Jul 17, 2008 | Filed in: Rants, Web Design
Carsonified recently hired Mike Kus to replace Elliot Jay Stocks as their web designer. The work I’ve seen of his so far has been pretty good, however I was disappointed to see the evident slackness on their new micro site for Future of Web Apps 2008. On first sight it’s an attractive design in the style of FOWA, but as I scroll down the page i start to notice some glitches.
Jun 26, 2008 | Filed in: Usability, Web Design
It’s all too easy for someone who follows Web Standards to blab on about good usability and I’m often asked what is usability?
Hopefully this post, on Luke W’s Functioning Form website, will give an idea as to what is good usability. It highlights how simple good usability can be. It’s very often a case of basic common sense, but without someone pointing it out to you it may not be obvious. In short this post shows how having simple defaults in forms that we fill in on the internet will prevent those dumbass annoying errors - “you forgot to fill in this bit!”
May 18, 2008 | Filed in: Fonts, News & Events
For the recent redesign of this site I wanted to use some of my own handwriting to fit with the sketchbook theme. I created my own font called Hand of Sean and it’s now available for download from DaFont.com. The font is free for personal use and all I ask is that you donate $5 if you want to use it for anything commercial.
www.dafont.com/hand-of-sean.font
I’ll be putting together a tutorial soon to show you how to create your own hand written font - watch this space!
UPDATE: 19th June 08 - 50,191 downloads!! And it’s been floating around number 20 on DaFont.com’s top 100!
I’m a web and graphic designer living and working in Peterborough, England. I’m employed as a Senior Designer with Bluestone Creative (parent company of e4education) and have over ten years experience designing for print and the internet.
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