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Web Production as Chess 21 Jul 2012 | 01:00 am
I’ve been known to enjoy a little chess now and then (not to say that I’m particularly good at it). It’s the hallmark of strategy games, and often very complicated events or situations are compared to...
Quick Tip: SVG Fonts & @font-face 2 Dec 2011 | 03:56 am
So a couple weeks back I was doing some work on a client website. I had just recently signed up for TypeKit and was using that to serve up the custom fonts for the site. It was working splendidly. The...
Can We Finally Move Beyond Mobile? 21 Sep 2011 | 02:35 pm
So here we are, well into the second half of 2011. Some might even say we are in the home stretch, already looking toward what 2012 will have to offer. In this moment, it seems that everywhere you tur...
Improving the Login Form Experience 1 Sep 2011 | 11:00 pm
Over the past few months, it seems that pretty much every site I’ve been working on has required functionality that allows users to register and then log in, either to access certain content or to int...
Thoughts on Why You Should Have a Side Project 27 Aug 2011 | 04:43 am
As designers and developers, most of us are working on projects for clients on a regular basis. For most readers here, it will probably be the design and development of websites, or possibly even web ...
Real World CSS Practices 20 Aug 2011 | 02:14 am
By now, I think it’s safe to say that most designers on the web are using CSS in some capacity. Even those (misguided) individuals who are still using table-based layouts have a tendency to use CSS fo...
I Love Responsive Design, But… 7 Aug 2011 | 07:13 am
Let me start by saying that, as a concept, I am a big fan of what people are calling responsive design. The ability to build a site with multiple layouts that are displayed based on the size of the br...
Don’t Confuse Ability with Usability 27 Jul 2011 | 02:00 am
As designers and developers working on either traditional websites, web apps or mobile apps, we can have a tendency to become too narrowly focused on features. We create lists of functionality (either...
Wireframing is About More than Just Visual Layout 20 Jul 2011 | 02:00 am
Over the past couple of days, I have been working on an initial concept/prototype for a new, interesting website. As I normally like to do whenever I am tackling a new project, I started by opening up...
Usability and CSS3 Columns 17 Mar 2011 | 12:22 pm
One of the cool new properties that CSS3 brings to typography on websites is the ability to quickly and easily create columns with the column-count property. For browsers that support this property, a...
