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!
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Better late than never, we’ve finally come around to finding time to tell you about our experience at Flash on the Beach 2010, which took place between the 26th and 29th September. Now, we don’t do much Flash here at What!? Creative, but based our experience last year of being completely inspired by a massively diverse range of speakers, we decided to give it another go and make it two years running…
So, without further redo, here’s a round up of all the best bits from FOTB 2010:
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
A growing trend amongst top web designers is to use an assortment of subtle textures in their work. This helps give depth and, even if you don’t notice them at first, add an extra degree of complexity and intrigue to a design. If used intelligently and effectively (and by that I mean tastefully!) textures can really lift a website to the next level.
Over the next two weeks I will walk you through a range of techniques that can be applied to many different elements of your designs to give them just that extra bit of style…
This week we’ll be mostly talking about insetting and outsetting page elements in Photoshop (and CSS3), as well as covering how add these effects to non-vector patterns without having to manually cut them out!
This is a pretty simple one really and it works on almost any style of font. For both effects you begin in the same way… First, type out your text and select your colours / background colour in Photoshop. Then, in your layers pallet double click the far right of the text layer that you want to apply the effect to. A Layer Styles box should open…
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?
