Monthly Archives: August 2007
Mobile Web Design Aug 28, 07
Cameron’s book, Mobile Web Design (in gottahaveitnow-friendly PDF format) is available now. Worth every penny if you develop for mobile devices or think you might someday (and you will).
Links of Interest 8.21 Aug 21, 07
Cameron’s posted a free preview of his soon-to-be-released book, Mobile Web Design. If you’re like me and you can learn a few things after spending 5 minutes reading these little morsels from the book, you’ll want to keep a credit card handy on August 28th.
Lovely little retro Mac OS WordPress theme
Internet advertising is going to be a big deal. And keep your eyes open for something called “Outdoor”. </sarcasm>
Worst. Homepage. Evar. Aug 13, 07
This definitely falls into the “so bad it’s good” category: Arngren
I’m sort of impressed that they managed to achieve a layout like this using absolutely positioned DIVs.
via Get Elastic
Links of Interest 8.8 Aug 8, 07
Blueprint CSS – another CSS framework (think Yahoo’s UI Grids), but this one is based on the design and development work at the Lawrence Journal-World, so it’s very focused on designers’ needs with a flexible grid, predefined typography, print styles, etc. What’s a CSS framework? It basically takes a lot of the pain out of CSS development by giving you a pre-tested and pre-coded set of files, allowing you to focus on designing your site rather than fixing the inevitable browser bugs (i.e., IE).
Branding works! – in a somewhat disturbing study, researchers discovered that any food wrapped in McDonald’s packaging was more appealing to 3 – 5 year-olds than food in plain wrappers… even McDonald’s food in plain wrappers.
Someone from Sony is Twittering the shoot for the latest Bravia spot.
Flickr’s adding video – details are sketchy, but it’s interesting to think about how this could change the Flickr experience…
** update ** a little more Flickr news of note; they’ve redesigned their upload page and it’s the bees knees.
Remote Buddy & DarwiinRemote Aug 4, 07
Remote Buddy & DarwiinRemote — two apps that let you control your Mac with you Wiimote. WiiLi.org has a good overview of Remote Buddy or you can watch the video here.
7 steps to subtle suede Aug 1, 07
There’s a new soon-to-be-overused web design technique making its way across the internets. I don’t know if it has a name yet, so I’ll dub it… subtle suede. (Sandpaper would have worked too, but it doesn’t sound as sexy.) I first used it on a work project, then this blog, but I think the technique received its widest acclaim thanks to Blue Flavor’s tasty Leaflets site.
It super easy to create… all you need is Photoshop and a few minutes to kill. Here’s the how-to: Read More
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