Tag: design
Small Talk with a web designer
Small Talk with a Web Designer. Filed under “It’s funny becasue it’s true”. Web Designer seems to sounds like “Computer Expert” to a lot of people.
More New sites
I’ve had a few new sites launch in the last couple of weeks…
christchurchnz.net - a major undertaking redesigning the main site for Christchurch and Canterbury’s official regional tourism office. Its the first step of redesign a whole suite of sites.
weddingsnz.co.nz - part one of two sites being redesigned for a lodge and wedding chapel down in Queenstown.
wildernessguides.co.nz - a seakayaking and hiking site for a company up in the Malrborough Sounds
How Designers Think
Design almost invariably involves compromise…. Rarely can the designer simply optimise one requirement without suffering losses elsewhere…. There are no established methods for deciding just how good or bad solutions are, and still the best test of most design is to wait and see how well it works in practice. Design solutions can never be perfect and are often more easily criticised than created, and designers must accept that they will almost invariably appear wrong in some ways to some people.
Jason Santa Maria
Jason Santa Maria has redesign - after 5 years. Plain and simple for now, but beautifully elegant. He’s talkig about having more of an arti direction approach to his posts, tailoring the design to what he is saying, should be pretty exciting
Celebrating Design
I got interviewed - about my take on design in my life but the blog Celebrating Design. The whole site is well worth a read.
New sites…
Some new sites have gone live, worth checking out…
Ohau Ski Fields and Lodge - site design and build
Porters Skifield - Site Design
Heritage Expeditions - Site design and build
revisions
You would think by the 13th design revision a client would be getting flagged as being difficult to deal with.
Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource
Webmonkey is back from the grave.
It seems forever ago now, but back in the day webmonkey was the site that got me through most of my problems and queries to do with web design and development. Its great to see it back.
Quote by A List Apart: Articles: On Creativity
No component fuels creativity more than constraint. Indeed, without constraint, creativity (and design) is irrelevant.
Quote by [object HTMLImageElement]
Hiring a good designer is like hiring someone to cut your hair.
Its incredible how quickly the buzz and idealism of a design conference can be lost at the first sight of clients…
Extremely Loud.gif (GIF Image, 510×622 pixels)
An awesome book, and an even nicer cover.
Moving Forward, Looking Back
There’s a lot of noise being attacking, and in defense of, the announcement that Internet Explorer 8 will target different rendering engines using a <meta> tag in the header. Apparently this move is in order to avoid “breaking” the web when they release new browsers (a-la the introduction of IE7 last year).The proposal is that from Internet Explorer 8 onwards, pages will render as they should appear in IE7, unless you include the line of code
<meta HTTP-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
in the head of your document, in which case it will render using the new IE8 engine with better CSS support. This way sites won’t break when a new version of IE is released, but developers will still be able to use the new features should they wish. Essentially designers/developers will have to “opt-in” for the new rendering engine, but it won’t be used by default. Read More
