The Benefits of CSS3 vs JQuery

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Everyone seems to be talking about the advantages of CSS3 and what it can do, and to be honest I don’t blame them. Along with HTML5 it’s really going to improve the way that we design for the web, making the implementation of seemingly simple design elements, actually simple! But as always with emerging Web technologies, there are problems with uptake. If you’ve been playing around with CSS3 then you’ll probably know which browsers recognise it and which don’t, but in case you aren’t sure… The newest versions of Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Firefox render most of the basics at the moment, but IE6 - 8 doesn’t. Thankfully IE9 will.

So, we can start working it into our designs, right?

Well, yes. But some people would probably argue that (for the time being) JQuery would be a better option. So what are the benefits of CSS3 vs JQuery?

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Tags: css, css3, HTML, jQuery
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Designing for Touch Screen

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Now, this post was supposed to go out about two weeks ago, and since then it seems that every designer under the sun has written on the same subject - That’ll teach us for being lazy. Nonetheless, we decided to publish it anyway, just in case anyone missed any of the other great posts out there…

By now you should all have heard of the iPad, and if not then you must have been living under a rock for the last few months! Touch screen devices are here to stay and you need to start thinking about how to design and develop to get the most out of them. Apple would like you to believe that the iPad is the only touch screen device that anyone should own (and to be honest it probably is the best), but there are already some strong competitors, and many more coming to the market this year. So, you need to get your thinking caps on and start designing your websites to work with them, as well as updating your other sites, too. There are a lot of things to consider… here are just a few.

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Tags: css, HTML, iPad, iPhone, webdesign, webdevelopment
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Our brand-spanking new website!

Friday, June 11th, 2010

After tweeting yesterday that we didn’t have time to blog this week, it actually turns out that we do! So for those of you who haven’t noticed already, we have a brand new website! And I thought I’d tell you a little bit about it…

The decision to redesign wasn’t taken lightly. In my opinion there have to be strong reasons in order to make it worth while dedicating so much (unpaid) time to redesigning your website, and in our case I think there was. The original site was very simple, and quite popular! A lot of people seemed to like it, but in our opinion it just didn’t say as much about the company as we wanted. There weren’t enough images of our work, and from a clients perspective, there wasn’t enough information on how we approach our work and the way that we build our relationships.

Instead of spending a lot of time working this information into the current design, the decision was made to start from scratch as it wasn’t actually much more work!

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Tags: css, HTML, webdesign, webdevelopment
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Web Design For The Browser, Not The Printer

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! ;-)

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