This is the archive page for posts categorized under Web Design

Paul Hammond on CSS

Interesting thoughts from Paul Hammond on CSS designers that take joy in recoding other people’s layouts, without asking for permission. Though I find his post thought-provoking, I don’t agree with the idea that CSS has not presented itself as something that most designers should learn. Just head to this site and you can see the […]

Blo.gs Redesigns

Blo.gs has been redesigned. In case you haven’t heard about it, it’s a nice free service that keeps track of your favorite weblogs, with optional notifications when your favorite bloggers write something new. But of course you already know about it.

Beautiful Simplicity

Jeffrey Zeldman talks about good minimalist design and design competitions. It is quite hard to make clients understand the usability aspect of websites, but this should teach everyone something. 37signals has always been known for clean interfaces that minimize user errors and prioritize the site’s objectives.

CSS Image Replacement

A new image replacement method has been making the headlines in some parts of the blogosphere, with details and examples from Stuart Langridge and Seamus P. H. Leahy. This method does not require the extra <span> tag used in the famous Fahrner Image Replacement technique.

Doug Bowman’s Adaptive Path

Doug Bowman of Wired News fame shows us how to do a redesign using valid XHTML and CSS, without the use of tables for layout or any of those web design hacks of yesteryears. He provides us some ideas on the design process in his site.

INQ7.net

A redesign should solve whatever problems that existed in the first place. Not that there was much, the old INQ7.net site had too much information available that it proved to be a difficult case for visual organization. But their new design seems to overlook some very basic usability patterns that world wide web users have […]

Dead Microsoft Browsers

After stopping further development of Windows Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft has announced that IE5/Mac would be the Mac’s last. It would have been easy to rejoice thinking there will be less browsers to worry about, but realizing that more people will be stuck with their current Microsoft browser only makes things seem a bit darker. […]

Bad browser sniffing

While reading reviews of retro air jordans at Kicksology, I clicked on a link to air-jordans.com but couldn’t get in using my Mozilla Firebird 0.6. The site was sniffing my browser incorrectly, thinking it was some old browser before IE4 or NN4. Mozilla also can’t access the site. Bad browser redirection script? It’s a personal […]