Web Design. Web Production.
6 May

Dave Shea has an excellent tutorial over on Mezzoblue that shows how to spice up your screenshots by giving them some perspective and a touch of focal blur.
12 Mar
You know your site has made it when … it turns up in its very own song. Stefan (of FlashComGuru fame) also runs a cam chat site called Ameegos.com. One of the users has wriiten a song about the site and its users. You’ll appreciate it best if you know the people who hang out there (day after day) but even without this it’s pure quality!
The Ameegos Song
And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s now a blog about the site too:
All about Ameegos
Blogged with Flock
28 Feb
Newspapers all run on complex column grid systems. Websites are really no different. Paul Evans has published a list of the most common column structures you’re likely to use when designing a web site, each with a useful, quick reference diagram.
XHTML column frameworks
27 Feb
swfIR is a new progressive enhancement technique utilising JavaScript and Flash to give you an assortment of visual effects to apply to any or all images on your website. It scans through your page and adds some new flavour to standard image styling.
swfIR (swf Image Replacement) is here to solve some of the design limitations of the standard HTML image and its widely-accepted associated CSS values, while still supporting standards-based design concepts.
I enjoy playing around in Photoshop so it’s probably something I wouldn’t use on my personal sites but I can certainly see the advantage of using this on a clients site to embellish images uploaded through a CMS. Not only is it simple to use, but it’s also simple to deploy.
It’ll be very interesting to see how this develops and what new effects are added to the tool.
26 Feb
Finally! A solution for creating square corners on your website. You’ve probably read countless tutorials on how to make rounded corners, but a simple, elegant solution for creating square corners has yet to emerge.