I’d like to start with a heads up; I am a front-end developer and designer. I have very little knowledge of the magic that goes on in a PNG file. Also, the bowels of browser rendering are like that of my own digestion system; I know it works and I use it all the time, but how it works remains a mystery. So, if there is something inherently wrong or impossible with the png-shadow property’s operation, please let me know! My perspective is that of creating HTML structure and applying CSS to it. With that in mind, let’s continue.
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John Gruber of Daring Fireball sheds some light on the history of UI (User Interface) design and how conformity, uniformity and fashion dictate style and design.
I had a chat with my friend Brian from bpdesign.ca this morning about designing interfaces for touch devices versus mouse/keyboard input and physical objects. Brian is in the process of designing an drum machine for VST and iPad. Our conversation was mostly concerned with knobs and dials on User Interfaces (UI). In the physical world knobs are a no-brainer; the articulation of the human wrist allows us to turn knobs on stereos for volume or set the temperature of the heating element on the stove. So simple that we don’t even think about it.
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It’s been said already but the fact remains, mobile is huge and getting bigger, any business on the web would be stupid to ignore mobile users. As more people are buying devices like the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, and Android phones/tablets they are beginning to use them as their primary means to consume content. The question that needs to be raised for folks serving content to an increasingly mobile audience is “What is the best way to deliver content to as many mobile consumers as possible?”
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Ahhh…The delicate art of making Facebook productive, right now Facebook is in the process of depreciating FBML pages the language they’ve been using for years. This is a big shift for front-end developers. Instead of using the FBML environment to create custom pages (or tabs) for clients we now have to get a little deeper into facebook development and build an app. This sounds tricky at first but there’s good news. Facebook apps use iframes to display content. All that’s needed is to create and app on Facebook developers and point it to content on our servers. Lets go through the process.
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It’s official now! lineandpixel.com is live! Woohoo! Fanfare! Hand Shaking! Etc!
Now that we’re done with the celebrating (wasn’t that fun!?!) let’s go through a few highlight features that have been built into lineandpixel.com. We can’t give away everything though, some things are best discovered for yourself. Before we continue please note: This site is public beta, some features may not work correctly on all browsers and systems (I’m looking at you Internet Explorer). Also, there is still a few items in development (eg:comments on blog posts) so please bare with us and check back often! Thanks! Let’s go!
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Unbelievably amazing video by legendary freeskier and inventor of the twin-tip ski Mike Douglas. In case you are wondering how this was shot, the filmographer used a special lens called a tilt-shift lens. Enjoy!
I never tire of reading, I figure that the more information I can soak up, the better a designer I will be. So, last week when a slew of new books and magazines arrived at the LiNE & PiXEL office I was pretty stoked to have a some new material for my ever growing library. So without wasting more time here’s a list of what I got along with a quickie review of each.
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Welcome to the LiNE & PiXEL blog!
LiNE & PiXEL is a small studio specializing in website design and development in beautiful Whistler British Columbia. Our focus is to create beautiful, easy to use websites that will attract customers to your business. If you have any questions regarding our servies, or, you’d just like to chat about web/video games/photography you can contact us by any of the following means:
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