I installed WordPress tonight now that I’ve finished working on my new theme, and found a draft post on one of my old blogs titled “Bob Marley & the Whalers”.
I clearly never got as far as writing the article, but I’d love to know what on earth it was going to be about.
Link: Genius use of animated gifs (yes, you read that right)
Some more examples can be found here. I’m especially keen on the less is more approach, this could really add a lot to a website.
Link: Web design in a few years time
The more I learn about CSS3, the less I think that photoshop and the ‘design stage’ of current web design practices will be at all relevant in just a few years time. I think that within a year I’ll have stopped using photoshop on any project I was developing for myself. And for work that other people need to review, new practices will to evolve to cope with that. But it’s enough of a change for me to think that it’s not worth upgrading my own copy of photoshop any more. Design will happen in the browser, and for basic photo adjustments, it’s amazing how much you can achieve with something as simple as picassa.
This change is a challenge to everyone who works in web design and I suspect it will leave a few designers, developers and other webbies in limbo.
P.s. The title (and corresponding link) are not to suggest that CSS3 is not valid right now. Only that working processes will take a little time to catch up with this opportunity.
Link: Tell-all telephone
Fascinating, boring, beautiful and scary all at the same time.
Best landing page fact of the week so far… “Amazon’s Kindle page is three Hasselhoffs high.“
(A great article too by the way)
We’ll be making Bibliofaction much more streamlined soon. It should be easier to use and quicker to load. Rather than trying to make the site all things to all people, we will focus on the core ‘thing’ – the short stories.
Link: Easy online wireframes tool
This is a nice way to play around with some site design ideas. I’ve been using it to work on making Bibliofaction a bit easier to use without getting too stuck in the nitty gritty of design work.
I’m not sure how well it would scale for a full spec process, but as a visual thinking space it’s worked well so far.
Link: Log in vs. sign in
A handy reference for a mildly debated but rarely answered question. Should the button say log in, or sign in?
It’s easy to get caught up in the foibles of a corporate culture and the systems that have been built over time, but they have nothing at all to do with the faith that built the system in the first place.
Tribes, Seth Godin
(that’s not really representative of the book, but I liked that chunk of text)
Link: Five Second Tests
A nice way to find out people’s actual first impression of your web page or design. It’s a good idea to to register for a free account and complete some tests for others, even if it’s just to help you think about your own page designs.
or enter your email to keep up with my nonsense.