Archive for the 'elastic design' Category

I am look­ing for your views on an issue I am hav­ing with a design for a new web­site at work. I am a fan of elastic design (which you might of noticed if you are read­ing this via my blog). The ori­ginal inten­tion was to have a basic design for the smal­ler (< […]

Olav Bjørkøy has cre­ated Blue­print a CSS frame­work which has received a lot of atten­tion is the blog­sphere in the past couple of days…

All this talk about POSH (plain old semantic HTML) has got me think­ing about how I build web sites. I seem to have been fol­low­ing the prin­ciples of POSH for a few years now:

I have star­ted work on a redesign of this blog, this post is to cla­rify my thoughts and elict your opin­ions on what is good, mem­or­able or just damn ugly about this blog.

After read­ing some pos­it­ive com­ments on the site­point forum about this site, I star­ted com­pos­ing an update on the fluid elastic concept and were I am it with it. I real­ised it should be pos­ted here as well as the forum, even if does duplic­ate some of my earlier comments.

or the issues using flash for vec­tor graph­ics that scale rel­at­ive to page design as seen by Nick.

You can use SWFob­ject or Unob­trus­ive Flash Objects to get around the Eolas pat­ent issue in IE and provid­ing con­tent for browsers without flash plu­gin or the required ver­sion of the flash plu­gin. How­ever, there are a num­ber of prob­lems in using Flash for scal­ing vec­tor graphics:

Why is this web­site so stretchy and orange. A look at the how and why of the fluid elastic redesign.

tagged elastic design fluid elastic design elastic

If you haven’t noticed this site has had a CSS reboot and a little tweak­ing of the Word­Press tem­plates. It is a par­tially a proof of concept (or fail­ure in concept if you use a Mac) and very much a work in pro­gress. Let me know if find any prob­lems and please stretch the pages by vary­ing your browser width (and the header still looks good at 300% @ 3000 pixels).

Go visit CSS Reboot and you can vote for me and any of the other 1500 rebooters.

tagged css­reboot css reboot elastic design

What sur­prised me from last night present­a­tion, was was people’s pos­it­ive reac­tion to using flash in but­tons. (Note the flash but­ton was remove from the front page because I did quick job of adding it and the latest ver­sion of IE6 want you to press a but­ton every time flash dis­played on a page in the nor­mal way).

A quick tutorial in elastic faux columns, so Faruk Ates does not have to write one and can con­cen­trate on writ­ing stuff I need to read.