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Signed and sealed with a design signature

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 26 August, 2008 to the design and art subset

A lovely euphemism for rehashing previously used design methods and even raw code: it's called your design signature: If you've designed more than five sites in your site, you likely have a design signature too, although it's probably different than most other designers and coders you know. You may not even know you have it, but you do.

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Override Inline Styles from the Stylesheet

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 to the design and art subset

Override Inline Styles from the Stylesheet A way of overriding the override. Useful for CSS monkeys who have to look after someone else's stylesheet until the next website redesign comes along. You read that right. I said override inline styles, and no, I have not been drinking. For the longest time it has bugged me that there was no way to override what someone else had done with ... Read full entry

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Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 6 May, 2008 to the technology subset

Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides Organising and structuring your CSS code, or stylesheets, is just as important as any other aspect of the design process. An article all CSS coders should read.

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Links for 8 December 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 8 December, 2007 to the links subset

A Preview of HTML 5, by Lachlan Hunt. After a mere ten years between drinks, the W3C is gearing up to release version 5 of HTML. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, ... Read full entry

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Beatup

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 7 August, 2007 to the design and art subset

Australia's favourite newspaper (ok, I'm biased, I've written for them once or twice ;), the Sydney Morning Herald has just unveiled a brand new design! Personally I like it, though not everyone shares my opinion! One or two people feel the stylesheet they've used isn't particularly, shall we say, original. I don't know, 100 per cent original stylesheets are pretty hard ... Read full entry

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