Category Archives: UI development
Using Google Web Fonts
Google Web Fonts API now makes it even easier to use web fonts on websites. The days of choosing between Arial or Verdana are long gone. Hundreds of available Google Web Fonts are totally free and open source. The interface is simple and intuitive. The @font-face CSS stylesheet is automatically generated on Google’s end. All [...]
Instructions vs. Usability.
There are things we do without thinking. For one, flushing the toilet. People usually don’t expect specific instructions before carrying out this relatively simple task.
Using TABLE for layout
I think designers and developers alike are realizing using HTML TABLE for some layout is a smart thing to do after all. Some wise usage of TABLE based layout is popping up everywhere recently including Google Apps. Below is a Firebug screen capture of parts of Google Calendar where it uses TABLE for layout. I [...]
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Design Inspiration
No one is an island. All graphic/web designers need to be inspired from other designers every now and then. Here is a nice collection of newish design trends that some might call ‘web 2.0′ like look and feel. http://www.instantshift.com/2009/10/06/77-inspirational-example-of-pricing-page-designs
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Get to know WordPress, but learn other stuff too
I’d like to single out yet another skill-set a web designer must be aware of. It’s WordPress. The enormous popularity of the WordPress platform along with blogging and simple content management has transformed the way we build lightweight websites. It’s unlikely that a large scale site or application would be built entirely of WordPress but [...]
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Picasso had it easy
Oh yeah. He just created art as he saw fit. If Picasso thought blue should be the color, blue it was. No one questions why. If he decides a woman’s right eye should be twice as large as her left, that’s okay too. When he thought a nostril of a goat would be a good [...]
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Complainers of the world unite!
For some of us that have been writing HTML since the 90s, it’s easy to lay back and say “it won’t get any better than this” as far as front-end development and client-side technologies are concerned. We have seen first-hand how the craft has improved over the years from the primitive HTML tags, faulty browsers, [...]
So you wanna be a Web Designer?
Many, many years ago, a web designer was someone who came up with somewhat believable Photoshop renderings of what a webpage could look like. Sometime later a web designer was expected to know some HTML along with pretty good Photoshop skills. A few years later, a web designer had to have some javascript knowledge, have [...]
Is Flash Dead?