Created on November 03, 2010 by Ryan Dunagan
After lots of discussion and with much excitement, we are proud to announce that , partner and lead developer at GANDR, will be going to work for Erskine Design in their Nottingham office. He will be instrumental in continuing to develop their killer front-end code as…
Created on October 25, 2010 by Garrett Winder
Just posted a HTML/CSS/JS form template for best practice markup and validation of web forms. It includes validation of names, emails, phone numbers, password/password confirmations, messages etc and a plug-and-play css template to help keep your form styling nice and clean. Feel free to check out the demo…
Created on August 06, 2010 by Garrett Winder
Out of the box, the 960 Grid System can accomplish just about any complex website layout you can imagine. There are times, though, when you're going to have to do some minor customizing to cleanly accomplish what you want.
For example, lets pretend we want to have…
Created on July 29, 2010 by Garrett Winder
Just finished reading through the styleguide for the BBC website [pdf] - so many great techniques, rules & guidelines.
Check it out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/gel/downloads/GEL_styleguide.pdf
Created on July 18, 2010 by Garrett Winder
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…
Created on July 15, 2010 by Garrett Winder
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…
Created on July 06, 2010 by Garrett Winder
Here's a little code example on how we made our horizontal navigation bar using CSS3 Selectors and Sprites: http://labs.gandrweb.com/navigation
Created on June 25, 2010 by Garrett Winder
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…