So, I’ve been working this evening. I’ve created my first couple of pages using the sIFR (scalable Inman Flash Replacement) technique.
For those of you who’ve not heard of it, sIFR allows you to replace specific targeted elements. Remember how you used to make headers for every h1/h2/h3 in Photoshop, trim to fit then do the [...]
Eric Speikermann, a very well known and respected typographer and designer gives a fantastic interview over at ideasonideas. Speikermann talks quite openly about his own strengths and flaws in running a business. Very good reading for those designers and programmers who are starting up or running their own small businesses.
Spiekermann gives us the business
Well, no actually, they’re not.
They’re bad, real bad. Whether it be a default font face or default colour, it’ll make the average design sneer. Same goes for a coder. Unfortunately, with CSS, we’re dealt a large hand of default values that different browsers treat slightly differently. I’m looking at you, Internet Explorer.
A good solid [...]
A link to a session at this years SXSW Interactive, an excellent short set of slides with notes about web typography.
http://webtypography.net/sxsw2007/
There are a lot of notes and ideas in here that clarify a few thoughts for me, but it was also good to see that 90% of it, I do as standard practice. Despite studying [...]
Getting this site back on track to it’s original vision of helping designers (sorry Gaz, you’re too geeky!), here’s a great article dealing with the problems of Macs displaying different shades of the style colour.
http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/02/14/this-is-your-mac-on-drugs/
I’ve been on the receiving end of a client seeing different colours from what I could see, and it’s very difficult [...]
http://kuler.adobe.com
A great new tool for mix and matching colours, creating swatches and sharing your swatches with other users, Kuler is a colour picker on mad drugs. All in Flash too…
Make sure you’ve got the latest Flash plug-in and go take a peek.
http://www.informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period
Interesting article about the importance of typography in web design. Thanks Daring Fireball for the link.
http://www.logoorange.com/color/color-codes-chart.php
http://www.jydesign.com/pantone/index.htm
A useful site for agreeing on a Pantone to hex colour conversion, as Photoshop can give very different results depending on colourspace and colorsync calibrations.
Still doesn’t get round the issue of different gamma settings on different monitors…