Davin's blog

Month: February 2003

  • The web ain’t cheap!

    You know, it seems like every time I submit a proposal for web development to a prospect, I feel like I have to apologize for the estimate. I know it is higher than they expect. I have been told that, repeatedly. Part of it is because I generally work with smaller companies and non-profit organizations,…

  • I am alone.

    Okay, so that’s a little dramatic. Chey and Lila are down in Richmond, Indiana for a week and a half. They are staying with some friends of ours (they also have a two-year old). Chey is on spring break (she teaches at Lansing Community College), and she is taking this opportunity to hole up in…

  • Tri-state road review

    Yesterday I was driving around the area where Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana meet. Some roads were I96 and highway 20 (is that an Ohio highway?). Anyway, my review is that roads in Michigan are, in general, bumpier than in Ohio or Indiana. Not so nice to drive upon. Why the difference? Is it weather? Funding…

  • A tech company in Okemos? Who’d a thought…

    So a few weekends ago I was in the East Lansing Barnes & Noble children’s section with Lila and Chey; we, I mean, Lila was playing with the wooden train set they have. Another couple with a two-year-old train set afficianado came over, and Chey and I started chatting with the couple. It turns out…

  • Redesigned

    So, with the ditching of the frames came a bit of a prettying up for this page. Note the background image in the lower-left. Those are actually some photoshopped leaves from our plant, George.

  • We’re expecting, by the way…

    For those who haven’t heard yet, we are expecting our second child. Due date is August 10th. We’re scheduled to go camping up north the week before that, so that could be an interesting trip.

  • Ditched the frames.

    Yeah, I just couldn’t take the hypocrisy anymore. Frames are gone.

  • Zeldman is doing a redesign,

    Zeldman is doing a redesign, usually interesting to look at. Check it out.

  • “Go kitchen. Cook food.” Lila,

    “Go kitchen. Cook food.” Lila, my two-year old daughter, and I were sitting on our couch a couple evenings ago while Chey was out. Lila, tired from playing, rested her head down on a stack of clean clothes and pointed to a blanket. I tucked her into the blanket. “My sleeping,” she said. Then she…

  • In the ongoing search for masterpieces on the web…

    The Peabody Essex Museum has an online exhibit of a traditional Chinese home. The exhibit is really very well designed and well styled. When looking at design, I sometimes think about it from an organic design perspective. The web is at the core a place of data, rectangles, and symmetry…not so organic. This site does…