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Web Designing for the Retina display – 1

The new iPad’s retina display pretty much doubles the resolution and now have an overwhelming 2048 x 1536 resolution screen rather than the old and usual 1024 x 768 resolution one. It has 44 per cent greater color saturation and …

Handy CSS tricks, tips from Eric Meyer – Luke W.

In a recent talk at An Event Apart Eric Meyer talked about some of the visual effects we can achieve with CSS today. Here’s a few of them that you’ll find very handy (and some will also improve the user …

Future of Web Design.

2012 looks to be an interesting year. For now, forget GoDaddy’s support for SOPA; we finally won the SOPA, PIPA war against governments who did their best to censor the internet, to deny citizens basic rights or prop up ailing …

I’m Featured in Web Designer Magazine.

Programming the Real Time Web.

Brad Wright’s talk from the DIBI Web Conference.

The web is moving towards real-time interaction in the browser. This talk will guide you through your options, both on the server and client side, with examples and programming tips to avoid …

On Navigation Menus

I’m currently working on an eCommerce website for selling designer and ready made wedding cards and wanted to share about making the navigation as appealing as possible, so here goes:

Horizontal navigation systems are limited to a maximum of five …

On The Obvious Visual Structure.

A modular, 16, 12 column grid still works good for us but, as a creative, the challenge for website design has always been to build sites that don’t fall into the trap of an obvious visual structure.
Logical order …

Few CSS and HTML5 stuff you should start using Right Now!

So, this time I thought of writing a small, brief post about most common CSS properties that are less used, but should be used more frequently, some HTML5 action we can actually start using and few basics of API, may …

A short note on Design Process and the WHY?.

How did you make decisions about the information hierarchy and visual elements on the page? Are the fonts expressing the right mix of message communication and readability? Share the details that go beyond the obvious by breaking down the visual …