Archive for January, 2009

The Costs of Things, Then and Now

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Over at Dr. Mark Perry’s blog, he consistently posts about the costs of things then and now. The latest is the cost of a scientific calculator (hat tip to Alex Kirtland who posted this on his facebook.). You and I have at least one scientific calculator (I have three, and one financial calculator), and it’s interesting to see the costs drop over the years. The scientific calculator went from geek tool to something every high school student must have.

Why is this of interest to me? A few reasons actually: (more…)

New Pressyo now fully operational

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

As you may have noticed, Pressyo now sports a new look.

The new design is simpler, leaner and cleaner with the emphasis on the content, not the header or the footer. Do let us know what you think by e-mailing us.

Towards a faster loading Pressyo

The old pressyo design weights in at 312,555 bytes, while the new one now weights only 293,815 bytes. A saving of almost 6%. A good thing, considering much of the code thrown away is useless anyway. Also, by using a more standard and CSS-based rendering, we managed to NOT use JavaScript for rudimentary task like centering and rendering, which should be best to let CSS to deal with it.

Why do we sacrifice the rounded corners?

We strive for simplicity in the new design, therefore we think while beauty is important, being lean and fast loading is more important. But who knows, maybe one day we may have the rounded corners back, so stay tuned!

Finally, we hope you like the new design, as much as we like delivering it to you. Happy new year and keep Pressyo-ing!

Pressyo user experience team