“It’s my firm belief that if your markup is describable as code, you’re not doing it right.”a commenter only known as Wednesday (comment #81), in response to Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one?
Another great article on CSS layout techniques (fixed, fluid, and elastic) with viable pros and cons for each.
“One hundred nasty bugs in the code,Adapted from the MC at my daughter’s science fair last night
One hundred bugs in the code!
Knock one down, re-start again—
One hundred one nasty bugs in the code!
(Repeat until the number of bugs equals zero.)
”
In response to our discussion in a design review the other day, here is an excellent article on how to create an elastic site.
Vimeo has such a better experience than stupid Youtube. Check this stop motion HD video of some little dude set to Life Aquatic music. You can see the drops of water! Awesome video, and a great site.
Inspiration is everywhere. I don’t know that the icon designer who did the new Office Mac icons was looking at a Metallic Blue Telecaster with Ivory Binding, or not, but that’s what it reminded me of.
“I don’t know where exactly, but somewhere in between Saul Bass and Joshua Davis, a new breed of designers … developed an arrogant attitude and started acting like Divas instead of acting like the professionals they were supposed to be.”Juanma Teixidó, in Dear Colleagues, a well-written critique of modern designeristas
Professor Moll’s Extensible CSS Interface I: The Foundation has been blogged. The four part series will go with our upcoming internal HTML/CSS workshop like jell-o and carrots. Tho hopefully we’ll have fewer nerds who feel a need to call me out on meaningless (yet accurate!) details.
Could this be simplified?
(Firetruck water panel at the Draper Fire Station.)
Google Sites. Finally, something to save the world from Sharepoint?
Garfield minus Garfield takes the mischievous cat out of the old comics and finds a totally different story. “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?” (via)
How to recreate Silverback’s Parallax, the alpha-transparent PNG trick linked up here a few days ago.
“Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence.”Arnold Rimmer – Red Dwarf
My little snippet the other day didn’t do Jared’s redesign the justice it deserves. I love the new dash of professionalism, simplicity, and the rad little glossyish wax stamp. I’ve always loved reading his stuff, but I didn’t realize I was among 1300 others. Jared’s site continues to be one of the few who can pull off pink, and this round he shows he can do it in a suit. Well done.
This is a sweet and easy JQuery API browser..
Gilbert taking in the power of a Microsoft beanie.
“The most common way to get usability wrong is to listen to what users say rather than actually watching what they do. Requirement specifications are always wrong.”Jakob Nielson in the aforementioned Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes.
Looking for a bookshelf?
Take a look at 30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs and get inspired.
Not only is this site rich with doctrine, it’s also rich with design excellence.
JesusChrist.lds.org
New MacBook Pro’s are out today and shipping with a 2.6Ghz Intel, 250 gig hard drive, and 4 gigs of RAM. Plus the new trackpads and more.