About Me
I'm Jeff Fal, and I'm an information architect and front-end developer working in Denver. I have been working on the Web since 1998 and am interested in learning at least a little about most Web technologies. I'm most experienced with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flex. Soft Werewolf is my place to play.
Category Archives: Design
Adobe Edge experiment: Eddie the Brick
Adobe has seen the future — or at least a potential future — and they have prepared accordingly. If Flash meets an untimely end, Adobe Edge will rise to take its place. Even if Flash sticks around, Adobe Edge is a cool little tool that lets you add HTML/CSS/JS animation to a page in a [...]
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Server-side Image Resizing
Over at my blog for random images and news Truth (plus lies), I made a change not so long ago after realizing what’s probably true for most blogs these days — that the home page is not the front page. In other words, most visitors don’t come to a site through the home page. Far [...]
Tagged images, php, smart image resizer, thumbnails, timthumb, wordpress 1 Comment
UX Myths
Here’s a nice, ongoing list of user experience myths, along with notes about the research that debunks them. I especially like “Stock photos improve the users’ experience” (users ignore irrelevant imagery), “People don’t scroll” (scrolling comes naturally to modern Web users), and “People read on the web” (they skim for clues on what to spend [...]
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Randomness & Cleverness
Here’s a fascinating article from Underware about designing a font to look handmade. It includes a lot of information about choosing when to use different glyphs.
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