Author: Davin Granroth

  • 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…

  • A bold statement “Ultimately, I

    A bold statement “Ultimately, I don

  • Here’s some web history…this write

    Here’s some web history…this write up by Nielsen may have been one of the major aggressors that got frame-bashing really rolling. Also talks about the basic ideas of the web ala Tim Berners-Lee, nodes and what not. Interesting in retrospect. I wonder how the new web community would respond to this column if it was…

  • Okay, so this site uses

    Okay, so this site uses frames. Why do I bring this up? Because frames have taken a beating in the web development community for the last few years. Here are a few reasons why: They mess with our ability to bookmark pages. If you try to bookmark a page that is inside of a website…