Jim O’Neill

I found The Resumator via a random link in an RFP, and I have to say, it looks pretty neat.  They seem like the kind of Web 2.0-style service that I have come to appreciate: big, friendly design with a focus on down-to-earth communication that tells you what they do and why it’s good — plus a blog that reassures you that they’re real people who know and care about their industry.  But one little aspect of their design caught my attention. Read more »

Mathew Patterson — of one of my favorite web services, Campaign Monitor — has written a recent article on Smashing Magazine which goes over best practices for designing HTML emails.  And much as I enjoyed (and agree with) all the tips having to do with respecting your viewers and their preferences, the golden nugget which will save me at least 2 hours per email is the paragraph in which he links to several free online services that will take your HTML email code and convert all the CSS to inline styles automatically — such as Premailer.  Hooray!

After a long hiatus from blogging, I’ve decided to come back.  This post is merely to signify the transition point: posts newer than this will be about design, development, and other interests of mine; posts older than this constitute a travelogue from my 5-week journey around New Zealand in January and February 2009 with my friend Marli.

At long last, just about all of my photos from the trip are online, and most of Marli’s too.  They’re all hosted on Flickr. Read more »

There are at least 1 or 2 more posts coming down the pike before this blog reverts to a torrid journal of my angsty private thoughts (ha ha, just kidding; I’m not nearly that interesting) — including photos, I promise.  But first, we figured it might be a good idea to pre-empt a bunch of potential questions from people we might encounter who have either been to New Zealand, or have at least heard something about New Zealand, and want to know “Did you _____ while you were there?”  So following are brief lists of New Zealand things (and farm things) which we did and did not do. Read more »