It’s a bit of a lazy post for today, but it is Sunday after all. These are all posts from my favourite design blog Smashing Magazine. Their Monday Inspiration posts are a superb way to get the brain working after the weekend, covering examples of great design from all manner of fields.
Showcase Of Brilliant Comic [...]
Part 1 - Defining the structure
Part 2 - Adding Content and refining the markup
In this final part of the experiment, I’m going to look at applying CSS to the finished markup. Rather than start a new design from scratch, I’ve decided to use an existing design - partly because I already have the images handy [...]
My current project to re-template this blog using semantic markup and microformats has raised some interesting questions.
Why use semantic markup?
There are plenty of good reasons to use semantic markup, the main one being that the markup gives context to the content elements. One of the goals of semantic markup is that the content can be [...]
I made the decision some time back to overhaul my site templates based on best practice principles of web design. Partly inspired by the classic CSS Zen Garden I wanted to be able to switch stylesheets without needing to change the underlying markup. I also wanted to try and avoid making any conceit to design [...]
Amy Hoy thunders through the user experience design methodolgy that she uses giving some excellent insights - especially for the type of designer who fires up Photoshop as the first step in every design task.
My favourite part of the article comes later where she deconstructs some product landing pages using green and red pens [...]
