Shopify has released Shopify Apps, along with an API for developers. This means shop owners will be able to easily add useful features to their shops and that Shopify developers will be able to create some outstanding apps and better still theres a billing system in place for receipt of payment for the developers.
The launch of the Google Chrome Web OS is great news across the the whole tech industry, for web designers the expansion of this web based OS should mean better support for CSS 3 and HTML 5 and all the goodness that brings. I’m already dreaming of border radius, multiple backgrounds, opacity and web fonts.
I truly hate captcha’s, they are so annoying and wildy over used, we spend so much time working on the web usability of a design and ensuring accessibility to the widest audience and then we add a captcha that wrecks the flow of the web page and adds a big ole extra step in the way of the user completing a task.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.