Innovating ideas and talents can be your ladder to become a millionaire. You do not require a huge capital to invest before you churn huge money. You may come across to various inspiring autobiographies of many self-made billionaires who have earned millions with certain creative jobs. You just need to follow the same principles as they did to earn your first million. Continue reading
It may or may not have escaped your attention that the World Cup is currently underway down in South Africa. For those of you that follow football or even just follow the World Cup, there are plenty of websites to keep up with the latest information.
I have three that I regularly look at and all three for different reasons. Continue reading
Google decided not to fully go ahead with the homepage redesign that was planned for the 10th June. Instead they pulled out after just hours after implementing the change apparently due to pressure from unhappy users.
Reports were saying that on the 6th of May Google would roll out a complete redesign of its main pages according to the Internet Search Corporation.
Yesterday Google announced that it was inline to buy Picnik, for those of you who don’t know Piknik improves your photos with easy to use editing tools, with the capability to apply and create effects, remove red eye and generally alter your photos to get a great picture. Google already own Picasa so this addition is definitely another interesting addition to their portfolio of recent acquisitions. Continue reading
Working for a digital design company you soon hear of web designers love of all things IE6.
When designing a site you want all people that visit your site to see it the same which is why IE6 has been subject to a lot of hacks. Google recently announced that they would join other browsers and no longer support IE6. Googles shift coincides with a lot of problems concerning compatibility and outdated technology and was/is a concern for general security and stability. Continue reading
When HTML 5 finally becomes available and all new tags become fully compatible will be a good day. Front end development will become much more efficient to designers and will result in quicker and more clearer builds. New tag elements are in place to make the site more readable and understandable to anybody who undertakes the project.
The launch of the new iPhone this month made me think about the need to design for mobile browsers.
Since the introduction of Apple’s first iPhone, and companies like Google with their Android platform it has become possible to forget about the “mobile version” (formats like WAP) and just design for HTML instead. Is this really the case though? What else do we need to consider? Continue reading
Since the start of the year I have been looking at emerging trends and new tricks that are becoming popular within the web design industry. With download speeds always increasing and browser/display resolution on the up, the web industry is one of many beneficiaries. 3D web sites, flash and jQuery are all starting to make the most of this and are moving forward and setting new levels in web design.
So what design trends are emerging?
Large Font Face
One of the first things I have noticed is everything is bigger. We are starting to see larger typography. This is emerging from personal portfolios, agencies and product websites. To put in perspective how big font has become I have seen many sites where font size exceeds 36px/em. Big font started to emerge late in 2008 and I predict it will continue for 2009.