One task css doesn’t make easy is centering objects vertically within their containers. Last summer I offered 6 methods for vertical centering to address that difficulty. The methods generally require knowing in advance the heights of the parent and child elements. What do you do when the child element’s height isn’t known?
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Direct Your Audience To Important Content Through Visual Hierarchy
Every website communicates information through design. Some of the information will be very important and some not so much. Your audience won’t know which is which at a glance unless you provide cues for them by creating a visual hierarchy in your design elements.
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Thoughts On Developing Your Unique Visual Language
You may or may not recognize the name Frank Gehry, but I’d bet you’ve seen at least one of the buildings he’s designed. They’re certainly memorable and have a unique visual language. Seeing some recently made me think about communication and language in general and specifically about how we communicate visually.
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How Do You Choose A Color Scheme When Your Color Skills Are Lacking?
Along with movement, color is one of the first things that will get noticed in any design. A good or bad color scheme could potentially make or break your aesthetic. I’ll be the first to admit I need more study and practice with color, but even if it’s not something I currently list as a strength, it’s something I needed to work out for the recent redesign of this site.
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Is RSS Still A Useful Way To Keep Up With Technology?
Paul Boag recently shared some thoughts in a brief video about keeping up with technology. Paul always has interesting things to say and this video was no different. In it he mentions rss feeds as one way people try to keep up and how he now has a different strategy with far less feeds in his reader.
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