Web Design - Sam Hardacre

Web Design

A collection of 12 posts

CSS frameworks and semantics

A couple of months ago, I was having a chat on Skype with Toby Howarth [http://tobyhowarth.co.uk/] about various web-related things, one of which was CSS frameworks. It was quite late and I was just about to head to bed so I only wrote a quick reason why

Structure

To my disappointment, I was unable to attend New Adventures [http://2013.newadventuresconf.com/] conference this year so while my Twitter stream was filled with people saying how buzzed and inspired they were, I was left wondering whether I could somehow conjure up some of that excitement for myself and

Compressing images

This morning while eating my porridge, I read todays article [http://24ways.org/2012/responsive-images-what-we-thought-we-needed/] on 24ways by Paul Robert Lloyd [http://paulrobertlloyd.com/] in which he links to an article [http://blog.netvlies.nl/design-interactie/retina-revolution/] outlining a technique for better image compression. I decided to try it out

Remember the context

While I've been applying media queries to projects for a couple of years now, I'm still learning new tricks and discovering things that I've not really thought of before. One of these discoveries happened recently while working on a new project... I sketched out

Releasing the dam

Over the last few months, I've been lagging behind in my reading of web related articles and watching of past conference videos. I've been saving many of them up for occasions when I need to kill some time which, until recently, rarely came along. Since starting

A lil' giveaway

I returned home this evening to find the postman had dropped off a couple of items addressed to me. I rarely get mail so unless I know it's from the bank, I tear into the envelope without hesitation. This time was no different. To my surprise I found

Another week, another redesign

I hold my hands up. I am an indecisive pain in the arse. About two months ago, I relaunched my site and with it, my intention to dabble once more in art-directed or editorial based designs for each entry. I've yet again taken a step back from this

By invitation only

I've had a dribbble account for some time and have found it to be quite an interesting site. You get to see other designers' snippets of works in progress and are able to give feedback. Likewise you can upload works in progress and get useful pointers and

The Future of Web Typography

Typography on the web is in it's infancy, until now our options for typefaces have been very limited to say the least. With @font-face picking up a lot of speed I can't help thinking we run the risk of being like kids in a sweet shop

Dabbling in this Art Directing doohickory

A few years ago I came across a site called A Brief Message [http://www.subtraction.com/categories/a_brief_message], a design blog which was doing something much different to other blogs. Rather than having a standard layout which got transferred from one article to the next, some fixed

Okay, so realign has kinda gone out the window

As you can probably tell, the realign plan has veered slightly off course into the realms of redesign. I know I wanted to avoid it but after putting ideas down on paper and playing around I started to come up with something that, in my opinion is way better than

A plan to realign my design

I'm never completely happy with my site. I'm always thinking of ways to make improvements but they aren't always that easy to implement in an incremental process, making tweaks here and there to the live site. I've had a lot of trouble