Industry News
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Designers: The Client’s Guide
I came across this nifty article via Jeff Croft‘s link blog. It overviews some of the things a client can do to make being a designer an enjoyable experience. Most of it is common sense for the designer types.. Trust us, focus on the design from the customer’s perspective, etc. The best part of the [...]
Phasing Out Support For IE6
Not a week goes by that I don’t wish Internet Explorer 6 would just disappear from the world’s computers. It’s incorrect interpretation of the box model, lack of support for png transparency, and countless bugs transform the task of designing for the web into an obstacle course. This 7 year old brick of a browser [...]
