Archives for “design”

Frequently, when I see a webpage with superscript or subscript text, I see associated gaps in the paragraph. This is caused because the default way ...


Talk Like Warren Ellis

A few weeks ago, I called my friend Miles and asked him to help me out with the programming on a project I dreamed up. ...


Frequently, my coworkers will forget their Bugzilla passwords. They come to me, because I manage it, and I always send them to the reset password ...


I'm sure you've all heard the Fireworks vs. Photoshop debate. When I started at Pop Art, I was a Photoshop user. It was the application ...


Who’s Afraid of HTML Email?

Anyone who tells you creating HTML email is easy has either never done it, or is lying. Inexperienced designers tend to think, "Oh, no problem, ...


Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in ...


Version Targeting and IE8

Previously on Web Developer Controversies: Aaron Gustafson from the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 will use a META tag to kick the engine ...


The Email Standards Project

In 1998, Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project to fight for better support of web standards from the browser manufacturers and web developers. It ...


"The experienced web designer, like the talented newspaper art director, accepts that many projects she works on will have headers and columns and footers. Her ...


A Few Dumb Questions

"I’d rather answer a few dumb questions than put up with a few dumb assumptions." -- Aaron Cannon, in reply to a question about whether he ...


41 Useful CSS Links

I was clearing out my bookmarks recently, and noticed that I had a pretty large collection of web development and CSS-related bookmarks that I never ...


Web Design for Sara Ryan

In January, I got an email from Sara Ryan, asking if I would be interested in designing a website for her: Hi Scott -- I found ...


An Event Apart Seattle 2007

Last year, I attended An Event Apart 2006 in Seattle. It was a great event, although I remember it being really rushed, because they seven ...


What started as a simple project with LP to redesign their top-level landing pages quickly grew to encompass their entire site. This brought with it ...


First Annual Web Design Survey

"People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession." A List Apart ...


CSS Naked Day ‘07

It's that time of year again when standards-conscious web designers shed their stylesheets and let their sites run around, exposing their raw markup to the ...


We're here! It's 8:50, and the big screen is showing a slideshow of photos that they guys must have taken yesterday when they got into ...


Photoshop Mockup

Work is continuing on the new design for the blog. I've moved on from thumbnailing to making mockups in Photoshop. I had a few false ...


Thumbnailing

My graphic design teachers would be so damn proud of me. I'm working on the new design for Space Ninja, and I'm finding that it's ...