When your muse packs up and walks away - Ways to temp them back
When falling into the void of the designless mind, what can we do to help ourselves. Getting ’stuck’ with design can have a negative emotional impact on any good designer and the world can seem a very bleak place.
An answer to overcoming the ’stuck’ with design dilema can often be simply taking a break or going for a walk (to relax, not to carry on brooding). If this not enough and your muse seems forever departed, kick off your shoes, pump up the text-size, lean back and read.
“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention” - William Shakespeare
Fighting Off Design Stagnation by Jason Santa Maria and 8 Web Design Tactics to Help You When You’re Stuck by Matthew Inman.
X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2
The competition to become the next markup language for the Web is heating up. This article takes a look at what’s cool and what’s uncool about the competing technologies.
A finalist in the SXSW Web Awards
No, not this site but the redesign of Kettering Borough Councils website, which went live mid may, 2006. I’m pleased as punch, if not a little shocked, to be in the finals of the CSS category, which I quote:
Showcases sites that push the boundaries of CSS coding technology, bringing together top-notch design and content with standards compliant and accessible code.
The 10th Annual SXSW Web Awards uncover the best new websites and celebrate those who are building and implementing tomorrow’s online trends, well that’s what they say and who am I to argue?
This is something else, isn’t it?!
This means that I (or Jadu rather) receive two complimentary registrations to attend SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Although there’s not a hope in hell I can afford to go to the US and take up the offer.
Winners in all categories will be announced at the 10th Annual SXSW Web Awards Ceremony, presented by Adobe on Sunday 11th March.
Dynamic CSS Style-Sheets and Web Design
Can you imagine running a website with hundreds of pages off pure, static, html? Without a single bit of server-side code? No PHP, Perl, Ruby, or even SHTML? What about a site with hundreds of thousands of pages? or millions? Of course not.
So why do you put up with static CSS files then?!
Not only is Web 2.0 not just about looks, it’s also originally about clean code and putting the power of design in the hands of the coder.
We have no idea why it’s taken so long for this to get through, but for some reason, people still aren’t getting it. Dynamic web languages exist for a reason. Use them. Everywhere.
- from the NeoSmart files, Dynamic CSS Style-Sheets and Web Design. A new door opens, thanks NeoSmart for such a great article.