Frye / Wiles Blog Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Dani [designer]
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Posted by Dani [designer]
Posted on 05-07-2008 under Creative Inspiration

www.fullyillustrated.com

1. www.fullyillustrated.com

Currently one my favorite sites for inspiration in 2D, 3D, and Design Layout.

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Justin [programmer]
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Posted by Justin [programmer]
Posted on 03-10-2008 under CSS/HTML Markup, Design, Development, JavaScript / AJAX

When we talk about topics such about CSS, JavaScript, and sometimes even certain image formats (png24, I’m looking at you), and how they render in a client’s browser, we always, or should always also consider cross-browser behavior. This behavior entails many things: CSS rendering, the availability of CSS specific attributes, whether or not the DOM interface will be the same, general JavaScript behavior — the list goes on and on. And, since most discussions about CSS and JavaScript (at least the ones that I am having) also concern this variable nature, I’m coining (maybe I’m the first) a new term to put all of this into a handy little phrase, “Cross-Browser Consistency,” or, in typical programmer fashion, simply, “XBC.”

Let’s take a brief moment to establish a more exact meaning for this phrase. As you may well be aware, the industry commonly talks about cross-browser support, so we’ll differentiate between support and consistency, as well as defining what cross-browser really means, and some other tidbits as to boot.

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Julian [designer]
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Posted by Julian [designer]
Posted on 01-24-2008 under Design, Development, SEO

Content is the most important part of your website. There, I said it.

SEO blog post concerning its importance
Michael Martinez writes about the same thing, I highly recommend reading his post before you begin working on your site.

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Justin [programmer]
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Posted by Justin [programmer]
Posted on 10-11-2007 under Creative Business, Design, Development

Since we, as a firm, and myself particularly, tend to gravitate toward web applications rather than web sites, we often find ourselves challenged to originate new interfaces and layouts that are not only conducive to simplicity and ease in usability, but also focused on achieving whatever, usually monetary, goals that the project may specify.  Because of this, I find myself asking the question of what entails not only an effective, but an intuitive layout.

As the bright ones among you may have inferred, this is a simply a sneak-peak into my next article.  We’ll be discussing layouts centered around two key points: effectiveness, and intuitiveness.

That’s it.  Stick around.

Justin [programmer]
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Posted by Justin [programmer]
Posted on 10-03-2007 under Design, Development

Today, we’re talking about color, its use on the web and how it is (in)effectively rendered cross-browser and cross-platform. (more…)