https://minimal.org.uk/categories/web-design/ Recent content in web design on minimal.org.uk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb ian Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:12:19 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2013/04/21/new-gallery-again/ Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:12:19 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2013/04/21/new-gallery-again/ Time for another make-over: my old gallery subdomain was fine at the time, but has suffered from 5 years of neglect and has become rather dated and annoying when it comes to trying to navigate or show images to others, so now that I have a WordPress theme which supports both gallery and slideshow modes, I shall be reposting some old images along with newer content, but with added WP tags. https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/11/cloudflare-welcome-to-the-collective/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:06:27 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2011/09/11/cloudflare-welcome-to-the-collective/ Home hosting of content is a great idea (I’ve been doing it for over a decade) but at some stage the cons start to outweigh the pros. In particular, the speed of UK ADSL uplinks (448kbps) is a large factor in considering external, commercial, hosting, as is the availability of the line and the amount of SysAdmin time needed to keep ahead of the script kiddies. Ok, so you don’t have to put in time to beat the scripters: staying on top of security updates is often sufficient, but in the early days of WordPress I found that could loose my outbound bandwidth for half an hour or more as a stream of dumb proxy attacks came in. https://minimal.org.uk/2009/04/27/new-theme-for-mobile-viewers/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:02:50 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/04/27/new-theme-for-mobile-viewers/ I’m a huge fan of CSS and intelligent use of it such as removing images, background colours and scaling down font sizes for print, but some things need more work. If you’re looking at this site from an iPod Touch, iPhone or Android device, you should now get a much more compact ‘just-the-facts’ style view, courtesy of WPTouch. If you have any problems, or think the layout could still stand to be improved, do let me know in the comments. https://minimal.org.uk/2008/09/26/marblehilldancestudiocouk/ Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:04:48 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/09/26/marblehilldancestudiocouk/ Recently I’ve been having some fun with Rapidweaver and have used it to create a web site for Marble Hill Dance Studio which is run by Abigail Cova and is based in St. Margaret’s, London. The main theme was a stock item with customised colours and extended background motifs, but in the end the logo placement and fade turned out to be real issues and so the front page is hand-customised. https://minimal.org.uk/2007/04/19/rapidweaver-for-free-worth-repeating/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:30:14 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2007/04/19/rapidweaver-for-free-worth-repeating/ Realmac Software | Weblog: http://www.realmacsoftware.com/blog/files/rapidweaver_35_macuser_free.html The next edition of Mac User will have a full and free version of RapidWeaver 3.5 on the cover disc. If you’re at all interested in publishing more web pages/sites than iWeb lets you, and like the idea of simply using Cut-n-Paste to create a web page (from TextEdit, Nissus, Word, et. al.) with all styles intact, then you really ought to get this software. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/15/four-free-aperture-themes/ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:57:09 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/08/15/four-free-aperture-themes/ Update 07nov06: Note that the download here is only for Aperture versions up to (and including) 1.1.2 The location of the themes is different for Aperture 1.5, so view the updated post if you’re using 1.5 or 1.5.1. Well, more variations than true themes, but if you have Aperture I have add a new Stock theme which has a grey background, and also created versions that have a link to a parent directory in the theme itself so it’s a little easier to get at least a one level deep gallery out of the program. https://minimal.org.uk/2006/03/16/web-21-server-side-blink-tag-demonstration/ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:32:01 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/03/16/web-21-server-side-blink-tag-demonstration/ Web 2.1 server-side blink tag demonstration: http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html Now here’s something the mainstream fuss over AJAX has missed: real, tangible and downright useful code. No more silly browser intelligence: let the server control everything ! Roll on Web 2.5 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/03/08/airtight-postcardviewer-download/ Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:03:12 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2006/03/08/airtight-postcardviewer-download/ AIRTIGHT – PostcardViewer Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/postcardviewer/ I meant to mention this a while ago when I was looking at various galleries and it’s a great non-linear way of presenting images, plus it’s free. It just got a lot better for Photoshop users though, as there’s now a script for automatically generating albums. No, it doesn’t work in Elements 3 (I tried !) but there is an iPhoto exporter mentioned which I’ve not had a go with yet. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/10/25/a-list-apart-articles-attack-of-the-zombie-copy/ Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:32:40 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/10/25/a-list-apart-articles-attack-of-the-zombie-copy/ A List Apart: Articles: Attack of the Zombie Copy: http://www.alistapart.com:80/articles/zombiecopy Possibly the most amusing article on bad writing that I’ve seen: I wouldn’t have thought it possible to include the phrase “Zombie Milk” in a tutorial on English. The curse Kevin talks about is not just relegated to web pages, but is rife in corporate emails (it’s got so bad at work recently we’re considering retraining SpamAssassin) and has spilled over into one too many podcasts. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/04/missing-font-found/ Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:37:48 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/09/04/missing-font-found/ When I first put up a site at this domain back in 1999 I was using hsc on BeOS: when I moved away from that to Solaris for creating sites I (stupidly) trashed the disc as I thought I’d copied everything off it. I hadn’t. The hsc site config was copied, but e-mail, JPG captures of my children (ok, then it was just child) and the fonts I used to create the logos on the site were all lost, but I didn’t notice straight away: it wasn’t until I tried to recreate the site in an updated style (using b2) that I realised my mistake… https://minimal.org.uk/2005/08/07/s5-a-simple-standards-based-slide-show-system/ Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:00:50 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/08/07/s5-a-simple-standards-based-slide-show-system/ S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ Apologies to the original site which pointed me at this stuff: it’s so long ago I’ve forgotten where I read it first, but this (new ?) version is much improved and works very nicely indeed in Safari 2.0 Do try out the demo and try all of the keyboard shortcuts – after having to play with presentation software a few weeks ago (for the first time), I’m probbaly going to try re-writing my slides in S5 just to see how good it is for general use. https://minimal.org.uk/2004/08/26/pantone-to-rgb-colour-conversion/ Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:23:56 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/08/26/pantone-to-rgb-colour-conversion/ Pantone to RGB Colour Conversion: http://www.reeddesign.co.uk/test/pantone2rgb.html Very helpful. https://minimal.org.uk/2004/07/06/spin-the-colour-wheel/ Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:30:43 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/07/06/spin-the-colour-wheel/ Colours on the web – color theory and color matching: http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wheel.asp “Are you about to give up? Just can’t find the right colours for your page? Well, here is the solution for you! Just Spin the colour wheel and get a selection of three random colours. The colour wheel randomizes among some 16 million colours. And since each spin produces three different colours, that gives endless combinations. (or 2 to the power of 70 or so, which is a very large number). https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/28/the-php-layers-menu-system/ Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:57:13 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/28/the-php-layers-menu-system/ http://phplayersmenu.sourceforge.net/ If you want a menu on your site, then this has more than you could possibly have use for. Unless you’re after a bad design award, of course… All code is under the LGPL. https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/16/on-safari/ Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:40:42 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/16/on-safari/ I’ve only recently found out about the CSS attribute text-shadow after visiting Binary Bonsai (in Safari) and thinking it looked pretty neat, and then showing it to Nicci (in Mozilla) and wondering where thre pretty text went. A quick Google later and I was looking at text-align. I was so totally blown away by the combined translucency and shadow example that I decided that even if it was just for Safari users, I *had* to have shadows on my headlines and dates 🙂 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/16/liquid-layouts/ Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:11:05 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/16/liquid-layouts/ http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/liquid/ Sort of how I work things through anyway but with some nice multi-browser comments https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/15/simplebits-minitabs/ Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:35:12 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/15/simplebits-minitabs/ http://www.simplebits.com/bits/minitabs.html Hmm, love that effect. The second one that scales with the font size is simply great – dunno how to fit it into my site, but I’m feeling pretty magpie-ish about it 🙂 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/05/03/stunningly-useful-web-design-tool/ Mon, 03 May 2004 20:11:33 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/05/03/stunningly-useful-web-design-tool/ Quickly and easily highlight each section of a web page without having to resort to border colours (which change the shape and size of objects anyway). Try it out: http://www.make-believe.org/posts/04/04/01/0 https://minimal.org.uk/2002/08/21/javascript-popup-windows/ Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:57:03 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2002/08/21/javascript-popup-windows/ Nope, I *hate* innapropriate JavaScript with a passion, but this page has a great idea for those of you who feel the urge to open new browser windows for me. It’s so slick I’d start a petition to make braindead HTML design tools (like, but not limited to Dreamweaver) bung this in when the user makes a popup link, except no-one but me would ever sign it 🙁