Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10 years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of design’s print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything.
Dan Willis, Sapient
"In a nutshell, it is a list of the core skills that a web designer should have today. The web has changed in a big way the last few years, and so has the role and skills of a web designer."
Find inspiration in the ridiculous. See technological quirks as opportunities. Try something previously unheard of with your site design. Laugh in the face of convention. Use and abuse CSS in ways never before imagined. Get away with it. And if it doesn’t work, try something else instead.
Paul Annett, Clearleft Ltd
The web has always attracted mavericks and entrepreneurs, and a rocky economy makes the freelance life more desirable (or at least more inevitable) than ever. So what happens when your freelance business starts to grow? How big can you get without getting bad? How can freelancers and small teams compete with traditional agencies? Hip freelancers and cool agency heads will answer questions, compare experiences, and tell their stories.
Jeffrey Zeldman, Happy Cog Studios
Roger Black, Roger Black Studio
Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic
Whitney Hess
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Browser tester and researcher extraordinaire Peter-Paul Koch of Quirksmode visited our office (Yahoo!) in London recently to give a talk about the state of play in the mobile browser world.
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/07/state_of_mobile.html
Introduction to who we are and the reason for the existence of such a thing. Luke discsuses D&AD Student awards and what effect they have on industry, and Tom talks about the use of non-websafe font’s as part of CSS3’s @font-face, and the rise of Typekit. Feature: This month we focussed on trends in design how they are followed in different fields and when they are and aren’t suitable for the audience. Jon introduced the use of the 960 grid system for web designers and we discuss what effect it has on design.
This week on Boagworld: We interview the founder of Digg.com Kevin Rose, take a first look at Codeslam and plan the future of the show.
"Compass author Chris Eppstein shows how Compass and Sass can untangle stylesheets and allow reusable styles, classes, and designs without imposing on the markup."
Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don’t look nice? If so, then The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is for you. A simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning web sites.
Jason Beaird, Cyberwoven
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