Vassar Web Design

Vassar College

May 12, 2010

Our use of Flickr for press release images

by Megg Brown

In 2009 we ventured into the cloud to use Flickr to manage images for media relations. It began as an experiment, and has allowed us to explore different uses for the images. It was worth the small amount of risk.

Read more →


The tech specs on the Vassar College Catalogue

by Megg Brown

A technical walk-through of how the college catalogue is set up in our CMS, Cascade Server. It started as a note to another Cascade user, and might be helpful to others. A less Cascade-specific description of how the catalogue is set up is planned.

Read more →


April 13, 2010

Naked CSS Day

Naked CSS Day is April 9th every year since 2006. Looks like Dustin Diaz didn’t update the logo from last year but people still did it this year.

- Ray Schwartz


April 9, 2010

Where is the fold?

Related to previous post on the fold – web-based tool to locate the fold on any site in various resolutions: Where is the fold on Vassar’s homepage?. They mention Google Labs BrowserSize but I couldn’t get that to work.

- Ray Schwartz


Safari generates Safari

A good browser should be able to reproduce itself (view in Safari). No images, no JS, no Canvas, CSS and HTML only. David DeSandro’s creation who has many other cool projects as well.

- Ray Schwartz


March 26, 2010

The importance of above the fold

Jakob Nielson’s recent study Scrolling and Attention shows, “Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold.”

- Ray Schwartz


March 18, 2010

Movies in only 4 pixels

Try to guess what the movie is when it has been distilled to a 4-pixel graphic in 4 Pixels or less. The real point is minimalist design. By Paddy Donnelly.

- Ray Schwartz


March 15, 2010
March 5, 2010
March 3, 2010
← Older

Design is poetry.