Posts tagged with http requests
- 2012 Feb
CSS Only Drop Down Menu
No more javascript or hacks. Learn how to create a usable html + css only drop down menu. Continue reading
- 2012 Jan
Book Review: Smashing Book 2
Finished reading Smashing Book 2 and I got disappointed. It looks good, feels good, covers a variety of topics, but to me it just doesn’t work. Continue reading
- 2012 Jan
So… I Finally Redesigned My Site
Took me a while but I finally managed to redesign this site. Four years is enough time, people change and so must this blog. Continue reading
- 2011 Jul
HTML Coding For E-mail Marketing
Creating a successful e-mail marketing campaign requires several items: a valid product or service to offer, selected target audience and, to make everything work, a fail-proof html. Continue reading
- 2011 Jun
Book Review: Hardboiled Web Design
Andy Clarke’s long-waited book, Hardboiled Web Design, brings new ideas on website development. It’s packed with HTML5 and CSS3 but with a different take. A hard-ass approach using the latest, emerging technologies. Continue reading
- 2011 Jun
Creating Expandable Banners with Flash and Javascript
A very popular ad type in portals and blogs, the expandable banner is a useful technique to display more content to a banner. It’s a very simple concept: the banner initially starts with a standard size and then increase when the user interacts (rollover or click) with it. Continue reading
- 2011 Feb
Please Start From The Beginning…
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of doing some transcription work for the podcast called “Please start from the beginning…“, a video series exploring the career paths and experiences of web industry professionals. Continue reading
- 2011 Jan
Photoshop: Quick Guide to Smart Object & Smart Filters
Smart Object and Smart Filter are two extremely useful features in Photoshop that will boost your design productivity. This is an easy to master technique that go hand in hand with any type of project. Continue reading
- 2010 Jun
Cross Browser Testing Resources
Following up on my article about using or not IE6, I’ve selected a few tools to help you test your website on different browsers. Most of them are free and very easy to use. Continue reading
- 2010 Mar
Book Review: Logo Design Love
If you are into branding and logos then you probably know David Airey. His knowledge in the graphic design field has generated two well known and popular blogs. In the book Logo Design Love, David covers brand indentity and logo design in an exciting and comprehensive way. Continue reading
- 2010 Feb
How to Make the Most of Design Tutorials Without Losing Your Soul
Design blogs are a great source of articles, news and resources – specially if you use mainstream softwares like Photoshop and Illustrator. One of the most popular posts, and the one I’d like to discuss here, are the tutorials and how good or bad it can affect you as a designer. Continue reading
- 2009 Dec
Know Your Type: Part 2 – Type Categories
In this second part of typography articles we are going to learn the categories in which a type can be classified. Knowing the terms and characteristics of these groups can help you in the process of selecting the appropriate type for your project. Continue reading
- 2009 Dec
Book Review: Making and Breaking the Grid
Making and Breaking the Grid, by Timothy Samara, is an analysis of the construction and deconstruction of grid-based designs. Featuring a comprehensive showcase of works in different media and across several decades. Continue reading
- 2009 Nov
Portfolio: Hooke & MacDonald
Hooke & MacDonald is one of the major real estate agencies in Ireland, specially in the new homes market. They requested 4pm to come up with a new website that is modern in looks and features, reflecting the same high quality standards they have been keeping since 1967. Continue reading
- 2009 Oct
Why Should I Care About IE6?
Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera. Developing websites to match all these browsers is no easy job. And don’t even start talking about the different release versions. You can’t force your visitor to use a specific software but your budget is limited and you can’t create a whole new html for each one of them. Continue reading
- 2009 Oct
Know Your Type: Part 1 – Anatomy
Typography is a field that is quite new to me. Coming from a developer background, I did not study type the way graphic designers do. Luckily, today we have great books and various websites approaching this subject. Continue reading
- 2009 Sep
3 Image Techniques To Speed Up Your Website
In this post I’ll show you 3 useful techniques to speed up the display and download of images on your website: Css Sprites, Image Maps and Inline Images. By using these techniques you will reduce the number of http requests needed to view all resources of your html. A good way to quantify the pros and cons of using these approaches is to download the Firefox Addon called YSlow. Continue reading
- 2009 Sep
Book Review: Don’t Make Me Think!
What comes to your mind when you think about usability in web design? “Less clicks is better”? “Design to the average user”? “Content is king”? “Users leave your website if it doesn’t load in X seconds”? If you take any of these as a rule for your websites then you need to read this book: Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug. Continue reading
- 2009 Sep
Portfolio: Coldwell Banker Ireland
Coldwell Banker is a world wide known real estate company with a wide range of property markets such as Residential Homes, Apartments, Land, Holiday Homes as well as Industrial, Commercial and Retail. Their Irish branch, Coldwell Banker Ireland, contacted 4pm to create a new portal for their head office where the users could find all information about the Irish agencies and properties available. Continue reading
- 2009 Sep
How to Photograph Textures For Websites
It’s great to see how much the use of textures in websites has increased in the past months. They are an effective way of adding flavour and fun to the design. I love taking pictures of walls, bricks, or surfaces around the city and analyse the pattern that they bring to the whole subject. In this article I’ll share some tips that I try to put in practise when photographing textures. Continue reading
- 2009 Aug
15 Amazing Beer Bottle Designs
From all the different fields of print design the one that always gets my attention is the beer bottles design. It’s a saturated market and all brands want to attract their consumers. To stand out from other packages in the shelf, the design has to be very creative. Here I’ve made a selection of 15 beer bottles, labels and packaging design that will inspire you to design outside the box and make your work stand out. Cheers! Continue reading
- 2009 Aug
Portfolio: iWord
In this project I was requested to not only redesign their current page but to come up with 2 animated banner ads, which will be featured on the main portals in Ireland. The company, iWord is specialized in mobile messaging solution and has been on the market since 2004. Continue reading
- 2009 Aug
Book Review: Sexy Web Design
Have you ever wondered if your design process is the right one for your projects? Have you ever thought that maybe there’s a step missing or maybe a specific phase that needs more emphasis on? After doing some research on the subject I found out that Elliot Jay Stocks, a very cool designer from the UK, had recently written a book about this called Sexy Web Design published by Sitepoint, a cool Aussie based book publisher and web & design reference website. Continue reading
- 2009 Aug
Random Illustrations: Part 1
Random Illustrations is going to be a series of posts featuring my drawings on random subjects. Hope you enjoy it! Continue reading
- 2009 Aug
Great Websites for Vintage Resources & Inspiration
Vintage - or Retro – design is the style that uses techniques, colours or shapes used in the past. I am a big fan of this style and in this post I am going to point out some of the best websites to find great vintage material – from illustrations and photos to tutorials and resources. Continue reading
- 2009 Jul
Book Review: Thinking with Type
I must admit that typography wasn’t always my favourite field in design. Until a couple years ago fonts and texts were mere supporting actors of the design movie. My mind changed when I finally realized that typography is as important as the shapes, the colours and the styles used. One of the books that helped me get there was Thinking with Type, by Ellen Lupton. Continue reading
- 2009 Jul
Creating Your Own Portfolio Website – Single Page, Full Site or Blog style?
After spending several months developing this website and facing different issues throughout the project, I’ve learnt a few things about the process of building a portfolio website. The first big decision is to define what sort of website you are going to implement, they all have their pros and cons, but which one is right for you? Continue reading
- 2009 Jul
Book Review: The Brand Gap
Branding books don’t have to be huge or full of complicated theories, they can be fun, practical and inspiring. The Brand Gap, by Marty Neumeier, is a fast-reading book containing a good amount of definitions – good enough to not make you dizzy – and great visual examples of today’s branding reality. Continue reading
