Fluidity and Text Sizing

Fluid / liquid layouts are definitely considered the ‘ideal’ design type right now, and I can’t agree more. I much prefer a fluid design over a set layout. (Yes, I’m aware that the design for this blog is a fixed layout, I’m getting around to…

CSS Reboot Update

So I’ve not posted in a couple of weeks, and that was primarily due to the sudden influx of things that attacked me at once. One thing that did go relatively well was the CSS reboot for a site I did, LovecraftCountry.com (which I tend…

New Template – Midnight Rainforest

I’ve just completed working on a new template called Midnight Rainforest. This template is free, open-source, following only the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. There are two versions of the site template done at this point. One is a three column and one is a…

Skimming & Blog Summaries

As a web developer, I think that one of the easiest pitfalls to run into is assuming that the content on your page is as interesting to your readers as it is to you. Whether we are talking about features, or tools, or images –…

Misleading Resolution

This is one of those topics that bears mentioning periodically – screen resolution statistics are misleading. Often when people are thinking of creating a fixed-width layout, they are doing so due to what their statistics are telling them. If statistics are saying that 99.5% of…

Design Issues

As I’ve complained about before, I have issues with artistic design. The more I think on it, the more I’m convinced that I must have been attacked by an art supply kit as a small child and been left mentally scarred toward anything artisitc. I…

Finished Projects

I’ve been very busy the last couple of weeks trying to work on three new site designs, hence the slight lack of posting this past week. Whatever possessed me to get myself in the position to have two competition sites due on the same day……