Frye / Wiles Blog Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
AKA: Why your image carousel pulling content from posts or pages in Wordpress is not working
We recently ran into a fairly frustrating little issue on a site we were working on. This particular site had a jQuery Cycle gallery on the home page, and it was pulling images from individual pages in Wordpress using query_posts(). Problem was, images in IE would appear and then disappear. This was happening in all versions of Internet Explorer.
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So the Riverside Press Enterprise wrote up a really nice article on us. Thanks guys! (you’re making us blush).
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Every once in a while, there are breakthroughs that are revolutionary in their simplicity and focus. Twitter is an example that comes to mind. For me and in my work, Balsamiq Mockups is just such a breakthrough.
In the world of User Experience Design, there has been some really interesting research and publication on the importance and immense value of sketching in the web and application design process (for more on this, I recommend Bill Buxton’s life-changing book Sketching User Experiences). People, it seems, have a different psychological reaction to sketches during the concept development and experience design process. When something seems quick and rough, people collaborate and think. When presented with ideas that are too fully formed, people will approach them as being complete ideas, and as such will make black or white decisions about them.
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Just saw this on Adobe’s website:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/
This is potentially a game-changer, and we’re really excited! This does not mean that iPhone has started supporting Flash player, but instead that Actionscript applications will compile down to native iPhone apps.
What this means, among other things, is that Frye / Wiles will soon start offering iPhone Application Development as part of our suite of services. If you are interested, please give us a call!
A few days ago Smashing Magazine released 50 High-Quality Icon sets, and they’re glorious indeed. I don’t know why, but I just like combing through the endless icons to see what innovative ways designers are creating these nifty, unique, shiny, candy like icons. There’s definitely a wide range of icons from a Nintendo icon set to my favorite topic, food. So have fun and remember to view the terms of services before using these sweet, sweet icons.
The reoccurring themes this time around are vivid spectrum palettes, ribbon-like elements against sharp angles, solid blacks, and wide open headers. The first two in the trio come from the CSS Heaven gallery, while the third is a personal favorite. At first glace the Racero portfolio reminded me of Web Designer Wall’s Photo Strip tutorial (if you haven’t seen it yet by all means DO). The high contrast ribbon-like texture writhing through the design - - even the little sheen and its soft bends all mirror similar concepts that can be achieve with a few tweaks of the relatively new Photoshop Transform/Warp tool. There’s something about (more…)
If you checked out Smashing Mazagine today, and you should because it’s quite possibly one of the best posts EVER, you’ll notice that Frye / Wiles made the list. Yeah that’s right. A little illustrated marvel made the list in the 404 pages gathered from around the globe—nay, the universe. (more…)
January 20th marked an exciting day for many people in this country. The swearing in of a new president who will bring change and hopefully, change the world view of the U.S. President Obama’s message was change. From his cabinet, the political process, the way this current office is making it easier fo the average citizen to be involved with their government and most importantly, the official White House website (okay, I know it was a little over dramatic, but I had to tie it in to web design somehow). When landing on the front page of Whitehouse.gov, I couldn’t help but notice how nice and clean the website looked. You can tell the new presidency is up to date with their standards.
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If you’re in the market for some new stock vector art then be sure to check out AllSilhouettes.com. They have a few pages full of free downloads with everything from people, animals, and nature to buildings, weapons, and grunge & geometric designs. It’s a quick and easy way to spruce up a existing design or one that’s in progress. And saving yourself some time isn’t so bad either, right? Rather than spending the time to wacom out or live trace some random photo and edit it, you can just experiment with the placement of these puppies right away.
