Posts tagged “web design”
Built a cleaner, readable version of the Trinidad Express website after their redesign turned it into a font-tiny, ad-cluttered mess. Check out Re-Expressed.com.
Rearranged the site a bit: new clutter at the bottom including an experimental "recently bookmarked blogs" feature, the return of the calendar module, some IE7 fixes, and a helpful notice for IE6 users suggesting they upgrade.
Simplified the layout so it works on laptop screens. Still broken in IE6, but mostly there. Now if you'll excuse me, I accidentally had Harry Potter delivered to my office and I have reading to do.
Launched a new design and it's a bit rough around the edges. Fixing it. Sleep first.
Speaking at @media 2007. Finally!
A List Apart is surveying the web development profession. Take it if your job involves web work. Also: the AFA's anti-gay boycott survey is fraudulent, always showing the same fake results. Blog about their dishonesty.
I updated my voter registration online via an amusingly dodgy council website, only to be thanked not for completing the form, but for "using the Internet" in general. You're welcome, Islington. We'll keep using it.
I took a quiz and apparently I'm Scrivs. Flattering, given how awesome 9rules is.
I'm a web developer and heavy OUTeverywhere user, and the new interface is a disaster. The old design was innovative, bandwidth-efficient, and information-rich. Sacrificing usability for standards compliance is missing the point entirely. The interface wasn't broken. Bring it back.
CSS can't apply multiple background images to a single element, forcing designers to litter their HTML with empty, semantically meaningless divs just to achieve visual effects. The CSS Zen Garden proves the point: nearly every layout there is fixed-width as a direct result of this limitation.
Planet Seldo finally has a design. Dom immediately broke it by posting 2000 giant photos, but the layout handles it gracefully. Think of it as a preview of where Seldo.Com is heading visually.
Two old website designs I never used, but kind of wish I had. The yin yang one was totally impractical at over 1000 pixels wide, but I still have a soft spot for it.
A comic sells out hilariously, and BBC employees anonymously defend their site on a wiki complaint page, creating a bizarre, schizophrenic chorus of justifications and rebuttals.
Design serves multiple masters: first impressions, usability, functionality, and efficiency for power users. No site or OS has balanced all four; they pick a niche. Know your users, lean toward the right extreme, and measure accordingly. RSS hints at a solution: separate interfaces for separate needs.
Been exploring design sites and RSS readers. Got a good laugh from a Google rebrand showing "Britney Spears" as a search query, captioned "the sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips." Also rewatching Daria, which holds up.
Working on a new Art Deco front page design. It's more refined than previous sketches, wastes less space, and shows comments inline. Still very baroque, with some fun rotating decorative elements I'm calling "bedknobs." Worried it looks too much like every other MovableType blog out there.
I'm redesigning the site with art deco aesthetics, better content organization (splitting the blog into "Linkage" and "Thinkage"), and modern code. I've been sketching layouts but can't settle on one. Here are my doodles. Tell me what you think.
Picked up Douglas Adams' posthumous collection and rediscovered what a brilliant, well-read mind he had, especially on technology and UI design. His rule: if it needs a manual, it's too hard to use. I agree completely. Also, it's got me thinking harder about Seldo.Com 3.0.
I gave my friend Mikey a blog whether he wanted one or not. Anyone want to help with his CSS?
Matt's got a new website. Go check it out.
Catching up on a backlog of links: everyone copies search engine winners (now Google), the Google Dance explained, IQ tests during exam revision are a bad idea, the Daily Mail is racist (shocker), rebranding the Tories, barcodes as art, X2 beats Matrix Reloaded, and more.
Pleix.net is a trove of arty, satirical, and unsettling video art. My favourite is the sarky Pig Corp piece.
BBC News redesigned their site and it's a mess. It looks like a worse version of CNN, which is itself losing to Fox News. I'd already moved to The Times for its cleaner layout, and this just confirms I made the right call.
Working on a site redesign that looks great, but the gruntwork is killing my motivation. Also: everyone needs a naked cowboy in their life. Crazy people are the best.
Matt Elton's site has great content, even if the design is a mess (thanks, Dreamweaver). He's inspired me to write humor again. Also, he linked to me first, so here's my reciprocal nod. And Matt: I wrote about science vs religion before you did.
