Author Archives: Matt

Web Standards and IE 8 Part 2

The IE Team has just changed their mind about and decid­ed to pro­mote web stan­dards by default in IE 8. Web stan­dards-lovers every­where sing hal­lelu­jah, while incom­pe­tent design­ers will no doubt scream murder. 

Whitespace Primer

White­space is a key design con­cept that makes the dif­fer­ence between a great design and a decent design. Here I explain the basics of what white­space is and how it impacts a design.

Web Standards and IE 8

Inter­net Explor­er and web stan­dards have nev­er been the best of friends. IE 8 pro­pos­es some non-stan­dard behav­ior in the ulti­mate hopes to pro­mote bet­ter web stan­dards. Is this the way for­ward or a painful regression?

Automattic Raises $29.5 Million

Automat­tic, the com­pa­ny behind the WordPress.com ser­vice and open-source blog­ging soft­ware, just announced a sec­ond round of fund­ing. What are the implications?

#7 in Google Search!

After a mere week online, Soma Design now shows up on the front page of a Google search for soma design. We’re #7 and hope­ful­ly mov­ing up!