Carina E ST-191
Posted by filipino website designer in Shrewd Portraits on 29. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
The Semantic Grid System: Page Layout For Tomorrow
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 24. Aug, 2011 | 2 Comments
CSS grid frameworks can make your life easier, but they’re not without their faults. Fortunately for us, modern techniques offer a new approach to constructing page layouts. But before getting to the solution, we must first understand the three seemingly insurmountable flaws currently affecting CSS grids. Problems Problem #1: They’re Not Semantic The biggest [...]
New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 24. Aug, 2011 | 4 Comments
For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong: we forget our password, our user name, the email address we signed up with, how we [...]
From Monitor To Mobile: Optimizing Email Newsletters With CSS
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 19. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
HTML email has a reputation for being a particularly tough design medium. So tough, in fact, that many designers regard coding and testing even the simplest email design to be almost as bad as fixing display quirks in Internet Explorer 6, and only slightly better than a tooth extraction. So, it’s with much courage [...]
Breaking The Rules: A UX Case Study
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 19. Aug, 2011 | 7 Comments
I read a lot of design articles about best practices for improving the flow of sign-up forms. Most of these articles offer great advice, such as minimizing the number of steps, asking for as little information up front as possible, and providing clear feedback on the status of the user’s data. If you’re creating [...]
HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 17. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
By now, we all know that we should be using HTML5 to build websites. The discussion now is moving on to how to use HTML5 correctly. One important part of HTML5 that is still not widely understood is sectioning content: section, article, aside and nav. To understand sectioning content, we need to grasp the [...]
Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 17. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
An understanding of typographic etiquette separates the master designers from the novices. A well-trained designer can tell within moments of viewing a design whether its creator knows how to work with typography. Typographic details aren’t just inside jokes among designers. They have been built up from thousands of years of written language, and applying [...]
Introducing Smashing UX Design: Changing The Conversation
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 17. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
In the Web industry, a lot of exciting knowledge and diverse opinions are shared daily. They are delivered in fragments across hundreds of blogs, feeds, Twitter accounts and apps. In addition, the number of topics seems to multiply daily. We are building and designing for moving targets. Technology is constantly forking and disrupting the [...]
Mastering Photoshop Techniques: Layer Styles
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 17. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
Layer Styles are nothing new. They’ve been used and abused again and again. Despite their ubiquity, or perhaps because of it, many designers do not yet realize the full potential of this handy menu. Its beauty lies in our ability to create an effect and then copy, modify, export, hide or trash it, without [...]
How To Build A Better Web Application For Your Business
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 17. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
Are you fed up with hearing about yet another Silicon Valley Web application built with fairy dust and funded by magic pixies? If so, this post is for you. Most of us will never get to work on a Web application that is funded by venture capital and for which the business aims are [...]
