Design Critique Of The Week 04
This weeks design critique is a mock up to Wordpress theme service called Theme Slice that I run along with Mike Jolley, jointly designed our mission was to do the brand justice; the design should moniker different layers of a cake, choclate and cream. 2 column with a curvy sidebar, Lets Discuss.
Get W3C School Certified
W3Schools’ Online Certification Program is a great way of getting some credibility without a lenthly college or uni course, and some practice of the finer points of web design or development. This great resource is offering an Online Certification Program. Certificates include PHP, ASP, XML, Javascript and HTML which costs 75usd.
Typekit: Real Web Fonts
As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design.
Ask The Audience: Three Column Layout
I have a question for my good audience; Is it ok for 3 column layouts to allow the 3rd (right most) column to be chopped off ? Does it matter that the 3rd column may not be viewable by everyone as long as you just have extras on the 3rd column and not website crucial elements such as navigation, is it wrong to just accept that some users resolutions will just chop the 3rd column off?
Design Critique Of The Week 03
This weeks design critique is a bright and curvy design from Headscape for their web design community Boagworld, named after Mr Paul Boag, who also co presents a weekly web design podcast Boagworld, the design has a typical 2 column blog feel to it, freshened with bold graphics, Lets Discuss.
Web Designer Face-Off 01
Web designer face-off brings 2 web designers face to face answering 10 quick fire questions, the results are presented side by side and should give us valuable insight into the web designers inner workings, each bout will bring publicity and laughter to the competitors and honor to the victor.
Shopify Release Vision 4.0
Shopify have released version 4.0 of Vision, their Shopify theme application, I love Vision and shopify and I am excited to see some great new features including support for jQuery ( my javascript library of choice), different aspect ratios for products and updated the product options amongst others.
Google Supports Microformats
“At Google, we believe in openness, so we are using two open standards to allow you to annotate structured data on your site: microformats and RDFa. Both standards allow markup of information on your pages. To ensure that Google understands your markup, we encourage you to follow the format of our examples. You don’t need any prior knowledge of microformats or RDFa to use these standards, just a basic knowledge of XHTML.”
CSS Speech Bubbles
A cool technique for creating CSS speech bubbles: Speech bubble icons have become synonymous with comments. When creating yet another one for a standard comment link, it occurred to me that there might be a way to make the icon without ever opening up an image editor. It could all be done with CSS.
Read the CSS speech bubble post
Shopify Multiple Product Options
Shopify has announced new Multiple options for products feature; You can now have products with multiple options, making it easier for you to organize your products and for your customers to browse and select what they want to buy. For example, if you sell jeans you’ll easily be able to create a different drop-down menu for the colour/style, another one for the waist size, and another for the length.