DesignWell

I’ve been familiarizing myself with WordPress 2.5’s new media gallery. If you’ve visited my blog before, you know I don’t upload many images, but I’m hoping to upload many images to my wife, Rachel Steely’s website. I was annoyed to find out that the default image posting size is medium (which is about 300px). On top of that, if you select full size, it doesn’t mean full size. It means your WordPress theme’s column width. So unless you are using Kubrick your media size will not be your column width. (more…)

On Saturday, February 9 at 11:30 am, I spoke at BarcampIndy 2008 on Graphic Web Design and Cascading Style Sheets. All presentations were broadcast on UStreamTV.

The premise of my presentation was to show an overview of the process between layout in Illustrator and PhotoShop to coding in HTML and CSS. I find that web design is often segmented between the coders and graphic designers. I propose that the best outcome can come from bridging that gap. I do this in my daily workplace and try to show tips and techniques for others to bridge that gap. The time slot was only a half hour, so I could not go into coding detail, but only point to tutorials via links. (more…)

I originally was excited when I saw WebHotOrNot.com (Yes, now you can say I’m a uber-geek). Similar to the photos of people that your friends used in high school, Hot Or Not?, you can rate the graphic design of web pages. Unfortunately, it crops each snapshot of the page off at 768 pixels (I believe).

It depresses me to click through most of these. I average clicking five or so. They are all text/information heavy and 90% look like prepackaged themes of blue, black and white. I realize that I’m posting from a blog with the default WordPress theme, Kubrick, but I’m selling anything. My blogs are still in a personal phase–I don’t even have a domain for each of my blogs except the poetry knook.