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Tagged: Web design

May 1st, 2009

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jQuery Calendar

Full size drag and drop jQuery calendar. Awesome!

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April 28th, 2009

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15 e-books for Web Design

15 e-books for web design and development.

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April 24th, 2009

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Time to move past 960?

Cameron Moll wonders if it’s time to start pushing site width beyond the 960px threshold. 960px fits comfortably in a monitor set to 1024×768, but now many people are getting screens with much higher resolution. I like 960px, I think I’ll stick with it for awhile….

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April 22nd, 2009

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designm.ag

Wow – I keep coming across these web design blogazines. This time it’s designm.ag.

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April 22nd, 2009

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Cúfon

Cúfon is a text replacement technique, just like sIFR, but it doesn’t require Flash. Looks pretty easy to implement. I’m going to keep my eye on this one, it looks promising.

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April 20th, 2009

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Death to IE6?!

Finally, Microsoft is dropping IE6 support! At the end of April, Microsoft will begin offering IE8 as a automatic update to IE6 and IE7 users. This calls for a celebration.

Internet Explorer 6 has long been a fly in the web designer’s ointment. It takes longer to develop for IE6, its loaded with bugs, etc. The drawbacks have been well-documented. Some big companies like Apple, 37signals and now Google, have dropped IE6 support awhile back and are encouraging users to use Safari, Firefox or Chrome. Robert Nyman has written a nice post on his blog outlining some of problems with IE6 and why we should stop supporting it.

Web designers have gone back and forth about whether or not to continue to support it on the sites they build. There are two groups of people still using IE6 – users who don’t know about other browsers, and users trapped in corporate settings that won’t allow individuals to upgrade. So while many people may want to upgrade, they can’t. I hope with Microsoft pushing IE8 as an automatic update, all users will be able to upgrade.

I think its important to understand what will happen to an IE6 user if they enter your site, but I don’t think IE6 users need to get the exact same experience as users with current browsers. As much as I’d like to block IE6 users entirely, I don’t think that’s a workable option.

On a side note – I’ve noticed a number of sites specifically decidated to bringing IE6 down. Here are a few I’ve come across:

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April 14th, 2009

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You Should Be Living v2.0

V2.0 is freshly baked and just out of the oven, its still even a little warm.  The new site is finally up and running!

The Design

I really enjoy seeing the design process when other people update their sites. I like seeing the initial sketches and the transformation to wireframes and then finally on to the fully completed design. Unfortunately, I can’t show off that process because I skipped the sketches and wireframes and went straight to Photoshop. I usually don’t do that, but because it is my own site, I already knew what I wanted! So what you see on the live site, is basically what I had in Photoshop.

The Backend – WordPress

This time around, I built the site using WordPress. This was my first really big project creating a fully custom site, using WordPress as a CMS, not just a blogging tool. As someone used to using ExpressionEngine for all my CMS needs, crossing over to WordPress was challenging. Ok, it was really frustrating at times. Eventually though, I came around to understanding how to utilize themes, posts, pages and plugins. ExpressionEngine and WordPress each do different things well, and I’m glad to have experience building a fully custom site with WordPress after building numerous sites with EE.

Overall, I’m pleased with the design, and happy to have a brand new site.

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April 13th, 2009

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Typeface Resources

A HUGE list of resources for making your typography look great on the web.

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April 13th, 2009

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Webdesigner Depot

Webdesigner Depot is an excellent blogazine aimed at web designers. Some really inspiring and informative posts. Bookmarked.

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