There’s been a lot of buzz over the last couple of days about the increasing number different screen sizes on Android devices, and what this might mean for the future of the breakpoints we use for responsive sites. In particular Stephanie Rieger brought up the topic, and then Jeffrey Zeldman weighed in with his thoughts got some serious discussion going on in the comments.
It’s still relatively early days in my experience of developing and rolling out responsively designed websites. One of the more recent ones, CEP Connect, was a phase 1 project which is currently entering its second phase. This is, of course, involving changes to the design of the site: the addition of new elements, and adjustments to others.
This has brought to light first hand, the impact that a responsively designed site might have on development time and cost when it comes to making changes down the track.
It was only relatively recently that I came to the realisation that my real passion and skill is in front-end design and development for the web. I enjoy, and am capable, doing other design work but it seems that i really hit my stride working on web designs in photoshop and hand coding html, css and javascript to bring them to life.
Well the 24 hour redesign challenge that I issued myself is now over. Literally minutes ago, i closed my text editor and ftp app and let the dust settle. I thought now might be a suitable time to jot down some initial thoughts on how it all went.
Overall it was a lot of work, but not as hard as I had thought. Of the 24 hour period i spent just under 16 of it actively working on the site (with a few hours for sleep, food etc) which is not too bad an effort for coding up a site (and making a bunch of design decisions on the fly) from scratch. Read more…
This might be a bit crazy, but I think I am going to go out on a limb.
The current version of the Jordesign website is really very limited in it’s scope. It was launched in a hurry with the new branding in conjunction with buying a house and moving to Wollongong. It has served well, but it is time for something more. Read more…
It’s been almost two weeks since Web Directions South took place in Sydney, and I still have much of what I heard over the two days flapping around in my head. I thought it might not hurt to get some of it nailed down here. The overall direction of the conference was thoroughly forward looking - many of the sessions carrying an message to embrace the medium of the web, and just simply make things. There was also a strong undercurrent of encouragement to shy away from existing design metaphors as a crutch and come up with designs that are truly native to the web.
It’s been a little while, but I’ve finally returned the blog to jordesign.com. I didn’t set one up with the brief site redesign a few months back, and it has been irking me a little. It seems silly in some ways, as I am in the early stages of a full blown redesign, but i didn’t want that process to stop me from writing - which is something I really need to be doing more of.
So the design is spartan, and is bound to have some rough edges. It’s only been about an hours work so far, so I will need to keep tweaking. No comments, but let’s be honest - there were never any comments on the old site. Keeping the deliberately removed keeps the clutter down.
The important thing is that now there is Something there. Stay Tuned.