Help me with my resume

Mar 9th, 2008 | General, Web Design | No Comments

My resume is finally ready for the web. However, I’m interested in your opinion and criticism, so please contact me with your thoughts.

Also, for your time-wasting pleasure, I give you: Faker Baker BS3 . Anyone’s who’s ever used B&T knows this screen all too well. Now, all you have to do is point your browser to brad.hawidu.com/bt and you’ll instantly look busy! For you pros out there, the color is #47768e.

Is it Opposite Day?

Feb 15th, 2008 | Web Design | No Comments

www.isitoppositeday.com

My parody of the famous http://www.isitchristmas.com/ website.

IS it Opposite Day? Think about it.

Post To Blog Gadget

Dec 24th, 2007 | Web Design | 2 Comments

Add to Google
Hey everybody. I hope that my relentless testing this afternoon didn’t bog down your aggregator. Anyways, I made a little gadget that communicates to independently-hosted blogs via xml-rpc. You can read all about it here, and also add it. Hope SOMEBODY besides me finds it useful. Oh, and all the source is available at that link too. Enjoy!

The Best Thing since a Better Mousetrap

Jul 5th, 2007 | Facebook, Web Design | No Comments

Okay, so it’s been about four days since the application launched (btw, I swear there will be non-application blog posts someday!), and things are going overwhelmingly well. I’ve gotten a lot of feedback, mostly positive. My upgrade schedule is pretty-well set, but I’m looking to see if people would do things in a different order:

  1. Get the digg-like interface for resources up and running. This will allow anyone to contribute to the resources, vote on them, and add comments. The top five will be displayed on the “canvas page,” with a link to the full listing. The universal resources will still be at the top (probably), but any catalog, database, etc. can be added.
  2. The profile badge will have the newest and/or recently popular resources instead of the (hilarious) video from Weird Al’s movie, UHF.
  3. An additional section will be added that will link to an Information Literacy wiki (If a good one aimed at non-librarians already exists, please link to it in the comments) in colloquial language to help patrons help themselves.
  4. Some sort of utilization of the invite notification system provided by Facebook. This will be aimed at getting users. As expected, the initial users of the application have (mostly) been librarians. This is positive for a few reasons, and useful because the infrastructure is there for patrons with Facebook-based questions.
  5. Tweak my database of librarians with additional email addresses, homepage URLs, and other useful data — currently-registered librarians can easily update, while new librarians will automatically have the option.
  6. More stuff is on the way, especially since the feedback and suggestions have been wonderful!

Note: I get off work today at 9:00PM, and will be burning some hardcore midnight oil to get these launched as quickly as possible. Please be patient as things come into operation over the weekend. Thanks!

You can see what I’m up to by adding the alpha app — http://apps.facebook.com/fblibrariantest/

Also, look out for the open Application Data, and eventually the open source.

(Lastly, on a personal note — My packrat mentality makes it insanely difficult to weed “my” collection. Just wanted to get that off my chest.)

Widget/Gadget rant #2

Jun 21st, 2007 | Web Design | No Comments

Let me start with the bottom line: You should make a widget for your site. It should:

  • be very lightweight in terms of images and text content.
  • have the most useful and original aspects of your site included.
  • create incentive to click over to the full site
  • follow one of the most-common (netvibes, iGoogle) form factors
  • be standards-compliant XHTML

What!? XHTML? The common view of widgets and gadgets are the XML + AJAX + web → continue reading

Widget/Gadget rant #1

Jun 21st, 2007 | Web Design | No Comments

Widgets and Gadgets are a pervasive phenomenon. As such, it’s strange that they’re so under-developed. That’s my complaint.

The solution: widgetize based on use. This is how I lay out my iGoogle, and it makes sense: → continue reading