Do Web Designers Need Drawing Skills?
Most of the ideas for this series come from actual email questions put to me. Some of the questions delve into the basics of web design, while others may go into more advanced topics. This time around I'm answering a question from someone just looking to learn web design who wanted to know if they needed traditional pen-and-paper drawing skills in web design. Along the way, I explore a few other similar questions about web design related design skills.
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26. August 2008
Ajax vs Flash
In this podcast I talk about the differences between Flash and Ajax. I get into things like when to use one technology over an other, the pro's and cons of each and I also give you hints with regards to how to choose which one to learn - based on who you are.
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21. August 2008
Managing Lazy Clients
In this session I introduce you to the 'lazy client' and then I get into how to manage them. ... Just in case your wondering why you should care, lazy clients can turn into a big pain in the butt and can cost you time and money. Not cool.
Continue reading...26. July 2008
Business of Web Design - Introduction to the course
Hi, I’ve just uploaded the first session/chapter of the audio-book. You can find a written outline of this session in my original post about the Business of Web Design. … I am repeating the announcement here so that subscribers to the RSS feeds will be notified. Anyway, let me know what you think … both the good [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2008
What are gravatars and why you need them?
What is a gravatar? Let’s take it from the source: A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
Continue reading...12. June 2008
Comparing blogs, CMS and Wikis
I just published an article on my blog comparing these three different web publishing tools that you have to choose from: Blogs CMS Wikis
Continue reading...5. June 2008
Book Review: Flexible Rails: Flex 3 On Rails
Book review by: Richard Mischook Bottom Line A well written guide to using Ruby on Rails with Adobe Flex to create rich internet applications. My Motivation Recently I was working on one of my pet projects - an application for managing data mapping during the analysis phase of enterprise integration projects. The details of the application are not really [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2008
New Flash CS3 Video tutorials out soon.
I will be releasing a new Flash CS3 video tutorial in the next few days that examines the differences between Actionscript 1,2 and 3. Meanwhile, you can visit our Flash section on killersites.com Stefan
Continue reading...4. June 2008
Ajax Video Tutorials
We will be releasing a new set of Ajax videos very soon. The new videos will deal less with the underlying Javascript constructs; instead we will be looking at some of the popular Ajax frameworks that are out there. Things like: Scriptacoulous Adobe’s Spry framework for Dreamweaver Until the new videos come out, I invite to check out a [...]
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28. August 2008
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