design for the web

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

26/10/2010 4 Comments

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greenpeace project

22/10/2010 1 Comment

greenpeace project brief

project title: greenpeace

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more CSS positioning

22/10/2010 Comments Off

image: screenshot of ‘Little Boxes‘ page on noodleincident, Owen Briggs © 2001

Now onto CSS positioning – not the easiest technique to understand. I found this one a big hurdle in my early days… So be patient, keep experimenting and reading and you’ll get there :)
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the art of tiled backgrounds

21/10/2010 Comments Off

patterns © Zara Taylor 2007

Let's practice some Photoshop and create some beautiful background textures. While a plain background often works perfectly well for a lot of websites - textures and patterns when designed to purpose can certainly add something to a design. Next time you browser the web - pay attention to how the background fits into the design: colour and variation, texture, shading and patterns. There are some stunning examples of backgorunds out there -- please share your findings via the comments below :)

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Hardboiled Webdesign

19/10/2010 Comments Off

There are authors who can write books which just inspire you and Andy Clarke is one of them :) Never shy to push boundaries and not worried about upsetting people - Andy will demonstrate with beautiful design and beautiful code how to produce visual stunning websites. As he did some time ago with Transcending CSS.

Today, Andy together with the Five Simple Steps team released his new book "Hardboiled Webdesign". continue reading ➤

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A web sized education problem?

18/10/2010 Comments Off

Just got back from a great evening at the LondonWebStandards – with 2 excellent talks from Anna Debenham and Chris Mills who spoke about the state of web education at the moment. It was quite a sad picture – not enough changes within education for web, outdated practices being taught, inflexible school systems – a sad state of affairs.

However, there are changes in progress and lots of sharing and improvement happening – so I thought I’d share the slides from Chris which sum up the main points nicely and include some references to the solutions being put in place – a light at the end of the tunnel :)

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