A few years ago I wrote about (and used!) S5, the Simple Standards-based Slide Show System. A few days ago, SitePoint offered an overview of “5 of the Best Free HTML5 Presentation Systems“. It cannot be denied that these five, possibly along with others, go beyond what is possible with Eric Meyer’s S5. But that isn’t [...]
Archive for the ‘Design and Art’ Category
HTML5 Presentation Systems Look Great
Posted in Android, Design and Art, Internet, Software on 15/03/2012 |
The Big Picture
Posted in Design and Art, Photography on 19/02/2012 |
Great story about a great (big!) camera and big pictures: “Gear Behind the Career: Elsa Dorfman and the Giant Polaroid Camera“.
Creativity And Experimentation
Posted in Design and Art, Internet, Web Development on 28/01/2012 |
If the CSS Zen Garden no longer tempts you, dear graphical designer, then have a look at CSS1K: “CSS1K invites you to show that web developers are more inventive than ever, and that limitations can sparkle creativity…Submissions must consist of only CSS. Submissions may be up to 1 K (1024 bytes) minified“. There are already some great submissions, and [...]
Nice Touch, Indeed!
Posted in Android, Design and Art, Mobile Computing, Software on 05/10/2011 |
This brings new meaning to the term “graphical tablet” – and I was so proud of my Wacom tablet a few years ago ;-)
Web Developers: Help Queensland And Yourself At The Same Time
Posted in Design and Art, Internet, Society, Web Development on 18/01/2011 |
If you like building websites – or if you do it to earn your money – and you want to do something for the poor Aussies in the flooded region around Brisbane, then you could do worse than quickly surf to the Sitepoint website and buy some or all of the electronic version of three [...]
Put Your Inner Geek In Perspective!
Posted in Design and Art, Personal on 31/03/2010 |
Geek and Poke is a blog with excellent cartoons, delivered almost daily. The autor attacks project management, social networking (Twitter!), Apple Computer, even religion.
Mockingbird Sings A Fine Tune
Posted in Design and Art, Personal, Software on 21/01/2010 |
Mockingbird | Wireframes on the fly is an online tool for webdesigners, allowing them to mock up the structure and layout of webpages and websites. The way it works reminds me of the beginning days of PageMaker and other DTP tools of the previous century: laying out different types of “containers” on a paper page [...]
Here’s More Than A Glimpse!
Posted in Design and Art, Internet, Personal, Photography on 22/12/2009 |
What a combination! Just have a look at craigmod‘s GF1 Field Test: 16 Days in The Himalayas: there’s a detailed, practical and well-written review of the Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera I mentioned in September, presented in a simple but elegant web page design, illustrated with pin-sharp, beautiful pictures of people and landscapes alike. This is [...]
Nice, Simple CSS Generator
Posted in Design and Art, Software on 22/07/2009 |
When a big CSS framework is too much of a hassle and inventing the wheel once again isn’t your cup of tea: just try The 1KB CSS Grid by Tyler Tate :: A simple, lightweight approach. Quite simple it is, indeed, but very workable. Now I wonder: did they do a version of the CSS Zen Garden [...]
Stylish
Posted in Design and Art on 07/05/2009 |
Stylish, beatiful, and growing: The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – a practical guide to web typography.
Gom Jabbar, Or How To Cause Pain With A Blog Title
Posted in Design and Art, Software Development on 10/02/2009 |
This blog title did hit a nerve with me: Don’t use css or table layout, use Sass and Compass. I thought we had long passed the “CSS versus TABLEs” debate, but it seems that the discussion flares up from time to time. Anyway, Guillaume Maury is just teasing us with the title, because what he presents [...]
How To Make Money With Free Software?
Posted in Design and Art, Python, Software Development on 18/11/2008 |
It’s not easy, but it can be done, although perhaps not the way you would expect. Stani used GNU/Linux and Python, among other tools, to design a commemorative coin for the Dutch Mint. Stani’s design is actually on sale since October 30th – and yes, I bought one. It’s a good reminder of the fact that [...]
Smashing!
Posted in Design and Art, Software Development on 26/08/2008 |
I stumbled upon yet another excellent article on the Smashing Magazine website: CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know. If you’re somehow involved with web design (CSS, HTML, layout, …) you had better put this site on your reference list!
Essential And Classic At The Same Time
Posted in Content Management, Design and Art, Internet on 27/06/2008 |
BusinessWeek writes up the Ten Commandments of Web Design, of which the last one reads: “Thou shalt make content king. [...] Beautiful can’t make up for empty.“. Essential. Classic. Often forgotten.
Good To Know
Posted in Design and Art, Software Development on 29/05/2008 |
It’s always good to know why: “Top reasons your CSS columns are messed up“. Now all I have to do is find a bit of time to apply the solution(s) to the problems I suspect to find in the pages I’ve been trying to build on my day job!
