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cnn better check their pulse

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November 5th, 2009
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Living under a rock? Perhaps you don’t care much for news and the media. So we are on the same page, CNN just recently launched a redesign of their site. It has been the center of a lot of design discussions lately.

I personally do not like ALL of it. It is definitely a huge improvement over their previous design, but still could use some serious cleaning up.

One of the main tabs on the site is their “News Pulse” section which offers up a view at the most popular news from as recent as 15 minutes, all the way up to 30 days. read more →

CSS Custom Cursors

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October 27th, 2009
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Just a quick little tip to use your own custom cursor(s) in your applications.

Most of you are probably familiar with Netflix. Maybe you don’t use it, but understand it exists. On the “your queue” page you are able to add, reorder, and delete items. There are three ways you can move a selection:

  1. ‘Click’ the “top” icon, which will move that item to the first position
  2. ‘Drag + Drop’ a selection to a desired location.
  3. ‘Type’ in the textbox the order in which you wish the items to appear (least favorite method) read more →

Why I MIGHT skip Photoshop

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October 25th, 2009
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Some time ago, in a far off place I wrote a post in response to a 37 Signals post about why they skip Photoshop in their design process. Initially I felt this was an awful idea, and that it could never work for me. Most of my commenters agreed with me, but I would like to take a minute and reassess my position, and perhaps dare I say, side with them a bit? read more →

matt said to say ‘hi’

posted on:
October 1st, 2009
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Wow, it sure has been a long time since I’ve written anything.

Just a quick hello, because I need to get working on much more interesting posts.

My name is Matt Rossi, and as it says in the header of this page, I am a Web & User-Interface Designer. That is right. I design things for the Web, and do my best to make them as usable and inviting as possible. I ran/run a small blog, ifohdesigns.com, and it does me great pleasure to get back into it. read more →