Articles tagged with “design”
- More Redesign Rambling: Columns and Sidebars
- After announcing my intention to redesign Perishable Press, I received some great feedback addressing everything from site architecture and navigation to appearance and usability. As the conversations continue, I want to spend some time thinking about usability, navigation, columns and sidebars. The current minimalist design features a single column ...
- Thinking About a Redesign and Trying to Get Unstuck
- I want to redesign Perishable Press. The current design was released around a year ago, and has received numerous compliments and criticisms. Compliments tend to focus on the theme’s minimalist sensibilities, while criticism is generally directed at the design’s poor usability. Personally, I find the “grey-on-black” color scheme to be very inspiring. Others, however, have difficulties reading the content, ...
- Sharpen Your Site by Removing Unwanted Link Border Outlines
- Lately I have noticed several sites that display those unsightly dotted outlines on high-profile link elements. Typically, these link outlines plague various header elements such as banner images, navigational links, and other key features. This behavior frequently haunts highly graphical site designs and is often associated with various image replacement methods that position the original anchor text offscreen, generally far beyond the left edge of the browser window. When visible, such presentations display a ghastly, four-sided dotted ...
- Perishable News: Site Upgrades, Upcoming Interview, and PageRank Update
- Ever since writing that last review article, I have been feeling the need to cut loose, relax, and blog about something a little more “down-to-earth,” like recent things that have been happening around here. If you are new to Perishable Press, rest assured that I try to keep these “site/personal news” update posts down to a minimum. Whenever possible, I ...
- Pimping the Details, Part 1: Post Content
- In today’s highly competitive blogosphere, every edge counts. There are many aspects of a site or blog that can be easily acquired. Fancy themes may be purchased, nifty plugins are freely downloaded, and even snazzy content is immediately available. Indeed, setting up a decent-looking blog is so easy that virtually anyone can do it. Even so, just spend a little time ...
- Minimalist Web Design Showcase: ShaunInman.com
- “Exploring Minimalist Thought and Expression in Contemporary Web Design”
Welcome to our ongoing series of articles exploring minimalism in modern web (and graphic) design. With this post, we continue our exploration of the Web’s most inspiring and intriguing minimalist presentations. Staying true to the spirit of minimalism, each showcase will be kept as clear and concise as possible, focusing on tangible and practical aspects of each featured site. We will discuss aesthetics ...
- Minimalist Web Design Showcase: Equivocality
- “Exploring Minimalist Thought and Expression in Contemporary Web Design”
Welcome to a new series of articles exploring minimalism in modern web (and graphic) design. With this post, we begin our exploration of the Web’s most inspiring and intriguing minimalist presentations. Staying true to the spirit of minimalism, each showcase will be kept as clear and concise as possible, focusing on tangible and practical aspects of each featured site. We will discuss aesthetics and functionality on both sides of ...
- Absolute Horizontal and Vertical Centering via CSS
- Recently, a reader named Max encountered some scrolling issues while implementing our absolutely centered layout technique. Of course, by “absolutely centered” we are referring to content that remains positioned dead-center regardless of how the browser is resized. After noticing the scrollbar deficiency, Max kindly dropped a comment to explain the issue:
[...] the div solution works well, only one problem maybe somebody can help:...
- Mind-Blowing Web-2.0 Design Trends
- The über-trendy “Web-2.0” paradigm seems to be floating quite comfortably throughout the blogosphere these days. In fact, with it’s current mainstream popularity, the Web-2.0 mentality enjoys de facto status as the dominating influence behind modern website development and design. Not too long ago, however, Web-2.0 hovered quietly amidst the thinking of cutting-edge entrepreneurs and developers, as they strove toward freshness, simplicity, and usability.
Before it's rise to media fame, Web 2.0 was merely a loosely defined set ...
- Rethinking Structural Design with New Elements in HTML 5
- [ Keywords: html, design, markup, structure, elements, header, footer, article, section, header, nav ]
HTML 5, also known as Web Applications 1.0, provides new markup elements that will change the way you design your web pages. The new elements replace commonly used divisions in web documents, facilitating an even greater degree of separation between structure (HTML) and presentation (...
- Standards-Compliance Throwdown: MS-IE5/6 DNS/404 Error-Page Redesign
- [ Keywords: Microsoft, MS, IE, DNS, 404, CSS, Error, Monzilla, Explorer, redesign ]
Default DNS Error page for Internet Explorer
First of all, congratulations if you are geeky enough to understand the title of this article. Many would be like, "CSS, MS.. IE, error ..what..?" Whatever. If you get the title, you will get the point of this utterly pointless exercise. If that is the case, ...
- minimalist Theme
- The minimalist theme is crisp and clean. Featuring a three-column satellite menu-page to reduce clutter and streamline usability, the minimalist theme is designed to present site content with sophistication and elegance.
The minimalist theme is XHTML 1.1 strict, employs nearly valid CSS (ha!), and features browser-safe colors and universal fonts all delivered via concise, two-column liquid layout.
Mindfully detailed and carefully prepared, the minimalist theme provides plenty of room for customization and expansion.
This theme is offered absolutely ...
- Digital Flower Maker
- Star Burst Check out the slick online digital flower maker at zefrank.com.