Whether it’s for a high fashion magazine, an advertisement for a new product, a marketing promotion, or just for your new Facebook photo, we all end up retouching photos on occasion. With a few Photoshop techniques, you can change a boring, flawed…
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Design decisions are sometimes considered qualitative, nebulous matters that should be approved by advisory boards, outsourced to consultants, or in some cases left to total guesswork. Decisions regarding headlines, colors, imagery, and writing are often put through an arbitrary approval process where…
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All sophisticated design patterns throw up the same fundamental question — is there a concrete advantage to using it in the first place? Without understanding the benefits, it could be very easy to think that it’s just a pointlessly verbose and over-engineered solution, or that it’s only following some kind of fashion.
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At design school we were all taught about classes and IDs, using . and # respectively, to directly target elements. That’s enough control to build a functional website — but it’s not flexible enough to handle a complete design shift. It also creates a lot more work than needed by using presentational values within markup. Let’s take a look at an alternative approach to targeting those difficult-to-get-to elements and when the use them.
Today’s episode is the first part of a talk on web typography I’ve given in various forms, most notably at Web Directions South 2010: Setting standards-friendly web type.
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You may have heard some discussion about “longdesc” recently which spiked when much debate broke out on whether to keep it in the HTML5 specification. Unless you’re a “veteran” web professional, you may not even heard of “longdesc”. So what is it, you ask, and should you be using it? Let’s examine.
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Following straight on from the last article in this series on color, Color Theory 101, we’re now going to take a better look at the RGB and CMYK color wheels.
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A common technique in typesetting and design is to mix typefaces. This needs to be done with a bit of grace to ensure the addition of the second (or third) typeface doesn’t clash with the primary face of the work, and the design as a whole. Let’s take a look at some of the common considerations worth making when typesetting with multiple typefaces.
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Are you making web forms that are inadvertently driving people to frustration? Create form zen with these three considerations.
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Visually hiding content on a web page, usually textual content, is at times a viable technique in web design and development. It can be done for several reasons, most importantly, to improve the experience of a screen reader user. Other reasons include improving readability when CSS cannot be rendered, and improving search engine optimization (SEO).
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