For this project I went with a “scribbled illustration” look which turned out to be a big hit with the client. Every illustration and icon on the website was done on my Wacom tablet.
The site is powered by Wordpress with a completely custom theme.
In Defense of Eye Candy is one of my favorite articles from A List Apart. I tend to read it once every few months as motivation to keep making things that look good and are easy to use.
There are plenty of web developers who tend to lean towards “function over form” and I can agree in some cases…but, as the article mentions, form is just as important a concept in the world of usability.
We’re very pleased to have ICCS on board and we look forward to building their website.
Immaculate Conception Catholic School is committed to the teaching of Catholic Christian doctrines and values. We are dedicated to providing quality academic programs integrated with religious truth and values. The administration and faculty pledge to encourage the appreciation of learning and seek to develop in each student a love for God and the Holy Catholic Church, a profound respect for persons, and a thirst for knowledge.
A designer’s portfolio website is absolutely essential in attracting new clients. There’s no better place to showcase your skills, past work, and technique for potential customers to peruse prior to making a commitment. Showcasing your work needs to be a professional, clean, and simple process that is wrapped in the perfect design itself. I’ve gathered 25 great web and graphic designer portfolio websites. These represent some of the best design portfolio sites on the web. Take a glance and let me know your favorites. (And sorry for the self promotion but I’ve started this list with my very own portfolio site).
http://visualswirl.com/inspiration/designer-portfolio-website/
According to Electronista iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) now account for a little over 2% of all web traffic.
Mobile Apple hardware reached a milestone today as new findings showed iOS cracking two percent share of the web for the first time. The iPad, iPhone and iPod reached 2.06 percent of Net Applications’ traffic study worldwide and were in even higher use in certain areas. In English-native and other more mobile-driven countries, the share was disproportionately higher, ranging from 3.4 percent in the US to almost 10 percent in Singapore.
It’s been about a year since the last version of the site, so about a week ago I decided that was long enough.
HTML5 is all the rage these days and I couldn’t resist the urge to utilize in this redesign. It’s one of my first public builds with HTML5 (everything else using it has been a side-project) and I’m actually surprised with how painless it actually was.
To get the new elements (section, header, footer) to be visible to stupid ol’ Internet Explorer, I’m using HTML5 Shiv. I started going down the route of just using Modernizer, which detects a browser’s support of various features, and serving different styles to different browsers, but I decided against it – mainly due to code bloat issues and page loading speed.
As you can tell, these headings are not a normal web-font. They’re set in Museo Slab, an awesome font from Jos Buivenga and served by TypeKit. The whole process was very easy and I highly recommend giving it a go if you’re wanting to use custom fonts.
This website marks the end of my support for IE6 (at least for the Shift Creative website). IE6 users will get a “lo fi” version of the site with typography styles and formatting. It still looks great, but is much more simplified.
IE6 was released in 2001. That’s three years before I graduated High School and a year before I could even drive. It’s unfortunate that it has hung on for so long. This year, though, I finally saw my IE6 stats drop below 10% and I don’t plan on spending hours and hours fixing my site so it looks perfect for 10% of my users. It’ll still look and work great, and that’s all that matters.
Hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any issues!
As if we all needed another reason to fear and loathe the horrible browser that is Internet Explorer, Engadget reports that a critical bug could let arbitrary code run on your machine just by hitting the F1 key on your keyboard…
I’ve got to agree with the sentiments in their last sentence. Instead of avoiding your F1 key, try switching browsers:
After a few crazy months of working on this project between clients, I’ve finally managed to get Eat Fayetteville off the ground and launched!
It’s a way to find restaurants new and old in the Fayetteville area. You can search by keyword, tag, or restaurant name. The site has all the information you need on the restaurants you’re interested in: hours, locations, directions, pricing, features, amenities, and contact information.
One of my main pet peeves with other food exploration sites is how slow they are. Searches seem to take forever and once I find the restaurant I want the page has to load tons of ads just for me to see the address of the place! It’s so annoying, so I went a different route…
Urbanspoon, Yelp, and other non-local food sites usually take well over 10 seconds to load. Eat Fayetteville loads in under 4 seconds (3.7…but who’s counting?) and has no ads to display. You’ll really enjoy using it, promise.
So, if you’re looking for places to eat in Fayetteville, Arkansas, check out Eat Fayetteville!
Google, in a pretty forward-thinking move, will start ranking sites not only by content and inbound links, but by page-load speed as well. This bodes well for clients of Shift Creative as we take speed very seriously in designing and developing websites.
We encourage you to start looking at your site’s speed (the tools above provide a great starting point) — not only to improve your ranking in search engines, but also to improve everyone’s experience on the Internet.
Extremely interesting read.
We set out to broaden our ambitions; to create a design philosophy and world-class design standards that all designers across the business could adhere to. We wanted to find the soul of the BBC. We wanted something distinctive and recognisable; we wanted drama. We knew whatever we created needed to be truly cross-platform and that we needed to simplify our user journeys.
