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I am currently working on a new WordPress theme. The reason for doing it is a recent observation regarding the blog design — scrolling large lists of blog posts discourages from exploring individual (and often older) blog entries. Long list of articles are acceptable in archive pages, but the homepage should always be the simplest point for navigation. Do you have any name suggestions?
Amazing and entertaining lectures by the outstanding Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman — explaining how the physicists try to view and understand the world. This is also why I love blackboard and chalk.
Name it how ever you prefer, but that is indeed true that writing regular posts or blessays takes hours while ideas and cool things are all over my mind. Let’s see how this works out. p.s. using MiniPosts plugin by Erigami Scholey-Fuller.
Sorry for such a long heading, but it is the question which by itself is an answer to those trying to understand how the web design is different from the graphic design.
Designer and writer Armin Vit recently asked “[W]hat web sites could be considered landmarks for our profession?”. Ideally one should be able to name
A visual solution that not only enables, but also transcends, the message to become memorable in the eyes and minds of viewers.
He lists few examples from the field of graphic design: “Milton Glaser’s Dylan poster. Paul Rand’s IBM logo. Paula Scher’s Public Theater posters. Massimo Vignelli’s New York subway map. Kyle Cooper’s Seven opening titles”. Read more »
Update (October 15, 2008): Sans-serif Racer has been updated with improved CSS (and fixed IE7-only bug), enhanced design and support for the default image alignment classes. Get it here. If you are updating, be sure to back-up the old theme files.
While tweaking the Times Racer theme which is currently used in this blog, I was fascinated by how the sans-serif typeface and the aligned positioning of different elements made it look really harmonic and solid.
After hours of PHP, HTML and CSS trickery, the new theme was named Sans-serif Racer and ready for the release. It features unique border elements, light background shading and, similarly to Agneka Simple, one base color which can be easily adjusted. Read more »
It is a common trend among many web designers and developers to use h1 tag for a logo of a website. Although such decision has no impact on the visual presentation of the content, it drastically diminishes the semantic power of h1 tag.
Every page on the web can be viewed as a single document. Hypertext enables linking and organizing them into groups and sets, which requires that each document has a clear purpose and structure.
Domain names are unique identifiers of those different groups of documents and are the broadest description of their content. Therefore usually they already include the name of a business, person or product (I will refer to them as ‘logos’). Read more »
Times Racer is a WordPress theme which you can currently see on this blog. I have always thought that sans-serif typefaces (like Helvetica, Arial or Verdana) are the best for readability on the screen. However the increasing use of font anti-aliasing among different operating systems can be a good reason to reevaluate this assumption.
Breaking the rules that were once considered the only reasonable way of doing something is very hard, especially for designers. But it is also very mind-opening at the same time — to realize the unbounded beauty of the design choices and opportunities. Read more »
What do you think is the Invention Of the Year according to the Time Magazine and it’s Best inventions team that has been arguing about the nominees and speaking to the actual inventors since the early September?
It is a mobile phone with which you can make calls, write messages, add phone numbers in a contacts list, listen to music and watch videos, access the web and view the street maps. I am not kidding.
The list was chosen by a team of experts lead by Lev Grossman. In this video he explains the process of choosing The Best Inventions Of the Year. Just a note: at the very beginning you can clearly see how the Macintosh computer and the iPhone has made his work much more organized. I kid, I kid. Read more »
I have created a very simple and clean WordPress theme which uses only one base colour (which you can set), no images, fluid layout and doesn’t require any plugins.
It was built to illustrate the power of Konstruktors CSS snippets for creating grid based layouts. View screenshots and read more about Agneka Simple.
