Home of Jerry Nowell, an average, all-American guy with a beautiful wife, handsome son, and an overweight cat.
August 14th, 2007
Man uses blog. Man encourages wife to use blog. Wife uses blog. Man and wife forget about blog. Family complains. Man uses blog…
That’s a brief recap of our recent blogging fortunes. To placate the disgruntled family members, I’m posting photos with a vengeance. Enjoy! …Continue Reading »
July 28th, 2007
We’re officially back from vacation and we’ve probably checked our various e-mail accounts around 400 times. We had a wonderful, and restful, time at the lakes and we will eventually post a few photos to prove it. We’re eager and apprehensive about returning to work on Monday—a week away is far too long, but oddly not long enough.
June 23rd, 2007
June 11th, 2007
If you look closely at CNN.com you’ll find a link to their new beta website. Now I’m not sure what it is, perhaps it’s the lifeless gray background, or the individual boxes for each chunk of content, but I’m not a fan. With the completely disconnected horizontal bar at the top, it almost seems like two different competing pages.
While the content blocks offer clear visual divisions, and an overall “cleaner” look, the beta offers a lot less content (in terms of headlines). While I’m glad to see that CNN continues to refine its style, I’m not sure they’ve ever managed to concoct anything completely pleasing. With every redesign they manage to fixate on stuff that, to my eyes, already seems dated and bland. I’m usually one of the first to say “it’s the content, stupid,” but I have to admit that I find myself wishing they’d come up with something a little prettier.
