There is a fold
‘There’s no fold! There’s no fold!’ cried the web designer. Well, I’ve got news for you pal: of course, there’s a fold.
Archive for the ‘Web Design’ category
Bye bye one column article page
Like any self-respecting blogger, when I make a small realign to my blog’s design I feel I must make a big song and dance about it. So here goes…
FOWD review
This Thursday I went to my first ever conference, Future of Web Design (FOWD) in London. I’m notoriously hard to please and I can get very annoyed when I’m told things I already know. Anyway, here’s what I thought of it… I liked it. Actually, I think I really liked it.
Web agency Blue Flavor redesign website
Hugely popular web agency Blue Flavor, have this week released a redesign of their business website – blueflavor.com. It looks great but, it seems to be missing a couple of big things: 1: the company name in a prominent position and 2: a mini-description of what they do.
Welcome to a world of yellow
No, you are not seeing things. Yes, I have redesigned and it is bright yellow.
My name is Phil and I like to design websites
Contrary, to what the design of this website may suggest, I think I’m at the stage where I’m a pretty decent web designer but feeling as confident in my design abilities, as I do now is a relatively new thing.
The value of front-end web development
Front-end web development (that is the writing of HTML,CSS and JavaScript) has been the talk of the town in the blogosphere this week. People have been complaining about Internet Explorer 8′s new rendering engine switching meta tag and people have also been discussing the merits of front-end web development and whether it is worthy of the same pay as back-end web development (PHP/.NET/RoR etc).
IE 8 passes the Acid Test
Hot on the heels from IE7, IE8 will be (probably) be available in 2008 – it will pass the Acid Test 2.
BBC Beta testing a new design
Yesterday, via their blog, the BBC announced a beta testing of new BBC homepage design, so I checked it out and… I like it.
Introducing ‘Dylan’, a new WordPress theme.
This past week, I have been working hard on creating a new generic WordPress theme to be released for free to the community. This theme is called Dylan.
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Email standards project
Have you tried to create a HTML email recently. It’s not easy.
How not to write a web design CV/resume
Writing a CV (resume) for a web design job isn’t too dissimilar to writing a CV for any other job. So don’t try to be too clever.
As my last function as Web Coordinator for JJB Sports, I was asked (along with a colleague) to find a new web designer. Some of the CVs I received were truly awful so I’ve summarised some of the biggest mistakes people made in the hope less people will make the same errors.
My HTML/CSS templating system
When creating pages with HTML/CSS I like to make it as speedy as possible for both production and future maintenance. I make this possible with a very simple PHP template system.
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How to explain what a web designer does to your clients
There seems to a minor misconception amongst clients who hire web designers as to what a web designer does and in particular what all the different disciplines in web design/development are.
Your success as web designer depends on your ability to communicate to those people what you will do for their money.
How to convince your friends, family & clients to start blogging
I recently sat in a pub and tried to convince a good friend of mine why they could/should blog. Their point of view was that they couldn’t fathom why anyone would want to read what they had to say. My point is that everyone has something interesting to say but, they don’t necessarily know what that something is.
