CSS Tricks has a great post called Cutting Edge Browsers and Their Development Tools. I didn’t know about the Opera’s Dragonfly, I’ll be trying that out soon. It’s a very good comprehensive list that every web professional should see.
Graphic Design: The art and profession of selecting and arranging visual elements-such as typography, images, symbols, and colours-to convey a message to an audience. - Encyclopædia Britannica
I think that that may be just the beginning of what Graphic Design is, but it's as good a place to start as any. Graphic Design is to me a blending of Art and Communication. Creating an elegant and interesting framework with which to present information.
As a Graphic Designer I have to be both an artist who can visualize a design, and a technician who can bring that design to life. It is an odd combination of artistic inspiration and technical know-how, a graphical jack-of-all-trades.
This site is my online sketch book. A place to try new ideas, collect resources for my work, and write about design. As I have time I'll be adding the Resources and Qualifications sections as well as writing in Thoughts on Design.
My most recent writing includes:
Browsers and their tools
CSS Menu Writer
The nice people at WebAssist.com are letting me try out their new CSS Menu Writer extension for Dreamweaver. I got a demonstration of it yesterday, and I’ve been putting it though it’s paces this morning. It is exactly what the title would suggest, a CSS menu writer. Working through four tabbed menus, you can easily create [...]
IE6 bugs, defined
IE 6 actually had the best CSS support of any browser when it first came out… SEVEN YEARS AGO. - CSS-Tricks Chris Coyier at CSS Tricks has written a very nice piece on IE6 CSS bugs. Anyone who’s dealt with these will appreciate this list. Anyone who’s fought with them and didn’t know what they were [...]
How is your Shop Window?
Attitude Design has an interesting take on Home Pages and Shop Windows. Retail shop windows carry massive lessons for home page designers. Take a high street fashion shop for example. The shop window will typically contain the following - the logo of the shop, some attractive graphics, some plastic models displaying a wide range of garments [...]
Keeping up with Design
Somebody asked me a good question today. To paraphrase, it was “what websites do you use to keep up with what’s going on in the industry?”. Here’s the list: While I don’t write about blogging, I do follow what’s going on with that industry. It’s too much of a factor in the web design business not [...]