When browsing the web, I often come across sites that are extremely well designed. Naturally, I want to know who built the sites that capture my attention. However, unless the design firm puts a “designed by …” link on the page, there’s no way to know who designed or built a site. That’s why I’m suggesting web design shops make use of the designer meta tag.

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Over the years I’ve built up a large collection of fonts. Having alot of fonts installed at one time can be a serious pain. Apps take longer to load and it makes choosing a font a time-consuming process. In comes Linotype Font Explorer X, a font management, selection and discovery tool for both OS X and Windows.

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Amazon has a great website and a great service. You can buy almost anything and have it show up on your doorstep the very next day. Amazon provides relevant product recommendations and a large database of user ratings. But even good things could be better. Here are 5 ways Amazon could be improved.

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A past time of mine recently has been searching the web for cool wallpapers. It started when I came across one of NASA’s astronomy pictures of the day (still my current favorite wallpaper). After looking through NASA’s archive, I moved on to Flickr and other sites. Below is a collection of some of the cool wallpapers I’ve found, and some of the sites I collect wallpapers from.

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With the recent acquisition of The Weather Channel by NBC, I am hoping there are some positive changes coming to Weather.com. The site, given its domain name, is the dominant website for checking the weather. Yet, the site presents a poor user experience, hides the good content and absent-mindedly focuses on unneeded services. Below I’ll highlight what bugs me the most and suggest some improvements.

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After delaying and delaying this project for various reasons, I’ve finally launched a new blog design for Lance Weatherby????????. Lance, whom I’ve worked with for about a year at ATDC, has been a great friend and mentor. He’s provided great input, advice and leadership.

As a way of saying thanks, I decided to lend my design skills to help Lance’s blog become a little more appealing. Check it out, comments are always welcome.