll your own custom mapping interface. Great issue. Visit site »
EveryBlock has launched. Congrats to Adrian, Wilson, and the rest. Extremely well-done! Read their launch message. Visit site »
Adrian Holovaty, Wilson Miner, and their other partners are launching EveryBlock this afternoon. Those in the journalism industry have been waiting for several months to see this site, as it’s being put together by the core of folks that bought us ChicagoCrime.org, Django, Ellington, Lawrence.com, and some other very noteworthy web journalism projects.
I got myself a small sneak preview, and I can tell you: it’s worth the wait (at least if you live in one of EveryBlock’s launch cities). That’s all I’ll say, for now. Look for a review of EveryBlock here at jeffcroft.com in the coming days. Visit site »
Wilson has created a sweet little iPhone-esque Growl notification style. I love it! First one I’ve ever seen that convinced me to switch away from the Music Video style. Visit site »
Once again, the blogosphere’s trashtalkingest and most reprehensible fantasy football league, the IKNFL, is increasing its roster. If you like fantasy football, get over to Mike’s site and grab a spot.
I hesitate to mention the real reason you should go over to Mike’s blog post, for fear that someone may retaliate by posting Jr. High photos of me. So, I won’t bring up the hilarious photo of a certain ex-World Online and ex-Apple employee. Just trust me. You want to read this blog post. Visit site »
Blueprint is a CSS framework based very heavily on the work Nathan, Christian and I did at the Journal-World (and also taking some cues from Wilson Miner and Khoi Vinh). I’m happy to see it out there and someone else supporting it (since we never could have), but I do sort of wish I’d at least gotten a heads up that someone was planning to package and release it. I suppose Olav didn’t need to ask for permission, but it would have been the polite thing to do. We never really intended our work to see the light of day, but I’m not really bothered that is has. And, Olav does give credit where credit is due.
Anyway, it does look good. It’s got a few minor improvements on what we had built and is packaged very neatly. Give it a look, if you’re interested in this sort of thing. Visit site »
Ahh, Wilson. You have been missed. Here’s hoping you’ll return to your regular blog posting schedule of once a month or so. Hearing from you only four times in your entire tenure at that fruit company has been a bit too little Wilson for my taste.
Seriously, good stuff here. Check it out. Visit site »