position: relative;

I’m always interested in finding new ways to make footers more useful and attractive. Christian Watson had a nice article featuring 76 (!) examples of approaches to footers. A lot of good ideas here.

I’m a fan of Boagworld’s fun podcast.

Smashing Magazine recently had an article on all kinds of podcasts that might be of interest to you as a web professional:  read it here.

A very productive May so far – two sites finished and launched, two new clients with signed contracts for mid-sized projects, several new hosting clients, and my business site now has a pagerank of 6.  I got a Blackberry this week and am now wondering why I waited so long. And I’m be going to the WebVisions conference in Portland in two weeks.

http://twistori.com

You can’t post on it though – it’s compiled from Twitter posts and they use Summize to pull out the relevant words.

The hand-drawn clock from Yugo Nakamura – I read an article about him last night and am looking more deeply into his web/visual work. I found it interesting that his background is in landscape design!

An inspiring look at some really cool pixel-based designs.

These were taken at Fossil Creek Regional Open Space and Running Deer Natural Area in Fort Collins. All were taken with my new 170-300mm lens (equivalent of 340-600mm on my Olympus E-510).

Found a nice color tool this morning – it extracts multiple color palettes from any image you upload or from a random image it pulls from Flickr.