Photo by Martin Kliehm (license)
If you’ve been paying attention to web design news in the past week, you probably know that the web standards community has been having quite a bit of debate about a new feature of Internet Explorer 8. The controversy was kicked off by two articles on A List Apart: Beyond DOCTYPE: […]
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Photo by Zack Birkenbuel (license)
If you spend any amount of time in the field of photography, you have probably come across the concept of the rule of thirds. For those not familiar with the rule, it states that compositions will tend to be more interesting if the areas of interest are located along the horizontal […]
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Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire artists, scientists and others. Here are six things we can learn from him about web design.
1. Be curious
One of the most remarkable things about Leonardo is his insatiable curiosity. Besides being a master painter, here […]
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“Beauty is the splendor of truth.”
This was a saying of the medieval scholastic philosophers. The basic idea is that Beauty (capital B) always has its source in Truth. They weren’t stupid about the way that beauty and falsehood is often mixed on earth, but they thought that ultimately, if you trace it back far enough, […]
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There are obviously a lot of questions that you should be thinking about when hiring a web designer, but here are three that you might not have considered yet.
1. Does the web designer just do code (HTML, CSS, etc.) or does he also design the visual aspect of the site?
There are a lot of web […]
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Rob Goodlatte has just released a really handy bookmarklet called Syncotype to help check the vertical rhythm of the typography on a web page. Once you’ve installed it, just click the Syncotype bookmark. You’ll get a box to input the line-height and an offset from the top of the page so that Syncotype can overlay […]
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This is an excellent interview with Mark Boulton.
My favorite part…
What education gives you is time and a different kind of pressure. In industry, the pressures are from the client, the market and making a profit. Design is a business, and as such, it’s difficult to remove yourself form those pressures to give you the space […]
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One of my favorite ways to keep up with the latest news, techniques, and best practices is by listening to web design podcasts. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a good list of them yet. So I thought I would put together a list of my own.
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