Entries
- August 26, 2005—Making use of web technology
- Have you ever discovered a new technique, technology, or design, that you wanted to use in your next design? Just so you can experiment with it, see how it works and maybe improve it. I know I like playing around...
- June 29, 2005—Link Styles and Information
- Here is my post del mes, enjoy. I was thinking about the state of the hyperlink lately. How it looks, what it communicates to us and what we expect it to do. A link can look as abstract (namely flash...
- May 18, 2005—Array Five
- Myself and IDI are proud to announce the new version of ARRAY was launched last night. If you are not familiar with ARRAY, it is an online application that gives corporations a way to provide personal websites to their sales...
- May 13, 2005—Javascript: no longer the ugly step-child
- I have worked with many web programmers in the past, none have really specialized in javascript or gave it much emphasis. They always gave me the impression that javascript wasn't ever the best solution to handling things on a web...
- April 21, 2005—Busy Forms
- There are many ways to show a form is processing once you click that submit button. You can change the submit button's text, disable the button, go to a new page, make a popup or any combination of the aforementioned....
- April 1, 2005—Typography—the new buzz word for the web
- Typography is gathering more and more interest this year. I think it is a positive move and will push more web designers to more creative "type think". Sifr has made it easier to have more beautiful type on the web....
- March 17, 2005—My favorites from SXSW
- SXSW was by all odds a spring of well water. Everybody there I met was friendly, fun, and loved talking about web design. This was one of my favorite aspects from SXSW. On the other side of SXSW here were...
- March 10, 2005—Keeping the Creative Juices Flowing
- I am always doing things that I cannot do; that's how I get to do them. —Pablo Picasso I always think it is a good thing to challenge yourself in any way. It keeps the creative juices flowing and one...
- February 24, 2005—Preparing for the Next Wave
- As the wave of CSS and xHTML wanes, what will the next big wave be in web development and design? In, fact, this wave has already started emerging, Google has been a big trend setter for it with their google...
- February 17, 2005—Setting the Table
- Don't be afraid to use tables in your html, that is for tabular data, tables are a great way of listing items in tabular format. Because many of us have been using tables for layout over the past many years...
- January 18, 2005—Coming Soon Rules
- Half way through January and I am finally catching up. Having just returned from a meeting with a client in New York City, and I would love to do something like Doug has done with his photos, but until that...
- December 15, 2004—The Copyright Year Dance
- Get out your 'to-do' list and make a note to change the copyright year notices on your clients' websites. Every new year brings with it the task of updating websites with the correct copyright year. As little of a task...
- December 9, 2004—A thousand pictures say a million words.
- If you have a digital camera I am sure you take a lot more photos than you did with a film camera. I have taken over 700 family photos this year and why not send all of those photos to...
- November 23, 2004—My Own CMS
- Over nine months in the making, my wife and I have created the perfect CMS—mostly my wife was involved in the creation process. Chase Matthew Scarbrough was born this last weekend on November 20th. He is doing great and brings...
- November 12, 2004—Looking Around the Corner at CSS3
- What is around the corner concerning CSS? This simple answer is CSS3—and it is looking awesome. Those of us with a modern browser can actually see some of the new psudeo-elements, properties, and selectors being proposed for CSS level...
- November 11, 2004—Competition—isn't it Great
- Right on the heals of MSN's new search Google announces that they have nearly doubled their index. It is good to know what your competition is doing and a strategize a a plan....
- October 14, 2004—My Favorite Javascripts for Designers
- Are there certain javascripts that you seem to always use from project to project? Lately, I have seen javascript being used more and more effectively on websites. For example, Gmail's user interface and Mike Davidson's sIFR technique. How we use...
- October 6, 2004—Bilingual with a Face Lift
- Acabé construiendo una version española del IAB sitio web. We also added a new look to the spanish version. What made this redesign easy was that all of the html structure stayed the same, all we did was switch the...
- September 29, 2004—Organizing The Garage
- Yes, I have been reorganizing the home page a bit. Why? Because it's a good idea to clean off your desk and drawers after a while and move stuff around. Nothing extreme, just little tweaks here and there....
- September 15, 2004—Wanted
- First, IDI and myself would like to wish the best of success to fellow web designer Dave Bennion as he moves on. He has taken a position at MWI, and we wish him good luck. It has been fun having...
- September 2, 2004—Web designers, are we there yet?
- Lessons learned from the 2004 Website Olympics left me with some encouraging results about standards and web design. I wanted to feature the Olympic websites because they would show us a fresh look at what and how web designers...
- August 25, 2004—Design—Summer Website Olympics
- Design is the apparatus today. I will cover just two elements of design, usability and 'look and feel'. If however, you think I have missed something you can take it up with the judges and the results may change—not like...
- August 20, 2004—Accessibility—Summer Website Olympics
- How accessible are the olympic websites? Millions of people will be visiting these pages so how well to they present their information to those that use screen readers, impaired vision, color-blindness, etc. So without further due, Accessibility, it will todays...
- August 19, 2004—Summer Website Olympics—The Speed Competition
- Designs have improved, techniques have gotten faster, how do our olympic websites fair this year. Our first competition will be web page speed. The contestants are as follows: Lane one—Athens 2004 website (I hope I get permission to link here),...
- August 11, 2004—Punctuation Details
- There are simple details in typography that can make your design look professional. Yes, professional, that descriptive word you hear from clients. These details take a little more effort to produce with HTML and we often forget them when...
- August 4, 2004—A Web Design Horror Story
- Many of us understand the need for web standards and its benefits? We do our best to embraced it and help others understand the need for it. The following is a story about what can happen when others are oblivious...
- July 21, 2004—Using Text-Overflow
- I am sure many of you have used the css property overflow. It works great for making divs scroll or getting that pixel perfect box. Well, I was rummaging through gmail's source code (which they have made quite difficult to...
- July 14, 2004—Language Matters with Error Messages
- Chapter three of Defensive Design for the Web is called Language Matters. It covers three important guidelines from the book. Don't use language that might be unfamiliar to your customers. Keep text brief and easy to understand. Be polite. So,...
- July 9, 2004—Draggable Inline Popups
- First of all, thank you everyone for the feedback on inline popups. Ruben pointed out that if you have a scrollbar present (your may have to resize your browser) that you can scroll past the overlay div. James from New...
- July 2, 2004—Inline Popups
- Some think that "popups" are inherently evil. I agree that in most cases they are, but I also agree there are instances that warrant the use of a popup. During the past month I have been working on a project...
- June 25, 2004—Currency Design
- I have always been intrigued with currency design. I found this database of world currency and was fascinated by the different designs and changes in design with currency. The size of a bill, its security features, the colors they...
- June 16, 2004—The Awesome Antiquated Look
- Erosion, decay, wear, age and/or use are all reasons we have that worn look. Cameron has shared with us some ways to replicate that wicked worn look. So I am going to show you one more way to skin...
- June 1, 2004—Get a Beta Start
- Many companies' products, google's gmail, amazon's a9.com, tribe.net, are choosing to launch their products beta these days. I recently had a project (Original Version is located here, see my "Web Design Horror Story" for more info), myself, launch beta this...
- May 21, 2004—The Survival of the Fittest in Web Design
- May has turned out to be quite the month for redesigns. I just finished the redesign of Dreambuilders.com, having been a few years since the last one I did. This one, of course, uses the finest ingredients, css and...
- May 13, 2004—Using the Transparent PNG as a Background Image
- Like so many others out there, I wish I could use those transparent PNG images in all of my projects without having to worry about Internet Explorer users. So when I went to redesign my site I looked at my...
- May 11, 2004—Blakems.com Redesigns
- Along with all of the other redesigns this week, blogger, mp3.com, Dave Shea's latest work and possible others this week. Blakems.com has a new look, with new features, and of course that "new design smell". I got down and dirty...
- May 6, 2004—Get Extra Storage
- My hotmail account is always reminding me to "get extra storage". Why, becuase I only have 2MB of storage and I am constantly deleting emails to save file storage. So I have now decided to get extra storage. The name...
