Just in case you’re unclear of what everyone is screaming on Twitter, Plurkm blogs, comments and etc, TGIF simply means Thank God It’s Friday. The phrase represents the optimism one will have as he looks forward to a weekend spent doing the things he likes (for most people, that is). Before I start the post, [...]
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Webdesigner Depot published another awesome compilation – this time, they showcased 40 excellent logos created with Helvetica. Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann in Switzerland, making it a 50+ year old typeface that is still growing strong today.
Jean-Baptiste Jung shares 8 ingenious jQuery-based javascript solutions on CatsWhoCode.comto circumvent the common CSS problems. While CSS is a semantically correct way of styling your webpages, not all popular browsers (like IE6, I know this comes very naturally for a designer) support CSS3 and there’s always this problem of cross-browser compatibility.
Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. You’ve heard about tilt-shift miniature faking photography before. Basically, the photographer is trying to emulate what you’ll see when viewing a miniature model set – with a very narrow depth of field plus a colour-wise souped up version of the scene (usually model designers love colour saturation a [...]
As javascript libraries becomes increasingly popular among designers and website visitors alike, your daily visitors are now expecting more than just static pages – they would be thrilled to see interactive, fluid pages. In 2006 A List Apart published an article on the holy grail of webdesign, which involves coding for fluid layouts in CSS. With the popularity of javascript libraries like jQuery, Soh Tanaka has written an excellent tutorial on teaching us how to incorporate fluid display options on our pages – allowing visitors to switch between different forms of display (think iTunes libraries). An interesting concept that is actually very simple, and can be easily done with a few lines of jQuery and CSS.
Sorry for my long unexplained absence (of which I’m trying to make up for now) – it all started with a big-ass diarrhea case on Tuesday evening, followed by fever that very night and then it developed into a full-blown illness taking care of everything I can think of – vomitting, diarrhea, fever, muscle aches, [...]
A huge CONGRATULATIONS to designer Juanma and his wife, Gabrielle, for safely and successfully delivering Biel to this little world of ours! They can be seen beaming, sporting a hugeeeee grin from ear to ear in this very warm family photo. Here’s a message from me for baby Biel ;) Ah, the advantages of having [...]
