There is a new design competition started by the Weblog Tools Collections that has stirred up a little curiosity. This is design, ala CSS Zen Garden style, will ask designers to create styles for the new version of the WordPress Sandbox theme from PlainText.org. That…
Category: Design
At some point or another almost all businesses will utilize the power of the web to help sell their product or service to a wider online market. How do you go about doing this? One of the hardest things a designer has to do is…
One of my least favorite things in web design are all graphical css menus. I utterly despise them, and the reasons are endless. Depending on what is involved, they can be a real pain to make accessible at times. They tend to require a strong…
As a change of pace, there is a great resource article that covers tips for CLIENTS rather than for the designers. Definitely some gems in here, and it would be an amazing thing if all clients automatically did these (not that it will happen –…
There’s a great article on DailyBlogTips that is called ’43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid.’ The article starts with 43, but the user comments bring it up a bit more. Lots of great suggestions in that list. Most of them are things that we…
If you have visited the blog lately, you may have noticed that the design has changed rather significantly. It’s not entirely done, and I’m tweaking things as I come across them, but I’m rather pleased with how it’s coming along so far. The theme is…
Recently I posted an article which talked about the reasons to avoid using javascript navigation. The article listed reasons, but not alternatives, so that’s what I’d like to spend some time talking about. Secondary Navigation I feel that the best alternative to javascript navigation is…
Over time many bad web design ideas have been dropped or lost favour, including unnecessary splash screens and unwieldy framesets, for the good of the web user. However, one web design bad habit that persists is the JavaScript Dynamic Navigation. This is bad news for…
Why? I think that has been the question echoing over and over in my mind. Why? Why? Why was this choice made? Before I continue ranting about how Microsoft seems to get a thrill out of coming up with one developer-frustrating bit of news each…
After you’ve used Firefox for a while, you may have the desire to tinker around with the userChrome.css file and tweak it a bit for your likes or dislikes. Unfortunately, finding the userChrome.css is a bit confusing for people – particularly when the file doesn’t…