http://gloryfish.org Articles, blog posts, and information about web design, programming, and the life of Jay Roberts. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:20:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My wife and I are all settled into our new home here in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Moving here has been a long process that we are happy to be done with. I am now freelancing full time which is an adventure all by itself. I am spending time making ... http://gloryfish.org/moving-on/ My last feed update was in September. Since then I've discovered a few new gems. If you like finding new feeds you might find some here you like. Free Speculative Fiction - http://www.freesfonline.de/rssfeed.xml Speculative Fiction, a superset of science fiction, is a latent passion of mine. When my Xbox died ... http://gloryfish.org/new-feeds-november/ I just enabled full-text feeds for this site. *crickets, one guy way in the back clapping ecstatically* Okay, so it's not a mega-ton announcement. For me it's a good thing because it has been nagging at the back of my mind for a few weeks. Now it's one less thing I ... http://gloryfish.org/full-text-feeds-are-working-and-why-you-should-care/ Steve Krug's fantastic introduction to web usability, Don't Make Me Think, begins by presenting two views of website content: 1. The Website is a novel - It is carefully designed to be read and understood completely. This is how the website builder thinks. 2. The Website is a billboard - It will be glanced ... http://gloryfish.org/a-broken-billboard/ About once a month, I make a list of all of the new RSS feeds I've found and added to my reader. Each one has had some bit of information that I've found to be interesting or useful. The new arrivals this month: PSDTuts - http://psdtuts.com/feed/ There are lots of ... http://gloryfish.org/new-feeds-september/ Tycho from Penny Arcade wrote an infectious ballad about the death of  a game character called My Belruel. A good place to hear the song is the Wired article about the Penny Arcade crew. It kept me awake the first night I heard it until I pulled out my guitar and ... http://gloryfish.org/my-belruel-chords/ One of the first things I did when I made my first website was to add a hit counter to the bottom of every page. Do you remember seeing those? They were little tags that said: This page has been viewed 000210 times since January 11, 1994. Every time you ... http://gloryfish.org/your-hitcounter-is-so-web-10/ August was a busy month for building new sites. Even better, it was a busy month for finishing sites. As any software developer will tell you, you can add a hundred features to a product but the most important one of all is the last one. http://gloryfish.org/projects-finished-in-august/ This was by far the fastest site rebuild I've ever done. Chalk one up for motivation and free time. On a whim last week I gutted the Gloryfish.org domain of three+ years of cruft that had been building up. After three full versions of the site, each with a different ... http://gloryfish.org/the-new-site-is-now-open/ I think I'll start doing a semi regular update on new feeds I've added to my reader. I love discovering new cool things so maybe you will too.WebcomicsKittyBot - http://www.kitty-bot.com/rss.phpThe title should be all you need. Kitties? Bots? Sign me up. It's actually much better than that even. Gorgeous artwork, ... http://gloryfish.org/new-feeds-august/