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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Author Archives: Chris Heisel
Begun these layout wars have
There’s a layout battle brewing in the blogosphere that’s sure to ripple out to the rest of the Web design community. Several prominent bloggers have begun switching to fixed-width layouts for their site. Whitespace makes several points about legibility and … Continue reading
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Site improvements
As you can see, heisel.org, has taken on a slight new look. I’ve switched to a sans-serif typeface for everything but blockquotes, and I’ve adjusted some of the color scheme here and there. I also moved the historic photo of … Continue reading
Posted in Site News, Web design
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I don’t want to say I told you so…
But Advertising.com has finished a study that shows that up to 85% of “conversions” occur days after a user has seen an ad. (via Web Marketing News) While I’ve talked about this before, I’ll readily admit that I don’t have … Continue reading
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There’s nothing like a click
Flyout menus: I don’t like ’em. I don’t want ’em. Recently, my employer, AJC.com, switched to using flyout menus, and many other Web sites and Web applications use them. I understand the need. As a designer, you have to constantly … Continue reading
Posted in Web design
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This Tux’s for you
Lately I’ve been playing around with Linux on my primary WinTel box at home, in thought that I might soon replace Windows XP on my home server with a flavor of Linux. But that begs the question: Which one? I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
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