Sunday, March 18, 2007

My thoughts on website width

The width of a design is a hot point for discussion from two very seperate camps. The fixed width camp, and the fluid width camp. A very general summary would be that some people don't like the wasted browser space that comes with fixed width designs, and the others don't like the potentially huge line-length that comes with fluid designs.

A quick glance at my work will make it pretty obvious which camp I fall into, and I'll explain why.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Looking for talent

Enlighten Designs are looking for an Intermediate Web Designer to join our team.

You should be at home in Photoshop, and have a solid understanding of HTML/CSS, but the most important thing is that your portfolio impresses me. So send them to me.

The position is in Hamilton, New Zealand, you must have a valid work permit and all that legal bollocks.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Revisions and updates

It may seem as though the site has been somewhat neglected in the last month, but rest assured I've been working hard to address the issues that people have been emailing me over the last few months. The crowd from CSSbeauty.com are some of the most vocal people I've run into through the site, and many of them have a lot of good ideas for clarifying certain aspects of the CSS layout tutorial, as well as fixing my spelling and grammar.

Its roughly a year on since I wrote it, so I've set aside some time to revise the methods I was using a year ago, and re-publish it. Changes will most likely include full HTML/CSS files at the end of the tutorial, an expanded section on making your one page into a functioning site with multiple sections, a printable version, more screenshots, a UL based navigation instead of my dirty DL hack, and lots of clarifications.

I've got quite a lot on my plate at the moment, but the site is just starting to take off, so I've gotta make time for it. Thanks for your patience and your great feedback.