Poster Art, jQuery and Hotel Lobby or Home page?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Smileycat.com has a really great article called, "Are You Focusing Too Much on Your Home Page?" In a conversation with a client the idea of a website's main page being the most important part is debated. The argument goes on to compare a website to a hotel. An excerpt is pasted below for you to read, but I highly recommend you click the link above to read the full article. I explained to her that she should think of her home page like the lobby of a hotel (an idea coined, I believe, also by Jared Spool).
When visitors arrive at your hotel, certainly they should find that the lobby represents the hotel favorably. It should be attractive, spacious, with elegant lighting, welcoming colors, and the odd feature here and there.
The lobby should make it easy for the visitor to orient themselves - to see where the front desk is and where the lifts are. It should make it easy for the guest to find out any important information at a glance - upcoming events or where the conference is being held.
However, hotels are ultimately judged by the quality of their rooms. The last hotel I stayed in was the W in Seattle. While it has a nice lobby, it's the rooms that really make a stay there memorable.
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Grab a jQuery 1.3 cheat sheet at CSS Clip.
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Kdenlive free open-source non-linear video editor for KDE. Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies. It relies on a separate renderer, piave, to handle it’s rendering. Kdenlive is easy to use for all levels of users from novice to advanced video editors. Kdenlive is built upon MLT and ffmpeg frameworks, which provide unique features to mix virtually any kind of media.
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Bitt Box is offering wrinkled paper textures as part of their weekly Texture Tuesday freebies. But you should bookmark and subscribe to the Bitt Box feed every day because it has a wealth of design resources.
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In the mood for some poster art to inspire your new creations or just give you some eye candy to look at? Design Is Mine did a whole round up of favorites with links to the artists which is pretty cool.
Labels: bittbox, jquery, poster design, textures, video editing, web design
Hoot hoot
Monday, October 6, 2008
BittBox has a new free font online. The post says designers from all over the world sent in letters and they were then coagulated into a font collection. Pretty snazzy.--
Adobe is putting out a Creative Suite 4. This is not long after the CS3. How are we to keep up with the expenses of the ever evolving software suites? Just to give you a heads up though, Illustrator is said to have some much needed upgrades in CS4. Multiple Artboards documents and transparency in gradients are just two of the new features. A bunch of other feature enhancements to smart guides, text on path, the user interface, and more, complement the two big new features in this latest upgrade.
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In case you do not know this about me, I love owls. In fact, one of the paintings hanging in my office is from the University of Delaware archive and is a painting of a proud, beautiful owl sitting in a fall tree. I love it. Creature Comforts devoted a post to owls recently and you should definitely check it out. The photo in this post is from their blog.
Labels: adobe, bittbox, fonts, owls
Design smorgosbord
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Finding quality vector files online isn't always easy, but one place you can consistently go back to and know you'll find something awesome is BittBox. What is even more awesome about BittBox is that many times you get the elements for free. Even hand drawn decorative vectors!
AisleOne is also a great site to make repeat visits to during the week. As it states on the main page, AisleOne is "an inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism."
You might also enjoy Neuarmy, "A multidisciplinary creative working in print, interactive, illustration, screen printing, painting, graffiti, photography, typography, and identity." It requires a lot of hunting and clicking through the not very well designed site, but there is a lot of inspiration to be found here.
And one more site I enjoy poking through is the group94 showcase. Their site is interesting, interactive and though not so informative but definitely visually appealing. I for one think it is a good one to bookmark because they update it frequently and everything they design is funky and chique. I think you'll enjoy their blurbs that accompany each section, too. Witty and provocative.
Labels: aisleone, bittbox, favorite sites, group94, neuarmy
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