Monday, December 20th, 2010
Every year many companies, especially creative agencies have the dilemma of “what do we do for Christmas!?” We simply made some nice Christmas cards last year but this time we wanted to go one better and create something digital as well as something that’s fun, creative, and shows off our skills!
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
One of my pet hates is when designers preview the websites they’re working on as an emailed .jpg, rather than as an HTML file within the browser (which usually results in it being printed by the client). A design looks completely different when it’s printed out to how it does on the screen - not only are you printing a 72dpi / RGB design, but a printer renders text and images completely differently to a monitor. A website is a piece of interactive digital artwork and so should be shown in this way, even in the first stages of it’s development. Seeing as though 1024 x 768 is still the most popular screen size, when presenting your designs you should obviously make sure they work at this resolution, but by putting your design in a HTML file you are able to present it in any number of resolutions - Go on, impress your client by going that little step further and help them see that their site will look different, but just as great, on their computer compared to your 27″ iMac! ;-)
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Ok, so there are a lot of articles out there on HTML5, especially since Google Wave arrived (because it’s the first major app to run on the language), but all the information that you need to know in order to start using it now is either too complicated, or spread out over various websites / articles / tutorials. Hopefully in this article we’ll be able to amalgamate and condense a lot of this information so that anyone with basic HTML knowledge can start using it.
Before I start I’d just like to say a big thank you to the Speak the Web guys who put a series of talks on in the north of England over the last two weeks. The gigs each had a speaker from Opera (amongst others) who enlightened many of us to the true potential of HTML5, and why we should start using it sooner rather than later.
