I could tell you myself the story of how this happened, but yesterday I’ve been the featured designer on Designers Who Blog and since Cat decided to tell it in a much funnier way I’d be able to, then you’d better just go there and read it from her.
To me it was already a reason for pride that my plugin was the base for such a giantic and useful blogroll, but, makes me even prouder to be featured shoulder to shoulder in such a front line of great designers in DWB.
And by the way, did I mention how useful her blogroll is? I can’t stress that enough! If you are looking for great design blogs to follow, you should start there.
Zo’C has entered the age of video. It took me a while to get all things right, but better safe than sorry isn’t it?
I intend to periodically share some videos on web design and development things. That can be Photoshop, Illustrator, how to install a tool, CSS tricks and so on. It could just as well be about videoblogging.
For my first tutorial on this new era I’m going to teach you how to create a cool animation in Photoshop like the one on my last post about videoblogging and podcasting and I’ll show you how to export it in several video formats including Flash video, Quicktime .mov and animated Gif’s.
I was just watching the Helvetica Film that just arrived after a very long wait, and I one of the many interesting things was to see designer Win Crouwel saying
You can’t make better design with computers, but you can speed up your work
If you haven’t heard about Django, it is a Python Based framework to build complex and resource savvy sites easily and quickly. I have been studying and playing with Django in the last days and I’m simply amazed about it.
If you are a designer rather than a developer, the word python might scare you a little, since you don’t want to learn any python at all. Instead, if you are a developer, you might be skeptic to read that complex sites can be built easily.
When I started working on the web, ten years ago, sites should be done to be visible with a resolution of 640×480px, otherwise a good part of visitors would be blocked out. As resolutions increased the minimum size increased to 800×600 and today it is believed that designing towards 1024×768 is safe.
Will this number increase in the future? Should we still concern about low resolutions? What is The ultimate answer to screen resolutions for web design?
I really don’t think the ultimate answer for screen resolutions is a number, no matter what the number is. I think the answer is a process by which websites are developed.
How often you click on the archives on the sidebar of a blog? How often do you follow links in a blogroll that you didn’t knew already? In my site, according to my statistics, almost no one does it. read full post…
In april, A List Apart launched a survey as a promise to be the biggest survey among web professionals. This week, after a whole six months of crunching results, the digest was published.
On this field that is so young, yet so important, with a future that is up to us to build, a survey like this is really something to analyze carefully, among the enormous amount of useful data you’ll find, for instance, the better paid web related professions and age and gender distributions of professionals.
When I saw the Dove Evolution video for the first time I just couldn’t keep my jaw from falling. They have achieved to stand out with a campaign that at the same time makes women feeling good about themselves and does a great service to society at the same time.
The whole Campaign for Real Beauty is at the same time a first class marketing strategy and a brilliant human campaign but the second video, Dove Onslaught, has achieved to tell you why their competitors are the bad guys and they are the good ones in a way that a sensible person can hardly disagree.
Now, I only wish is that the fierce and agressive marketing campaign behind the very true and enlighted message doesn’t prevail and hopefully the whole beauty industry starts to align itself with this ideology.
By the way, if you have children don’t miss very interesting activities on the campaign website. And when I say children I do mean both boys and gilrs, because if boys keep on thinking that anorexia is beautiful, hardly ever you will convince the girls otherwise.
At the same time minimalism is in fashion out there, there is so much content to put on a single web page that too often we see cluttered layouts around the web.
Space to breath, also called White Space or Negative Space is a very delicate part of design and is directly responsible for the state of mind the reader of the reader.
Guilherme
is a Web Designer focused on web standards and the web ahead of us.
