Categories: Design
A summary of the Skyrocket Labs redesign
- August 29, 2010
- Design
- News from the Labs
- User Experience
When I first launched the blog version of the site back in December, 2009, I envisioned it being the start of a long and enjoyable interaction with my online peers as well as an opportunity to share some of my own experiments and expertise. Since then I've achieved some thankful if modest success and have certainly learned a great deal. It's been a blast! As my colleagues will know, a web site is a living entity and it s necessary to adapt, grow and improve in order to not only practice modern techniques and tactics but also to provide users with the best experience one can provide. With that, I present v.2.1 of Skyrocket Labs.
Create a fancy web form with field hints using only CSS3
CSS3 tricks have been pretty popular in the last while on various design blogs and with good reason. Like many of you, I've caught the CSS3 bug and this afternoon I took a stab at this nifty little method of adding hints to your form fields (as well as some fancy style enhancements) using CSS3. The cool part is you don't require Javascript for the form field hints. Here's a demo and run down of the code used.
CSS3-only horizontal drop line tab menu
Recently, Web Designer Wall posted this really cool tutorial on creating a dropdown menu using only CSS3 (no javascript). Not being one to just sit back and let things sit as is, the approach inspired me make a variation. The result, however directly derivitive, is this horizonatal drop line menu based on a variation of WDW's tut.
5 Simple Horizontal CSS Menus
I thought I'd take the opportunity to build a few examples of straight-forward CSS menus, from the basic block style to CSS3 to CSS sprites. For advanced designers, this is pretty simple stuff but is a handy reference for budding professionals.
Must-have skills every web designer should possess
- January 29, 2010
- Best Practices
- Design
- Professional Development
A lot has changed for web designers since the dawn of the public web in the early 1990's. With the evolution of web standards and the rise of 'Web 2.0' (ugh, I can't stand that term), the bar has risen quite high for those of us who build web sites for a living. I thought I'd offer my own perspective on the skills one must possess to remain marketable in today's web designer profession.
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