A Design’s Natural Habitat
Every step in the path to building a website involves conceptualizing your creation along increasingly realistic steps. By the time you are ready to lay down some serious pixels in Photoshop, you should be creating something that doesn’t just resemble the final product — it looks exactly like it. Fully designed and accurately proportioned, your deck of layouts is an exact description of...
Read MoreThe Quality Triangle
The Quality Triangle is often joked about but seldom understood to be a real phenomenon. It is sometimes mentioned sarcastically by a dismayed project member when a client asks for a large task on a budget . There are very few absolute rules in life, but I feel that this axiom holds true across many professions and personal endeavors alike. Whether a client realizes it or not, you can’t...
Read MoreCreating Wire Frames
Before you even think about cracking open a graphics program, save yourself a lot of headache and wasted time by roughing out a concept of the site or page you want to create. Articulating your concepts this way will give your project a basic visual form. As your idea begins to take shape, you’ll come to have a greater understanding of how a user will interact with it, how a person will...
Read MoreBeyond The Print Legacy
What do we do when the established rules begin to chafe? When the rules that form our foundation begin to stifle growth, how do we break free? When the leash no longer guides, but limits, what then? The answer should come easy to anyone familiar with the ever-mutating realms of technology, design and pop culture: You change the rules. From whence we came … We are proud of our...
Read MoreUsing a CSS Reset
A CSS reset is a set of CSS rules you use as a starting point in order to preemptively quell bugs that may arise due to the Browser Wars. A CSS reset does this by applying consistent values to elements that browsers typically render differently by default (such as margin, padding and font-inheritance). Below is a reset you can use, originally written by Eric Meyer. html, body, div, span,...
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