Posts in the Web Design category

• Internet Explorer 6 hangs on

  11 June 2008 by Clive Walker

  Following an analysis by Shapeshed, I have carried out an analysis of the browsers used by website visitors to a local website that I maintain. The website in question gets around 5000 unique visitors per month, which is not a huge number admittedly, but it is a website used by the general public, rather than a particular audience with web design or geek leanings, so I reckon that it is partly indicative of websites that I build for clients. My main aim here was to see whether I could abandon web design support for Internet Explorer 6 any time soon.

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• On my bookshelf: Web Design and Marketing Solutions

  15 May 2008 by Clive Walker

  I am reading Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites by Kevin Potts at the moment. The book aims to provide advice for anyone who wants to build better business websites.

• YAML CSS framework

  25 April 2008 by Clive Walker

  These days, there are quite a few CSS frameworks popping up all over the place but YAML has an interesting and attractive CSS layout builder tool as part of its arsenal. This works really well and, in conjunction with the core YAML CSS framework, it allows you to build fixed and fluid CSS layouts with a few clicks of your mouse.

• Future of Web Design 2008 review

  18 April 2008 by Clive Walker

  Yesterday, I attended the Future of Web Design in London. I enjoyed the conference which featured presentations about all aspects of the web design process from inspiration, through user experience, to design and deployment, and promoting and maintaining your website. Here's my short review of the day, with apologies if I do not mention every single speaker. These are my highlights.

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• The Future of Web Design 2008

  25 March 2008 by Clive Walker

  I'm attending the Future of Web Design conference in London in a few weeks time and I'm hoping for an interesting day 'away from the office'.

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• Color scheming

  19 March 2008 by Clive Walker

  I am trying out ColorSchemer Studio on a 15-day trial at the moment and it seems to be a very useful little application. I think I'll be buying the software in a few days time.

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• Recent CSS reading

  28 February 2008 by Clive Walker

  Cameron Moll has started what promises to be an interesting and clever series of articles called The Highly Extensible CSS Interface.

• Turner Security Systems

  22 February 2008 by Clive Walker

  We have recently designed a new website for Turner Security Systems. The company operates from a base in Cranleigh, Surrey.

• Bigger thumbnail images?

  20 February 2008 by Clive Walker

  Screen resolutions seem to be getting bigger every year. A few years ago, 800 x 600 px was the most common resolution. Now, it's pretty usual for people to be viewing your carefully crafted website with resolutions of at least 1024 x 768 and, in a lot of cases, 1280 px or bigger.

• Fixed width or fluid layouts?

  18 February 2008 by Clive Walker

  I recently started work on a website that uses a fluid layout and it has caused me to think about the old fixed width vs fluid layout web design debate.

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