Designing the Web from the Content out
The web is a content delivery medium; the more effectively we can deliver the content to our target audience, the more effective our website will be for our business. So, if the web is a content delivery medium, shouldn't content be the most important element of our design and development process and not the design?
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Microsoft sets Email design back 5 years
With the release of Outlook 2007, Internet Explorer will no longer be used as the HTML rendering engine from within Outlook, instead using the Microsoft Word rendering engine within the Office suite. While this more clearly separates the browser from the operating system for anti-trust reasons, it has a negative impact on HTML email newsletters.
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Designer versus Developer: Round 3
The web has changed, and so has the art of creating web sites. Few visual designers are natural programmers, and as a result, visualizing how to work with markup, CSS and a range of programmatic techniques to create beautiful design is difficult. So how do creative designers learn to be artistic yet functional?
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Beauty & The Web
As a follow on from "The Dao Continues" in May 2005, I'm going to return to the topic of design, form and function on the web as it is often a topic for lengthy discussion between clients, designers and developers. It was sparked by a question one of our design partners asked me today - "so how come there are so many attractive sites out there that seem to be html based".
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Professional Websites Build Trust
"The internet now plays a critical role in most consumers' decisions to purchase or hire a service," said Rodger Armstrong, from Easily.co.uk. "It's great to see that small businesses and tradesmen are increasingly realising that having a professional website is vital to their business.
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The Dao Continues
It's time to throw out the rituals of the printed page, and to engage the medium of the web and its own nature.
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