About Justin Cox
Justin Cox is a twenty-something youth minister who dabbles in web design. This site is his window on the world where he mindlessly chatters about his various interests. He's going to stop talking in third person now.
Hopefully you'll find something enjoyable. Perhaps a classic posting?
Posts Tagged with ‘design’
Why the new Facebook Sucks
If you’re a member of Facebook you might have noticed the bar atop every page lately announcing the “new Facebook.” If you haven’t clicked “try it now” then you should, just to see what a horrible mess the whole thing is. If you’re not that adventurous then just keep reading and see what you’re not [...]
Justin Sans
The other day I was designing a tshirt for the youth group’s upcoming retreat (yes, tshirts are back for those interested). I was searching the internet looking for a particular font and stumbled across Fontifier, a site that translates your handwriting into a TrueType font. I’ve seen these services before but this one only cost [...]
Chinese Food, Twitter, and a Porno?
I was picking up dinner from the local Chinese take-out and I came to a realization. Every single Chinese take-out place is exactly the same. I’m sure if you think about it, you can picture it: There is a counter about five feet high with the cashier behind it. Above the counter is a menu [...]
Corked 2.0: The Journey
One of the things about being a designer is that you’re almost never 100% satisfied. You can endlessly tweak positions, colors, and fonts if you’re not careful. About two months ago when I created the previous theme, Coloured, I was mostly happy with it. I thought it was a pretty interesting idea based on, of [...]
A picture from the bathroom?
Normally you don’t post pictures of your bathroom online for the world to see. It’s one of those things you typically keep to yourself. And if you were to get inspiration for a website design wile being in the bathroom your surely wouldn’t share that with the world. Normally. Since when am I normal?
A week [...]
Happy New Year
The winds of change blew in a new year and a new Mindless Chatter design. This is probably the simplest worst design I’ve ever made but hey, simple is good right?
It’s now 2008 and that means there is a new slate, a new chance to make resolutions that might be kept for the next week [...]
The Birth of a Website
It’s an age old question, what came first, the website or the design, and to be honest I don’t really know the answer. But I can tell you that I’ve recently redesigned The Skylight site and thought it’d be kind of neat to put the process down on paper screen. So if you’ve ever wanted [...]
Pimpin’ my blog
I’ve been pimping my little corner of the world to a few CSS design galleries of late. Surprisingly, the galleries are responding. The first was back in February on a site called CSS Tux: The best dressed sites on the web. Screenalicious picked me up sometime thereafter. Then today CSS Mania picked up ol’ Mindless [...]
I Might Be a Hardcore Designer
I’ve been doing a lot of web design lately. I’m working on two sites simultaneously and am waiting for a pre-fab design (I know, but it’s this guy who designed a brochure for work and it was cheaper to have him design the site then buy the artwork) so that I can set it up. [...]
April 5th is Naked Day!
No, this isn’t some lame April Fool’s joke. April 5th is the annual CSS Naked Day, a day to help promote web standards. I’ve talked about web standards a little before, basically that my site conforms to them, but what better way to prove a point then by getting naked (isn’t that what PETA and [...]