CalPoly

Check out the new website for the University of Michigan Library. Among many things, I like the approach of the site-wide Search or Browse mechanism, and the Solr-powered MLibrary Search results seem pretty snappy too.

A recent post from their Blog for Library Technology introduces the site with their approaches & techniques.

Cal Poly is #201 overall, but is ranked #27 among public colleges in Forbes 2009 best colleges listing. Best of the CSU’s! Thanks to Cal Poly Public Affairs.

The latest photo to join the library’s collection of web splash imagery. I’m slightly smitten with it.

 Dante, the newest student assistant in our legacy of wonderful student assistants, shared a cool link with me today: SFMOMA Artscope. A cool interface to browse their collection, finding new things, discovering old favorites, etc. Reminds me of the old days of loupes and light boxes. Very cool and fun.>> SFMOMA Artscope 

Wow! I am more than ever glad I have a membership with Netflix now. Check out their culture slide deck. Not only was this a great read, but I also found it rather motivating. Don’t miss this.

» Netflix Culture Slide Deck

Very cool: Flickr launches new search functionality today. I’m personally excited because I was part of the beta testers for this and have been using it for many months. I got so used to the display and features that I found myself dumbfounded the other day when searching while not logged in as my flickr account — what happened to my beautiful search? (Quickly logged in so I could go back to my mad searching ways.).

» Read about the new search on the Flickr Blog or try it yourself.

There are a million tutorials out there for showing you how to do X to your web site. Actually, sometimes it can be a little overwhelming. How do you choose the right tutorial? (Personally, I tend to err on the side of lynda.com; good tutorials you can bank on.)

Net.Tuts is an arm of the Tuts+ body of tutorial sites and it tends to lean to advanced topics (well, advanced to me — I don’t do a lot of scripting or programming and it tends to focus on that part of web dev) (and by “a lot” i mean any). I subscribe to this site (both monetarily and RSS-wise) and recommend it.

I bring today’s tutorial to the Autologic blog because it is a GREAT tutorial for a beginner. Want to build a nice-looking web site and don’t even know where to start? This tutorial is for you. Even better, it is based on standards and will get you habituated in writing good html/css as well.

» Design and Code Your First Web Site 

Happy Cog merges with AirBag. They are keeping the Happy Cog name (smart). I’ve been a fan/follower of Zeldman since the 90s and always root for his success. For those who don’t know, he’s the vision behind A List Apart and WaSP and Happy Cog redesigned the New York Public Library site. Go Zeldman! Go Happy Cog!

But Does It Float has a collection of beautiful ex libris bookplates (redundant?). So gorgeous!

Think Vitamin has an intro/how-to blog post on using and becoming familiar with Type Kit — the new tool that allows web designers to stretch beyond the system fonts to bring real typography to the web.

» Getting Started with Typekit on Think Vitamin