Content informs design
“Content informs design; design without content is decoration. Content has the same relationship to design that product has to advertising. Good ads are based on the product; good designs come from and facilitate the content. This is one reason we bring content strategy to every design assignment, and one reason we insist on working with real content, not lorem ipsum (placeholder) content. Nothing is sadder than a beautiful design that works great with lorem ipsum but doesn’t actually support the real content.” – Jeffrey Zeldman
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Web site update
16 February, 2010 - 6:06 pm
Tags: Web Design
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Just an update to say that my site is nearing completion and will be up soon. Featuring my web design portfolio, travel photos and stories and some other junk…
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Digital Design Sensations
8 January, 2010 - 3:02 pm
Tags: Design, Digital, V&A, Web Design
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The V&A Museum is running a Digital Design Sensations exhibit until 11th April 2010.
It’s £5 to get in, well worth it I think.
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Write once, publish everywhere
22 December, 2009 - 10:45 am
Tags: Fonts, Web Design
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As the web industry matures and moves forward with web standards, a certain amount of focus is now moving on to ‘Real’ fonts on the web. That is to say, using non HTML standard fonts on websites as live font. The challenge here now is to standardise this new frontier so that designers and developers [...]
The Survey for people who make web sites
17 December, 2009 - 2:02 pm
Tags: Survey, Web Design
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For the last 3 years A List Apart have been running their survey for people who ‘make’ web sites.
They specify the word ‘make’ as it’s not limited to web designers. It’s a survey for all people who feel that they contribute to making web sites, be you a designer, content editor, developer, enthusiast, marketer, copy [...]
It’s official, I’m on Google
15 December, 2009 - 11:40 am
Tags: Google, Skuthorpe, Web Design
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So it’s official and the world knows it. I’m one of the suggested searches for Skuthorpe with a total of 1810 results at time of writing.
Along with my famous ancestor Lance Skuthorpe and someone galled Glenn Skuthorpe and most likely down to my blogging, comments and general popularity I’ve entered the hallowed world of suggested [...]
Design by committee at its very best
22 September, 2009 - 1:43 pm
Tags: Design, Design By Committee, My Life, Web Design
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It’s days like this that make me want to cry. This brilliant video sums up pretty well what we designers go through some days.
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The web site is under construction as it were…
10 September, 2009 - 9:14 pm
Tags: Drinking, Poker, The Brisbane Line, Web Design, Weekend
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As you may be able to tell (do you have a design eye?), this site isn’t finished. In fact, only the homepage has the new look and feel, though no where near complete, while the rest of the site is broken and unpleasant, just like the current state of Australian test cricket.
This coming weekend I [...]
Web site under development
30 April, 2009 - 8:51 am
Tags: My Life, Web Design
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Just an update regarding the The Brisbane Line, this weekend I’ll be spending some time working on the site fixing a few browser issues and working on bringing the old pages in line with the new design.
That is if the weather is rubbish…
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This damn web site caper
7 March, 2009 - 1:52 am
Tags: Web Design
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I’ve been meaning to finish this web site of mine for some time now…
Things keep popping up, I’m consistantly unmotivated of late and shit just happens. It’ll be a good thing when I do complete it as I can then show it off as a finished product, and not a half completed building project like [...]
Design is not art!
27 February, 2009 - 12:04 am
Tags: Art, Communication, Design, Web Design
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Web Design isn’t art!
Web Design is communication. Visual, aesthetics, layout, structure and flow all play a huge part in conveying a message to a user. In the cut throat world of the web, a user will take only moments to judge and take action on your site. If you get it wrong, a few scrolls [...]
