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Design Your Content ~ Part 2

By Andrew Faulkner on April 11th, 2007.

As promised, Part 2 is here. For those of you who missed it (or for those of you who have a memory like one of those holey metal kitchen gadget things), Part 1 discussed the reasons and philosophies behind designing from the inside out. Part 2 now aims to …

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Are Gradients Great?

By Matt Davies on March 27th, 2007.

The wonder of the gradient – one colour blending into another colour. I’m sure we have all used them and we are all totally familiar with them. The reason for bringing the use of the gradient to your attention is to see if we can get your current views on …

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Design your content ~ Part 1

By Andrew Faulkner on March 25th, 2007.

Any designer worth their salt knows that designing a website is much more than creating a visually attractive design in Photoshop. It is about aesthetics but more about the aesthetics and presentation of the content.

How many times have you seen a website with brilliant graphics that let themselves down with …

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On Tiled Patterns

By Andrew Faulkner on February 28th, 2007.

The tiled pattern background is and always has been a staple design technique. My first recollection of the trend was the faithful (but desperately unoriginal) company name slanted and tiled behind the wrapper area. Faceparty was probably the most famous for using this effect. Similar social sites sprang up, …

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Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…

By Matt Davies on January 5th, 2007.

“Web 2.0” is a much discussed and debated phrase. It was in Time Magazines Top 10 Buzz Words of 2006. Apparently (according to wikipedia - so this must be right), the phrase was coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004 and “refers to a perceived or proposed second generation …

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Interview with Nicolò Volpato | He who designed PhotoMatt

By Andrew Faulkner on December 5th, 2006.

Welcome Nick. It’s a pleasure to chat. For those that don’t know you, could you say a few words about yourself.
Hi Andrew. It’s a pleasure for me too. Thank you for this opportunity. This is actually my first interview. My name is Nicolò Volpato, …

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A Blast From The Past – The Return Of The Favicon

By Matt Davies on December 4th, 2006.

Favicons, you remember them, the little icons seen next to he URL on browsers such as Safari and Firefox. If you use Internet Explorer then you may have noticed them in your favourites folder. In short, they are tiny icons which help you to identify websites.

So …

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Gloss V2.0 Sweeps In?

By Andrew Faulkner on November 14th, 2006.

A nice old skool article on one of the loveliest of trends: Gloss. Glass. Aqua.

Whatever you call the shiny trend you can’t deny its popularity. One could say Apple pioneered the look some years ago now. But as of late I’ve seen designers go to more effort to produce a …

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Flash and Accessibility

By Mike Bishop on November 13th, 2006.

There has been a pretty heavy backlash against Flash since it’s inception. As a designer first and a programmer second, I understand the importance of very heavy branding and the need for standards once it is deployed. Today’s CMS laden world of the internet has obviously set a mandate for …

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