Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas is a fascinating flash page that makes your cursor into a painting tool. Letting you paint in the style of Jackson Pollock as you move around the page. A mouse click changes the color or the paint you’re using.
Filippa Smedhagen Sund has a portfolio site that is a must see. The unique user interface is controlled by the user clicking and dragging to move from one photo to the next. The part that I found most interesting is that you can scroll up and down as well. Where side to side moves between photos in collection, up and down moves between collections.
To me as a designer, one of the signs of a superior website is that I don’t stop and think about how it’s done. I don’t identify it as a Flash site, or think about the CSS structure. That’s what I see here, just a beautiful presentation of photographs.
David Airey, guest blogging at Liz Strauss’ blog, writes a fascinating post on The 5 Hats of Graphic Designers.
Before computers entered the mix, the production of print material was firmly in the hands of graphic designers and printers. It took a very clued-in client to have any idea about the print-production process. Therefore, people were mentally prepared to pay substantial amounts for their logo designs, brochures and annual reports.
The problem solving hat that he describes can be an important hat. One that too often is overlooked. A good problem solver can really smooth out problems in a design and production workflow. Work out those problems, and productivity and morale can be noticeably improved.
h/t to David Airey at his own site.
JavaTechniques is a nice site with, to quote it’s author, “a small, but growing collection of Java howto’s and examples“. It’s also a nice example of how to put together a collection of content over time with WordPress as the CMS.
Have you noticed the attribute “ilo-full-src” appearing in your code when when working in WordPress with Firefox? You likely have the ImgLikeOpera extension installed. Disable it and everything should work fine. I don’t know why it’s causing the addition of this odd bit of code, but it seems to be doing just that.
I just thought this was interesting, and yes, I didn’t know a browser could render some of those.