Museum Website Top-Level Navigation Items
How many navigation items do museum websites have? How are they split? What are the most common terms? I looked at 35 museum websites and this is what I learned:
60% of sites split their persistent navigation into two groups (usually with different font sizes or visual treatment). Read more
Simple jQuery Show/Hide Tabs
Updated June 20, 2010: There’s an improved version of this code posted here. Use it instead!
I am learning jQuery and really loving it! Here’s a simple bit of code I wrote to achieve an interface element. It’s basically tabs — there’s a list of links and when you click one the corresponding content is shown. Read more
Creating the Grange Prize Online Vote
The vote page of the 2010 Grange Prize
The Grange Prize is an annual contemporary photography prize. The winner is chosen through a people’s-choice vote conducted in-gallery and online. When the AGO took over the site this year, our goal was to create an easy to use and reasonably secure voting mechanism. Read more
Wednesday Cooper in Broken Pencil Magazine
My comic Wednesday Cooper is excerpted in the latest issue of Broken Pencil, “the magazine of ‘zine culture and the independent arts.” Shout out to Nathaniel at BP — thanks man! Read more
New Comic! About a guy with super powers!
OK, last catch-up for tonight. I’ve started drawing a comic that’s about as non-Wednesday as it gets. I should keep quiet about it until it’s further along, but for now, an establishing shot…
Update 12/12/11: This concept eventually became the webcomic “Multiple,” which you can read about here. Read more
Converting the AGO blog from Serendipity to WordPress
Hi there. Been busy, but not posting any of it here. Will attempt to catch up, somewhat. This one will be about some recent work on the Art Gallery of Ontario blog, Art Matters.
The Art Gallery of Ontario blog was running S9Y, and it was rough. Read more
AGO / OSC / ROM Web Summit
Every few months the web teams of the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario Science Centre and the Art Gallery of Ontario get together for a nerd-fest. The events are a welcome diversion from the daily grind of production, and a vital expression of community and common purpose. Read more
Art Gallery of Ontario Website Redesign
Well, here it is. In the first of four planned releases we’ve introduced a look and feel constructed around the AGO’s new graphic identity. It’s the result of a team effort, and seasons of research.
From a development perspective it’s simply a re-skinning of the legacy ColdFusion site; the CMS we’ve been implementing with Devlin will debut in the coming months. Read more
Drawings August 21
First week at TSA. My friends both bailed because they are lame. It’s a good venue, tho. New drawings on Flickr. Read more
Drawings, August 6 & 13
Two more weeks of drawings up on flickr. My friend JA’s joined the crew, which is awesome because the whole thing was her idea to begin with. But OCAD’s season is finished now so we’re searching for a new venue… Read more
