Posts tagged with Web Design
New Year, New Theme
Hi 2012, nice to meet you. I took a small break from writing this blog at the end of last year to revise the design a bit. Now that I have a few months' worth of work experience under…
Don't Design and Code
There has been an ongoing debate on whether designers—web designers, to be specific—ought to be able to code their designs. This article, for instance, re-ignites the debate. I guess the combination of designers moving onto the web en…
Readability, or the Lack Thereof
Call it an experiment gone wrong, or an overzealous symphony of clashing font properties; I've had more than one person complain that this blog's text isn't that readable, and that while the styles are…
Frustrating CSS Animations
I want to like CSS3 animations: they seem cleaner than relying on setTimeout() or setInterval()-based Javascript animations, generally run faster and are optimized by the browser, sometimes even hardware accelerated. If I want smooth animations in a mobile browser,…
The Incessant Whine of Web Designers
I can't be the first person to think that web designers - often, freelancers as a group - spend more time and energy telling everybody else that that their work is important. In particular, it seems like once…
Web Typography, then and Now
I realized today at work that this site's title font-face wasn't loading. Figuring a long night ahead of debugging the WebFont Loader that's trying to grab the Raleway font (it is quite elegant, the…
