Ooh, looky here! A shiny new layout with coolies rounded corners. How web 2.0 am I, eh? In all truth, it’s amazing what not having a website can do to you. It makes you productive. Funny that. I coded, I designed, I even washed the dishes that had been sat on the side since [...]
Oct 1st, 08 @ 08:05 · Design, Updates · 76 Comments
It seems my post on ‘web naughties’ — and my secret love for justified text — provoked more thought and opinion than I expected. It seems that quite a few people have a view on the subject, be it positive or negative.
Aisling posted an interesting comment using her experience with the CNIB as reasoning [...]
Nov 9th, 07 @ 21:19 · Coding, Design · 2 Comments
No, I’m not talking about pr0n, but web design habits that fly in the face of accessibility, good design or just plain old common sense. I have a secret love for quite a few of these ‘naughties’ and while I probably won’t ever use/go back to them myself, I smile a secret smile when I [...]
Nov 7th, 07 @ 22:28 · Design · 41 Comments
…what the point of — or inspiration for — this layout is/was, but it seemed silly and fun and so I thought “sod it”. Don’t ask me, I was just procrastinating (need to read my course docs). For the record, it’s not a real explosion, it’s actually just some clouds. ‘Cause I’m creative like that. [...]
Oct 8th, 07 @ 19:48 · Design, Updates · 64 Comments
I’m sat in today, waiting for the plumber to come and fix the hot tap in the bathroom. Instead of doing something constructive like tackling my ridiculous to-do list I’m fiddling with a design I started last night and wondering how I ever manage to finish these things.
I could never be a graphic designer… or [...]
Sep 21st, 07 @ 10:55 · Design · 109 Comments
You know, I have grown quite fond of this layout. Considering it started out as something completely other and within a month of having it up I noticed I was the last person to jump on the wide header bandwagon, it has served me well. I say “served” past tense, because I want to give [...]
Jun 21st, 07 @ 18:01 · Design · 65 Comments
When I read up on C.R.A.P. last month — I admit — I was hoping it would turn me into an amazing designer overnight. Of course, we all know that this is an impossible feat and you can’t reverse several years of bad design habits with one book. However, it did at least make me [...]
Apr 7th, 07 @ 18:13 · Design · 67 Comments
No, I’m not being rude and I’m not swearing at you… I’ve just finished reading a book (The Non-Designers Design Book — Robin Williams) and have learnt that “CRAP” is the best way of remembering the four basic design principles: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity.
I make no secret of the fact that I don’t [...]
Mar 28th, 07 @ 19:32 · Design, Hobbies · 15 Comments
As those of you who don’t read via my feed may have noticed, I’ve had a bit of a fiddle with the design. I’ve done that trendy thing and gone one-columned. (Columned.. is that a word?) Also done a bit of nifty CSS navigation but I can’t decide if I like it because drop-downs are [...]
Jan 17th, 07 @ 20:56 · Design · 75 Comments
I know, I change layouts more often than I change my underwear, but seriously.. who didn’t find the blue incredibly bland? You didn’t? Oh, well, I did. I am still sticking with the lines and circles — lines under headers, blocky navigation, circles in the header etc — just making things a little more fruity [...]
Jul 2nd, 06 @ 18:34 · Design, Rambling · 38 Comments
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