Content tagged: Website design

JavaScript-less social share links

Tue, 01/05/2012 - 12:47

Social sharing widgets are everywhere these days and on a growing number of sites they even follow you down the page just so you're blatantly aware of where they are at all times.

As well as just being visual pollution on a webpage, these widgets are resource heavy too, chocked full of extra JavaScript which needs to be loaded for each individual widget - all of which slows your site down!

Introducing: Block - a simple tumblr theme

Tue, 24/04/2012 - 19:45

Today I submitted my first Tumblr theme: 'Block' for review. (I named it 'block' because the main navigation is quite block-like as is the general structure of the overall theme.)

My new website design

Wed, 15/02/2012 - 16:12

This post talks about the latest iteration of my site design and the steps I took in order to produce it. It’s not really about the code I used to create the theme but more the rationale behind the various decisions made, the thoughts running through my head and some general issues I had with my old design.

The main points will be covered as follows:

GotBrief - a site to fuel your creativity.

Tue, 03/01/2012 - 15:19

Over the past couple of months I've been working on a self initiated project: GotBrief.

After attending Build 2011 I was inspired, truly inspired by the various talks and events which took place over the course of the conference. So inspired infact I decided to actually go out and build something, something which would hopefully inspire and help others to go out and create something too.

The new twitter design

Thu, 08/12/2011 - 22:13

Twitter has today launched a major new design of their apps across the board. Interestingly the announcement on http://fly.twitter.com came with a call to download the official mobile apps in order to get access to the new design on your computer, was this to reinforce a mobile first approach? Or perhaps it was just a ploy to get people back into using the official twitter app? Either way, I updated the iOS app & hey presto! The new web design appeared almost instantly.

Website overhaul: new design and development

Sun, 26/06/2011 - 15:48

Last week I released the latest version of designedbythomas.co.uk. If you ever visited the old site then you will see there has been quite a drastic change to the overall theme and structure.

Microsoft urges you to stop using Internet Explorer 6.

Mon, 07/03/2011 - 00:13

On Saturday I, like many other web designers and developers, woke up to some rather pleasing news: Microsoft has started a campaign to finally say goodbye to Internet Explorer 6 (IE6).

The campaign site: ie6countdown.com shows a worldwide map and statistics of the current usage count IE6 is sitting at. As of Feb 2011 the magic number sits at 12% usage worldwide (down 9% on the previous year), with the ultimate goal of reducing this number to less than 1%!

Using CSS3: box-shadow to create a photo vignette.

Sun, 12/12/2010 - 13:32

The CSS3 property: box-shadow allows you to create simple drop-shadows on block level elements within a webpage. The box below shows this effect in action: 

.selector{
box-shadow: 
x-direction
y-direction
blur-amount colour;
}

The box-shadow property also allows you to place the shadow within the element using the inset value, this allows you to create some pretty cool effects including: photo vignettes.

Website design inspiration: designfridge.co.uk

Sat, 24/04/2010 - 18:31

I think we all need a bit of inspiration once in a while, regardless of the field you work in! It is always useful to find a consistent source of inspiration which you can admire whenever a creative block forms over your head.

Not long ago I came across designfridge - a brilliant collection of various different websites and website designers all packaged into a cool clean site.

Website design project finished: Andy Hudson Music

Sat, 27/03/2010 - 19:29

I am very pleased to announce a brand new website design project: andyhudsonmusic.com has just gone live!

The website is part of a complete redesign & rebranding project which aims to increase Andys online presence as well as giving him a more professional and refined brand image to operate under. As well as a new design the new website also comes with increased functionality which gives Andy the ability to easily upload his music tracks to the website himself.

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