I‘m an Interface Designer and Web Developer from Germany. Here are some example of my work at my one-man company
While styling unordered text lists for my blog I was searching for a way to change the color of the bullets. There is no way to achieve this with the standard list style types if you don’t want to use additional markup. But there’s a solution by only using CSS – and it’s all CSS 2.1, so even IE 8 understands that.
During the weekend I thoroughly enjoyed reading the »8 Faces« magazine edited by Elliot Jay Stocks. I have to say it’s a long time since I had so much pleasure browsing and reading a magazine from cover to cover. So I felt to write a couple of lines about it.
Design for the best browser available, use the latest and greatest techniques and degrade gracefully from there on. Don’t be shy and add JavaScript workarounds for bad browsers.«
Amen. This is what Eric Eggert suggested lately and he is totally right. Don’t spend too much time on making your site look good in IE6 and IE7. They will die. Spend your clients money reasonably, that means in future proof browsers.
Some time ago Tim van Damme blogged about -webkit-font-smoothing and suggested to use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased to improve font rendering in Safari on Mac. At this time Safari 4 was around and it seems like the new Safari 5 has improved on standard font rendering.
A couple of weeks ago, my buddy Ro asked me to redesign his Blog. Up to now he used a modified free Wordpress theme that served the purpose. But he wanted an individual theme with more personality and less unnecessary sidebar stuff und clutter filling up the page.
Remember that the original problem that CSS sprites solved was having too many HTTP requests for images. Data URIs also solve that problem, and solve it in a much more manageable way. Instead of using a single extra request to get the large sprite image, you use zero extra requests to get the images to use. What’s more, there’s no need to combine all of the images – you can keep the images separate and use them as normal background images.«
Read the full article on Data URI by Nicholas C. Zakas here. I’m not fully convinced if it fits my workflow but it’s really interesting nonetheless.
When I read Tim van Damme’s great article on »24 ways« about CSS animations last year, I wasn’t only impressed by what he came up with, but also immediately felt that I had to play with stuff like this on my own. So I started playing with CSS3 animations on a bookshelf.
Well, it needed more than a few showers and not only April to get this website done. Working on this since February, I finally have an almost finished new Blog. In the end, I bit off more than I could chew because I used this redesign not only as an experiment for designing entirely in the browser, …
You cannot not communicate. Every behaviour is a kind of communication. Because behaviour does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behaviour), it is not possible not to communicate.«
With this quote of Paul Watzlawick’s First Axiom of Communication started the Project »52 weeks of UX« back in January, a whole website dedicated to User Experience.