Archive for March, 2010

  1. Rydz Design: The WordPress stuff part 1

    I said a while ago that I would write about the Wordpress development that went into the making of this site. It then crossed my mind that it may be a bit too much for one article, forcing me to summarise a lot and skip over the details, so I’m going to break it down into a few articles.

  2. My tools of the trade

    Every designer has his or her own tools that they could not live without. Of course there are certain applications that are considered standard in the web design industry, but what many people miss if the fact that your skills are not defined by the tools you use.

  3. The future of web design

    The web as we all know is constantly moving forward. We’re always finding new and exciting ways to achieve our goals and of course browsers are implementing HTML 5 and CSS 3 modules all the time. So what will be the future of web design?

  4. Evolving a design

    Designing and developing a site from scratch, as I recently did with this one, is a massive undertaking. There’s certainly a lot more to think about than simply redesigning for the content. It’s something I don’t like to do too often.

  5. Pure CSS speech bubbles

    No images or javascript, using only simple mark-up with a splash of border-radius, CSS gradients and generated content Nicolas achieves flexible speech bubbles that work across all major browsers, although things are obviously slightly icky in Internet Explorer, as one would expect.

  6. Web designers and code

    I’ve read a lot of articles recently that talk about why web designers should code. We’re talking (x)HTML and CSS here, not full blown PHP etc. My opinion is why the heck do people think that they shouldn’t. If you’re a web designer then surely you need to know how a web page works?

  7. CSS border radius tool

    Earlier today I came across this very useful tool for writing the CSS for border-radius. It’s not something I would use unless I wanted to specify different values for each corner but I think that’s the point of this tool anyway.