Archive for December, 2009
The Art of Color
December 12th, 2009 | 
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While not exactly a web design book, this book is required reading for anyone involved in designing the GUI for a web site.
Colors have meaning and the better you understand this, the more optimal your site design can become for the users you intend to visit your site.
In this book, the world’s foremost color theorist examines two different approaches to understanding the art of color. Subjective feelings and objective color principles are described in detail and clarified by color reproductions.
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Filtering the Internet Noise
My friend Bill posted a link to “A Day In The Internet” that started a discussion about the signal to noise ratio on the Internet.
I commented briefly, but realized that my comment was turning into more of a post of its own. So here’s a more complete comment on Bill’s post.
As I said in my comment, I’m not exactly of the same generation that Bill is. There are roughly 15 years between us. At this point that doesn’t matter much. But in Internet time, most of my peers are on Facebook and Twitter because someone in their family is or because someone like me finally convinced them it was worthwhile.
jQuery, Each() and Async Gets
One of the things to keep in mind when using jQuery is that nothing is a blocking call. Sure, there is a certain sequence to when things operate. But, to be safe, you should always assume that step two will happen during step one.
Nowhere is this more evident than when retrieving content from a URL and inserting that content in your page.
JQuery, Cufon, and Dynamic Content
Yesterday I mentioned a new tool called Cufon that allows you to easily embed fonts in your web site.
One quirk about this tool is that your HTML has to be rendered prior to applying, or refreshing, the font. If you are using any kind of AJAXy stuff in your site, you’ll need to re-apply the font change. The trick is knowing when to do this.
