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Six Useful Tips for Web Designers and Developers
We’ve compiled six useful tips for all you web designers and developers out there. They cover various topics including: accessibility, SQL, web developer plugins for Firefox, HTML emails, design and jQuery. Feel free to disagree or add your own in the comments below. If you’d like to submit a tip to be considered for future articles, [...]
Continue reading...The Evolution of a Website Design
13. May 2009
Last week I was presented with a design brief out of the blue. It was to design and build a site to promote our new Stack Overflow DevDays event that's happening this October. So I thought it might be interesting to share with you the various stages of design the site went through before arriving at the finished design.
Continue reading...Paul Boag: The Demise of the Website
12. May 2009
At the Future of Web Design in London, Ryan Carson grabbed Paul Boag for a quick chat. We covered the “demise of the website”, important tips for web designers and how to sell your design skills. Here are the major takeaway points from the interview: We’re approaching the “demise of the website”. Your website is no longer [...]
Continue reading...Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard
6. May 2009
As part of my talk at the ‘Future of Web Design’ conference in London last week I played this short film. It’s basically sped up footage of me making my slides for my talk. Why I did it I think it’s interesting to see the design process as it happens. Quite a lot of the footage shows [...]
Continue reading...Jim Coudal: Copywriting, Inspiration and Working Farmer Hours
5. May 2009
During FOWD London, I grabbed Jim Coudal and asked him a few questions, including “Where are you finding inspiration right now?”, “How do you make time for creativity?” and “What’s the best career tip you can give web designers?”. We’ve also released the MP3 of his talk at the conference (video coming shortly). Couple quick points: If someone [...]
Continue reading...Handy Tips from Tipster
1. May 2009
There have been a ton of helpful and interesting tips posted to Tipster recently, so I thought we’d pull a few out for you all (and give the submitters a bit of well-deserved publicity). Topics that we’re covering are: MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, JQuery, life hacks and server admin. MySQL Geo Search Here’s a MySQL statement to [...]
Continue reading...To Spec or Not to Spec
28. April 2009
There’s been much debate of late regarding speculative or ’spec’ work and the associated problems (and benefits) of it. Blogs have been buzzing for a while with negative rants by some high-profile designers regarding the practice and sites such as the infamous NO!SPEC project have gained backing from some big names which in turn has encouraged [...]
Continue reading...Whatever happened to the Art in Design?
15. April 2009
With FOWD (Future of Web Design) London only a couple of weeks away we thought it would be a good opportunity to look back to the last Future of Web Design event which took place in New York in November 2008. Mike Kus, designer at Carsonified, gave a quick fire 15 minute talk entitled “Whatever happened [...]
Continue reading...White Space: How to Get it ‘Right’
24. March 2009
Space is important in layout. Space can be created by content, such as text, images, lists, logos etc, or it can be created by the space in-between content, called negative space, or whitespace. Space can be passive; a by-product of the layout process. Or, it can be active; there for a reason, to guide the [...]
Continue reading...44 Web Designers to Follow on Twitter
10. March 2009
Last week I posted 40 Web Developers to follow on Twitter. I thought it would be interesting to follow it up with the top web designers on Twitter. We chose the folks on this list because they’ve made a significant contribution to web design or are currently involved in interesting projects. We know you won’t [...]
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