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Webdesign News
  • Saila CSS layouts, revisited

    June 12, 2010

    In early 2002, Web standard design was an exception and a number of people were <a href="http://archive.webstandards.org/mission.html" re[...]

  • Safari fine

    June 08, 2010

    <time datetime="2010-06-07">Yesterday</time>, Apple announced something that will change the way I access the Web. Yes, Safari was updated to include both a <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html#browsing" rel="external" title="Apple calls it a “Smart Address Field[...]

  • Lessons from working with Web standards, revisited

    May 20, 2010

    Just over four years ago, I wrote about a large-scale Web redesign on a <span class="info" title="The Globe and Mail">news site</span>. Today, [...]

  • The promise of the iPad

    March 31, 2010

    That the iPad <span class="info" title="April 3, 2010">arrives on the Christian calendar’s Easter weekend</span> has got to be more than a coincidence — after all, its <span class="info" title="The iPhone">progenitor</span>was called the <a href="http://techcrun[...]

  • Haven’t heard that before

    March 18, 2010

    So, as HTML 5 begins to spread beyond the academic discussion phase, and into the fringes of the Web design community, an all too typical culture clash has once again emerged. The perfectionists and pragmatists are publicly at it again.[...]

  • A Safari adventure

    March 11, 2010

    With the exception of a few years when Internet Explorer was actually the more <span class="info" title="Yes, boys and girls, there was such a time">standard-compliant browser</span>, I’ve always surfed the Web with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox#Hist[...]

  • Touching the future

    January 27, 2010

    Thirteen years ago, the future imagined by Apple was a tablet computer called the Knowledge Navigator. Today, this vision became real with the <a href[...]

  • Don Watt, brander of No Name

    January 02, 2010

    One of my earliest memories of design involves wandering aisles filled with uniformly yellow packaging of different shapes and sizes. Each item was labelled with the same, tightly kerned, black typeface and was always set in lowercase.

    This carefully designed unbranded brandi[...]

More Design News
  • Coca Cola – A bottle can be iconic

    July 28, 2010

    Coca Cola has been an example for good branding practices throughout the years because of it’s consistency over the years especially if you compare it to Pepsi. Coke’s bottle silhouette mi[...]

  • Front End Design Conference – The All Female Line-up

    July 21, 2010

    Quick! Look at your calendar, now back at me, now back at your calendar, now back at me! What are you doing on July 23rd? You should be at the Front End Design Conference in St. Petersburg Florida. Fr[...]

  • A new Q & A Graphic Design site proposed from Stack Exchange

    July 20, 2010

    Ever feel like the online world is not full with enough good instructional design content? Over at Area 51, stack exchange’s awesome new staging zone there is a new site in the making. Can Berk [...]

  • Inspiration from sports: Burton Snowboards

    July 19, 2010

    Burton. The word that’s almost synonymous with snowboarding. Wether you like the snow, the boards, the clothes, the culture or just have a love for creativity Burton dishes it all out. Burton&[...]

  • Southern Hospitality of Dufford Young Architects

    July 13, 2010

    With select projects in the U.S. and Canada, Dufford Young Architects is a Charleston, SC-based architecture firm with a comprehensive body of work spanning more than a dozen years. What they are kn[...]

  • Putting the Creative in the Discovery Channel

    July 06, 2010

    The Discovery Channel has some epic HD specials and shows: Life, Planet Earth, Deadliest Catch, Mythbusters are just a few that showcase the earth in its awe inspiring beauty. But, who makes the [...]

  • Add more value to Illustrator with Phantasm CS

    June 29, 2010

    Adobe Illustrator is a program from the Adobe Creative Suite that has an infinite amount of capabilities when it comes to vector graphics but have you ever felt limited with it’s ability to make col[...]

  • Three Resources for Awesome Freebies

    June 25, 2010

    Freebies and open source content are some of the best things we can run across as creatives. These help out in a pinch, sometimes are great starts to making a document or design and help save time. So[...]

Saila Design Trends
  • Not a Google beta

    April 14, 2008

    Quite a few of you have sent in feedback politely reminding me that this site is often illegible in Internet Explorer. Others have mentioned that the Twitter updates have been breaking the page as a result of numerous PHP errors. Others have wondered if this will be an eternal beta.[...]

  • Beta, baby

    October 16, 2007

    Welcome to the final stage of this prolonged redesign. Although “beta” is so Web 2.0, that is what this version is. There will still be some old links that are pointed in [...]

  • Gone alpha

    September 06, 2007

    The time has come, the tardy one said, to release this new design is only as an alpha. Finally, the key functionality is in place meaning there is once again feedback and comment forms; RSS feeds are now de rigeur<[...]

  • Arrival

    July 29, 2007

    If you are reading this then the Web host switch is done (at least for you) and I hope the email is functioning again.

    As I mentioned yesterday, the switch was:

    to coincide wit[...]

  • Packing the bags

    July 28, 2007

    Well, here goes nothing.

    After ten years of excellenting hosting by my friends at ThinData, I am now switching to <a href="http://www.mediate[...]

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