Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
One of my websites has won an award. The University of Guelph website has been awarded the Gold medal from the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE) in their annual Prix D’Excellence awards program. The CCAE competition recognizes outstanding achievements in alumni affairs, public affairs, development, student recruitment and overall institutional Advancement. Our last CCAE award for the website was back in 2001 when we won a Gold medal with the introduction of the previous design.
The site was assessed by advancement colleagues and external professional judges on the overall effectiveness of the homepage with regard to institutional identity; availability of appropriate and desirable links; ease of use; consideration of the institution’s audiences; and quality of multi-media presentations linked to the homepage. The Judges noted the overall strengths of the site included modern design, Web 2.0 principles, and a focus on useful, well-presented content. “The navigation is clear, the code is strong, and the writing is crisp and concise.”
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
I’ve decided that the long dark night of the previous template needed to change with the season, and I’m the process of putting a new theme on the blog, and doing a lot of much needed behind the scenes upgrades and maintenance. Things will probably take a day or two to get sorted out, and some pages may not display properly during that time. Please be patient, and everything will be sorted out soon.
Meanwhile, feel free to watch the video screencast—something I’m planning on doing more often with the revamped site.
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
We’re back after a short hiatus while moving house, returning to work from paternity leave, and working on a few other projects took the focus away from keeping Design Meme updated. Now that things have settled down a bit, the site should see more regular updates once again.
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
For the past few days, thousands of blogs have focused on the topic of cyberbullying. This comes in the wake of Kathy Sierra cancelling her presentations at the ETech conference and withdrawing from posting on her popular blog due to threats of violence and offensive sexual statements and images posted by bloggers. I feel angered and disgusted by this, and similar patterns of behaviour that I’ve seen and heard about over the past few years.
This Friday May 30th is Stop Cyberbullying Day, and everyone is encouraged to think about ways to address this problem. Whether it’s the incredibly offensive and misogynistic comments many female bloggers receive, high-school students harassed with taunting text messages, or fake websites set up to try and slander innocent people—this is a problem that needs to be addressed.
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
You can now order web design gear from the Design Meme store. Current items include a head tag hat, a body tag shirt, a strong cup of coffee, and a bib to help your fussy eater subscribe to feed.
All products are 100% guaranteed to make you a better web designer… or at least look like one. 
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
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