How to mark up your website logo has always been a really controversial topic on the web. There are literally hundreds of articles about the topic and, well, this is another one.
Over the past year we've changed our approach to this extremely boring (but important) subject 3 times. Below I will hit on each one and follow up with how we're doing it now - which in my opinion is the "right" way.
H1 Image Overlay
This approach seems right; throw an anchor in your H1 with your company name written inside of it,…
A few weeks ago I started obsessing over visual hierarchy, which, admittedly, is something I think our work is sometimes lacking in.
We design sites, code them, and then the second a page isn't laid out exactly how we mocked it up everything looks weird. I wouldn't admit this unless I was 99% positive that 99% of you have the exact same problem.
So, here's my challenge: Style every single HTML tag on your next project without giving them any classes or ids. Style a crap load of width-less, height-less widgets that can be reused in almost…
Here's a little code example on how we made our horizontal navigation bar using CSS3 Selectors and Sprites: http://labs.gandrweb.com/navigation
Having a beautiful background, header, footer and a huge happy illustrated fairy on crack in the sidebar of your website isn't going to keep people browsing. We don't browse the web for beauty, we browse it for content. Anything that takes away from that content and/or the main goals of your site is just art. Art belongs in The Guggenheim.
Not many people understand the importance of visual hierarchy. Hell, I didn't even know this subject had a name until a few hours ago. I just knew it was a problem (that we have). So, I did a…
This article was originally published over at SpringStage but it looks better here :) You can find a more detailed code example on this subject in the GANDR Labs.
With strong reasoning behind every line of code in our stylesheets we can make them cleaner, easier to maintain and more universally compatible. Yes, some style types will always need to be bug fixed in different browsers but unordered list navigation isn’t really one of those things.
I’ve seen navigation bars styled a thousand different ways with an unordered list. I’ve also had…
The second Abilene Build Guild in the entire galactic universe EVER is at 5:30PM on Tuesday, June 8th at the Abilene Brewing Company. Last month we had a grand ol' time hanging out, networking and talking about anything and everything web related. Don't believe me? Read about it, I dare you. We really look forward to seeing you, meeting you, and growing the oh-so-beautiful Abilene, TX web community.
See you soon!
A few days ago we decided it was time to start a new side project. Something that we can all play around with and mold into something completely different than the original idea (that's how that usually works, right?).
So, we decided on http://feed-ee.com/ which, I think, will be tons of links for anything ExpressionEngine related. Some will be RSS, some will be manually added by us, etc. A central hub for everything EE around the web. No launch date in sight but here's a little teaser. Enjoy :)
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Writing great content for your website is no easy task and it is imperative to keep in mind that your content is why users come to your website.
Steps to begin
- Create a tone - whether it's fun, creative, corporate, professional or playful. It is important to first decide the tone you want your content to portray and keep it consistent once the decision is made.
- Identify objectives - before writing your content, you need to identify what you would like your content to accomplish (inform, sell, sign up, etc).
- Drafting - write out…
