February 2011
20 posts
cascading - (v.) to fall, pour, or rush in
so, while i’m still completely lost on what css (cascading style sheet) has to do with waterfalls, i do know that it can make a webpage look fancier than your mom on a saturday night date with the president…which hopefully only a very select group of people can claim witness to. in the most simple terms, css is the clothing to html. where as you can dress a webpage with html, once...
bare bones
when it comes down to it, the things you really need in a website are what will make or break it. without (and in many cases, even with) a solid execution of these bare bones, anything else added to the site will simply be clutter. here is my list of what those basics are and how they should be:
1. layout - should be consistent from page to page, unless it makes sense not to, but in this case...
http://yeasayer.net/codeorgan/ →
houston’s free press summer fest lineup was announced this week, and one of the headliners is yeasayer, whom i saw play an outstanding live show at sxsw in 08. since i haven’t heard any of their more recent music, i decided to do some catching up, which brought me to this gem here. nerdy? yes. awesome? double yes.
from the site:
THE CODEORGAN ANALYSES THE *BODY* CONTENT OF ANY...
getting around
this week’s list of websites revolves around site navigation. getting from point a to point b (and back to point a, and then to point c, then to point c-2, then to point q, back to point c….you get the idea). here are some sites which should make you think more about how website navigation should work, both in form and function.
aardman - the guys who brought you wallace &...
“Our Father in heaven,
Reveal who you are.
Set the world right;
Do...”
– (via popestvictor)
Watchweandthecolor:
Khoda
by Reza Dolatabadi What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards. Khoda is a psychological thriller; a student project which was seen as a ‘mission impossible’ by...
learn from your mistakes as well as others'
last week i posted a few good websites to take notes from. today i bring you a shortlist of some terrible website designs, also to take notes from. again, i’m not choosing for content (otherwise you’d see sites like twitter and fml on here), but purely for their structure (or lack thereof). some of these are even sites that i frequent.
the design blog - this is an obvious first...
Watchit’s not often you come across recognizably good art that is unmistakably christian. thanks salomon.
weandthecolor:
Silent Transitions
Fubiz: “A personal project with this short-film entitled Silent Transitions on behalf of the realizer and motion-designer Solomon Ligthelm, inspired by the concept of silence and 2 extracts of the Bible. A superb demonstration with this shooting in Canon...
“Culture is something that is done to us. Art is something we do to culture.”
– Carl Andre (via popestvictor)
http://pinterest.com/ →
pin + interest = pinterest
swiss-miss mentioned pinterest in this post about a headboard. yes, i was afraid that it might just be a website about home decorating, but i am glad i checked it out. it’s a good place to get inspired. the sorting feature is nice. check it.
