This is the question I’ve been tossing around with a few people lately, and it seems to be a relatively important thing to consider right now. But before I get into the discussion, let me define what (for these purposes) we’re considering a ‘backend system’:…
Category: Design
Well if you have only been reading in your feed reader, you may not have noticed that the site has a distinctly more… pink look. No, it’s not an accident. I promise my daughter didn’t attack my graphics with her favorite color. Indeed, it’s actually…
So that’s the question I’m pondering today. With the advent of the new Parallels Desktop for Mac, will Mac users who’ve clung to their IE 5.5 ditch the legacy browser for the ability to run the newer versions of IE through Parallels? I’m really not…
With the advent of what appears to be a ‘media boom’ on the Internet, I think it’s time for a reminder about accessible media on the web. Where new ideas like Dovetail, Yahoo! Current, Google Current, Memocast, Videoegg, MSN Soapbox, AOL Video, and tons more..…
They say that websites should retain a constant look and feel, that they should have a flow that users recognize, that they should never change drastically so that the user does not know how to use the site. I realize this. I recognize it. I…
In our last step we did quite a lot of cleaning up the content section, and now we’re going to put the finishing touches on the design in this step. We’re going to add the little arrow to the menu area that I mentioned back…
In Step 5 we mostly focused on fixing the header so that it better resembled our inspiration design. We added the formatting for the regular paragraph text on the sidebar, and placed some extra text in there also. We realized at the end of our…
Just a brief update. I have made one of the major changes to the menu generator 1.0 that it sorely needed. That was, of course, to add a full range selection of colors to choose from. Utilizing a great javascript widget I have been able…
In the last step we worked on making our header look more like the inspiration design. We added the decorative horizontal green and yellow line, and now we’re ready to keep moving along and adding some more refinement to the design. In this step, we’ll…
In the last step, we worked on creating our menu to enhance the look of the design and bring it yet another step closer to our inspiration piece. The aspect we are going to work on in this step is going to be our header…