Archive for July, 2008
Industry Survey
The annual A List Apart Survey is out again. They ask questions related to working conditions, compensation, benefits and competency in order to show trends in the web industry. The survey is slanted slightly towards designers but there is still a benefit for those of us in development. Head over to their website to help [...]
How do you like them apples?
Martin Ringlein uses the pointedly cynical “I got her number” scene from the movie Good Will Hunting to kick off an interesting post on the value of a college degree in web design. He offers some persuasive logic from both sides of the fence before opening the discussion with the question: “Is a degree in [...]
Web design, blogs and statistics
This is a great rundown of statistics on design decisions for the top 50 blogs. It takes into account typography & layout and provides statistics such as placement of the content rail, number of characters displayed per line, and lots of other fine-grained detail. While the data involved may be a bit too fine-grained, it [...]
Firebug for IE
Firebug Lite 1.2 was released today at OSCON. Those in the web design world no doubt are familiar with the Firefox extension that allows you to manipulate javascript, html, css, and the like from a debugging console. The newest version of Lite 1.2 offers enhanced functionality to non-Firefox browsers. For those suffering through debugging IE [...]
15 mistakes made by designers
A really interesting article by Jeff Finley from gomediazine that, though written for designers working in the music apparel industry, makes points that impact the larger design community. Interesting tidbits include: valuing your work (and why you maybe should be charging more) , why you should really care about typography, and other info-taining stuff. (part [...]
