Category: Design

December 19, 2011

Responsive Web Design Techniques

Filed under: Resources,Responsive Web Design - 19 Dec 2011

In the always awesome 24ways.org (the advent calendar for web geeks) there have been three excellent articles on specific Responsive Web Design techniques so far this month.

The first is by Jeremy Keith and …

January 1, 2011

Responsive Images – solving the image overhead problem

Filed under: Responsive Web Design,Web development - 01 Jan 2011

When implementing responsive web design techniques, one issue raised by detractors is that the largest image needed for any layout gets downloaded automatically resulting in potentially large bandwidth overhead – an undesirable side effect especially for mobile devices that …

December 31, 2010

The Year in Pictures – USA Today 2010

Filed under: Responsive Web Design,Web development - 31 Dec 2010

http://projects.usatoday.com/gallery/news/2010-news/

“A really nice example of responsive web design from an unexpected source.” – via http://adactio.com/links/tags/responsive

A photo gallery website using responsive web design techniques.

November 15, 2010

Just say “no” to speculative design

Does your web design company do speculative design work?
We don’t.

What I’m talking about is creating potential website layouts to show a prospect how their new website might look during the sales process. It’s not uncommon in our experience …

August 6, 2010

Responsive Design – the future of web design

We’ve entered a new period of transition on the web, just after things seemed to be getting comfortable. I mean things were nice. We reached a least-common-denominator screen size of 1024px. (Good riddance 800 x 600!) All the modern browsers …

December 4, 2009

24Ways.org: Working with RBGA Color

Filed under: CSS,Design,Web development - 04 Dec 2009

The awesome “advent calendar for web geeks” can be found at 24ways.org. December is my favorite time of year for many reasons, one of which is getting to read this great series of 24 web-related articles from around the …

June 23, 2009

Web browser testing: It doesn’t have to look the same

Filed under: Browser testing,Design,Web development - 23 Jun 2009

A trend is clear in the web design and development world: web sites do not need to look the same in all web browsers.

An Event Apart Boston 2009 “the design conference for people who make web sites” just wrapped up …

March 1, 2009

Good Design in Ten Commandments

Filed under: Design - 01 Mar 2009

This list of the ten most important criteria for good design by Dieter Rams is applicable to web site design, web development, web applications, and software development even though he’s writing in the context of physical products. Wonderful. …

June 24, 2008

CodeGeek’s Design Capabilities Are Broader Than Our Portfolio

Filed under: Design - 24 Jun 2008

If you are looking to have a website developed or re-designed, you are most likely confronted with a wide variety of web development firms from which to choose.  Additionally, you may feel that there are equally as many design possibilities …

February 3, 2008

DYK (Did You Know?) – part 2

Filed under: Design - 03 Feb 2008

Web site development can be categorized into two distinctive types: E-commerce and Informational.

We previously explored e-commerce website development. This month we will look at important considerations for informational websites.

A great informational website is the difference between a web …

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