Posts in the Web Design category
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Sitting on a Perch
05 June 2009 by
This week has seen the launch of a new website content management system [CMS] called Perch from web development agency edgeofmyseat. It promises to be an interesting CMS because it is intended to be a small system that you can set-up quickly on an existing website.
Yes, yes, I know that a larger CMS like WordPress or Textpattern [two of my favourites] are often the ‘solutions’ that are suggested when the subject of client website updates are discussed but, equally, not everyone wants a system like that for small website changes. I am thinking of small business brochure-type websites here. In these cases, Perch may be just the job.
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Learning more about CSS
29 May 2009 by
Articles about unfamiliar or new CSS techniques are great for expanding your CSS knowledge and there’s always the chance that you will need to use the methods in a client’s project. Here are a couple of CSS methods that I saw recently. Why not try one of these or something else new in your website projects?
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Looking at grids for layout
05 May 2009 by
Over the last few days, I have been reading up in more detail on the use of grids for website layout. Using a grid does not mean that your design will look ‘all boxy’ [for example, you can still have curved corner shaped elements] but means that the layout elements on your page are placed according to an accurately measured grid.
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Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks
20 March 2009 by
A new book from Sitepoint hit the shelves this week. Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks is “an easy-to-follow guide that reveals the secrets of how to build your own breathtaking web interfaces from scratch.
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Vertical centering with CSS
08 March 2009 by
Aligning an element so that is is vertically centered should be something that is quite easy but CSS makes it more difficult than it should be!
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Organising website content sensibly
21 February 2009 by
We were asked to design a new website for The Professional Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine for 2009. The new website launched last week.
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Interesting links this week
15 February 2009 by
We often come across new applications and web stuff. In no particular order, here’s a few interesting links that we found this week.
Lovely Charts is a free online diagramming application that looks very easy to use. Check out the screencast for a demo. If you regularly create diagrams like wireframes, flow charts, site maps, and organisational charts, this might be the online application for you.
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Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG2) explained
27 January 2009 by
WCAG2 are an update for the original WCAG1 accessibility guidelines. In fact, the original initiative was published in 1999 and the finalization of WCAG2 at the end of 2008 was well overdue. However, although this is a worthy initiative, I have found it hard to digest and understand the new version because it is a very long document [even though the authors have tried to help with an Understanding WCAG2 document].
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Add a query string to your style sheet link for cache busting
21 January 2009 by
I was looking at the UX London website recently and I noticed that their CSS files are referenced with a query string like this.
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Reviewing your personal websites
16 January 2009 by
If you are like me, you may run or manage several personal websites in addition to those that you create or manage for paying clients. I like to review the personal stuff every year just to make sure that my master plan for Internet world domination is working. Only kidding! However, it is still useful to review your personal websites and these are the points I normally consider during the review process.
Note: You may have different goals but the objectives of my review are to determine whether to continue with each website and assess how much work might be required during the year.