Posts Tagged ‘pretty website’

The Good: Digsby is gor­geous. I love the gigantic flu­o­res­cent “down­load” bar that gets OS-specific after you click on it. I love their coming soon page, too, although I might have pre­ferred to find an actual download.

The Bad: No more Digby. I’m trying hard not to think about it because it makes me sad. Why aren’t there more beau­tiful & clever, highly sat­u­rated things around? (I am hap­piest in tech­ni­colour). I don’t under­stand why “reality” is so inter­esting. There’s enough reality right out­side my door; I’d rather the fan­tasy when I’m looking to get out of my head.

and the Ridicu­lous: Minggl thinks “b3k 4w5″ isn’t a valid postal code. It took me three tries to figure out they wanted me to cap­i­talize it. Seri­ously? Canada Post will deliver my mail if I forget the majority of the address and scrawl it upside down with a six-inch-wide marker, but some web app that isn’t ever going to send me mail can’t val­i­date a low­er­case postal code?

Also, why are all web apps named by dyslexic five year olds now? I miss real words.

Damn, you look fine.

Where’ve you been all my life? Or, more accu­rately, where’ve you been the last four years of my life, during which I never once wor­ried about prop­erly citing an essay penned by three authors quoting a stage play by an unknown play­wright? I mean, the Virgo-perfectionist in me really loves style man­uals. And I really need to work on my typo­graphic cor­rect­ness. I’m a little ashamed to say that I’ve only VERY recently come to learn about using my proper em-dashes (I’m still a little unclear on en-dashes). Clients who didn’t auto­mat­i­cally smart-quote their own HTML (read: all of them) for a while were the bane of my exis­tence, until I cajoled a pro­grammer friend into writing me a block of reg­ular expres­sions that does it auto­mat­i­cally. I’m making progress.

Anyway, I know it’s been a while, but boy, have you ever kept your­self in shape. What a typo­graph­i­cally pretty website.