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Best of the reboots ‘07

By Andrew Faulkner on May 2nd, 2007.

For those who didn’t realise, May 1st saw the reboot sites (Standards Reboot and CSS Reboot) open their doors to the rebooters. Whether you love or hate the concept, it’s an ideal place to browse for inspiration for both graphics and coding.

This year, I have the honour of …

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Client Trouble (Or, Another Reason To Blame Microsoft)

By Ezekiel Bruni on April 12th, 2007.

There’s no denying the fact that there’s a lot of design-challenged clients out there. They’re everywhere, in fact. The problem has become extensive enough that someone even put up a site where people can go to rant about them. If you haven’t met clients like this yet, keep designing. …

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Designing brand identity: book review

By Johan on March 18th, 2007.

Designing brand identity written by branding expert Alina Wheeler is already up to a second edition (2006). The book is updated with new practices and case studies. The book’s subtitle immediately clarifies any misconceptions about the main title - A complete guide to creating, building and maintaining strong brands. …

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Making Websites Beta

By Andrew Faulkner on January 11th, 2007.

OK. It’s only January and the award for ‘worst pun in title’ has a clear winner.

It had occurred to me that many sites bear the word ‘beta’ in their logo or banner. But today I stumbled across three maybe four in a row. This got me thinking and inspired me …

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The Demise of Flash: 8 Main Reasons

By Tadeusz Szewczyk on December 11th, 2006.

As a former Flash developer turned CSS zealot in the last 3 years I want to present the 8 main reasons for the demise of flash.

Now don’t get me wrong I still love Flash sites, at least to watch them and I acknowledge that there are certain cases where Flash …

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CMSs ~ Clients, Content & Control

By Andrew Faulkner on December 7th, 2006.

Steve Rose, an author here at fadtastic, approached me with some questions on Content Management Systems (CMSs.) Rather than simply offer advice to Steve, I thought I’d share it with you, dear reader. These are my opinions and I hope you’ll share your thoughts too. The following isn’t aimed …

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SEO and SEM

By Andrew Faulkner on November 29th, 2006.

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) has always been one of the biggest buzzwords on the internet. Recently, SEM (Search Engine Marketing) has been banged around too. What I aim to do here is to discuss what the differences between SEO and SEM actually are. What I say here should not be …

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One Year On | Are ads ok yet?

By Andrew Faulkner on November 9th, 2006.

(Almost) One year ago Phil asked whether ads were ok yet. He discussed the demise of the flashy pop-up ad in the world of standardistas and (I think) welcomed the change to content driven, simplistic ads. I now wish to think aloud in this post and let you know …

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Andy Budd: About User Experiences And Design

By Johan on October 9th, 2006.

For people that just joined in. Andy Budd breaths and eats the brave new web, if you don’t already you should try it. Our interviewee is into CSS-based webdesign, user experiences, web standards, accessibility. And above all he likes to talk about this stuff a lot at conferences …

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Home Sweet Home

By Abhijit Nadgouda on October 5th, 2006.

An aspect of web design that can make or break the website’s appeal is the homepage. While a lot of visitors will be carried by the search engines to the insides of the website, most of them will resurface on the homepage if they are looking for more. From corporate …

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The Unknown Blogger and First Impressions

By Jason Spector on June 30th, 2006.

In “Leaving An Impression“, Steven Teskey addresses some important issues regarding brand identity and your perception in the greater on-line universe. But just as important as your lasting impression is your first impression, which is the foundation of the following post.

When communicating with other bloggers through their web sites, …

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Leaving An Impression

By Steven Teskey on June 19th, 2006.

We all know of our presence on the web, every action we take may be considered good or bad in the eyes of any person that takes witness. The Internet is a history of our interactions with the rest of the world. So why should any of us really care about anything that I’ve just said? Simple, how we act leaves an impression on anyone that interacts with us or anything/anyone associated with us.

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