Opinion

You’re a standardista if… (Friday Fun)

By Andrew Faulkner on April 13th, 2007.

This Friday Fun session pokes a little fun at our beloved industry. All in the name of humour. So, without further ado, you’re a standardista if…

…you’ve ever sent an email to the admin of a website informing them of validation errors.
…you’ve ever spent over half an hour searching for a …

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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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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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Fadtastic in trouble over CSS coding

By Andrew Faulkner on April 1st, 2007.

I received a strange email from the UK Design Board pointing out something I wasn’t expecting. I wanted your thoughts on this. Quoting from the email:

Mr Faulkner,

It has come to our attention that your site is using a potentially offensive colour value in the CSS. The following has been found …

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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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Friday Fun: Search Engine Referals

By Andrew Faulkner on March 23rd, 2007.

If you’re like me, you’ll love finding out what phrases people have used in search engines to get to your site. As a fun end to the week I’ll list a few for fadtastic and ask you to produce your favourites for your site.

Some for fadtastic:

Roman people 2007
Wornout hat…

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Accessibility matters to…

By Andrew Faulkner on March 8th, 2007.

Accessibility, in many people’s eyes, only matters to pernickety web designers/developers. I thought it would be interesting to give some reasons why it matters to many (if not all) people. The list isn’t exhaustive, but a good taster.

So, in no particular order, accessibility matters to…
The Client
Two sides to this story. …

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What’s it all for, anyway?

By Ezekiel Bruni on March 5th, 2007.

I was talking to a friend the other day about design in general. He asked me how web designers get famous. In my experience, the designers don’t often become well known to the world at large, but their work does, and I told him so. Then he asked a question …

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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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Has Viral Email Caught a Cold?

By Matt Davies on February 15th, 2007.

Lets cut to the chase. Lets talk about a Fad which really started with the wide spread use of email applications in the early 00’s. I think it was about 2002 when “viral” became the latest buzz word. I’m talking of course about “viral marketing”. To simplify things I am …

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Friday Fun: Random Sexyness Game Part two

By Andrew Faulkner on February 9th, 2007.

Remember our first Random Sexyness Game?

Same rules apply, although this time (by Tammie’s request) we’re looking for random acts of sexyness involving men and women.

Happy hunting.

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