There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Responsive Web Design, and in particular about CSS3 Media Queries. When our CEO recently asked me to make our site easier to view on his mobile phone, I jumped at the chance to retrofit our fixed-width layout using these new techniques.
I had my first day back at work today after two weeks at home with the ladies. I’ve got a lot to talk about, but I’m too tired to type it out right now, so I’m just going to share two of my favorite photos from the last few days. Both of them were taken on my cell phone. Every time I snap a photo like this, I’m glad that I put the time into comparison shopping camera phones – especially when you compare it to the photos that Annie’s camera takes. Anyways, lots of content coming very soon, in the meantime, enjoy these photos (and there’s plenty more where they came from).
After dropping off our laptops at the hotel, we headed to the after-party at the Alibi Bar in Pike Place Market, thrown by Blue Flavor. It’s a tiny, dark little bar, and it was really loud inside. It seemed like everyone was there, but since there were something like 200 people at the event, it can’t have been the whole crowd. Continue reading
We’re here! It’s 8:50, and the big screen is showing a slideshow of photos that they guys must have taken yesterday when they got into town. The conference room is really nice – slightly elevated rows as you move back in the room, with Aeron chairs at the desks for each row (no power for laptops, but there’s free wi-fi). Up front is a podium, and a table with two mac laptops and the video switchbox for the projector. I just waved at a guy I recognize from last night. Zeldman was personally supervising the lighting earlier, getting the light dim enough to focus on the stage, but still let you see your laptops (funny that’s he’s so hands-on running things – and he really is shorter than you would expect). Continue reading