I Hate My Wordpress Theme
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
I’m starting to hate my wordpress theme more and more.. the color’s are like shit! There just ain’t enough contrast! I have one mod of this theme in the working stages, but I took a look at it earlier on, and I didn’t like it that much either - it looked to cramped for my liking..
To make things worse, there’s this 30 Great Website Designs post. Here are some of my favourites:
Arts of The Month
Tags: web_design
Making Things Work in IE6
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Jnls.Net didn’t work in IE6 at first. Since everything looked find in IE7, I never took the trouble to fix things for IE6. One thing I have to tell you, is that you have to make sure your site looks presentable in IE6 no matter what. It’s like a do or die situation. IE7 is still in beta, and millions of users are still on IE6. Think about your potential clients, do they use Firefox? I doubt it…
I knew it wasn’t that hard to fix Jnls.Net for IE6, so after several hours of coding (and cursing), I’m proud to certify Jnls.Net “IE6: semi-compliant”. This is mainly due to the reason that “show what posts” tabs on the left can’t be re-produced in IE6. Even if it could, the effort involved for such a thing would simply not be worthwhile. All I did is hide the original tabs on the left with display: none and use a IE conditional statement that re-adds the links at the beginning of the page. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: css, jnls.net, web_design
Browser-Tops are Lame
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
Ajaxian recently carried quite a number of articles covering Ajax based desktop/homepage/portals. I can’t help but slap my forehead with my palms. What wonderful usage of JavaScript/Ajax/DHTML they were. I’ve already got a pretty neat Windows desktop, but some folks think it’s a cool idea to have another one in my browser.
There were so many of them that Ajaxian posted one to sum them all up. So let me go through the two categories which these examples fall into: bright+useful and dumb+waste of time. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ajax, out_there, web_design
Design Psychology
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
You never get a second chance to make a first impression
Andy Rutledge recently wrote an excellent article posted at Stylegala. I would certainly say that it’s a must read for all web designers out there.
In his article, he described the job of designing websites as “an exercise in promoting a brand or idea in an appealing manner while also eliciting specific human emotions and behaviors”. Well, that may sound a tad philosophical eh? Here’s some notable points Andy brought up: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: out_there, web_design
Flexi Sides: Degrading Gracefully
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical
It was really stupid of me to not think of what happens when the user has JavaScript disabled. The first comment I had was exactly on that.
The simplest method to ensure graceful degrading, is to add some default styles to your box so that when JavaScript is disabled, the user would still get a simple looking box. However, there’s a slight problem with Flexi Sides. You see, Flexi Sides adds containers to your box. Let’s look at how the DOM might look like after adding some containers to #rounded-box: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: css, my_web_projects, web_design
