AEA San Francisco 2011 Notes
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I’m currently posting my AEA notes live here: http://himynameisandrew.com/aea-sf/
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Trust Me, I Know What I’m Doing
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My first job was at Target. It was a seasonal position during the Christmas season of my sophomore year of high school. I was really excited to get the job, as it was much more appealing to me than something like working at Arby’s (which I ended up doing a few months later). Looking back, it wasn’t a terrible first job. There were just a couple issues though.
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Fun With Web Standards
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I recently finished a major redesign of my site. I had a lot of fun designing and building this new version and got a chance to experiment a ton with new things. A few of the changes that I made include using CSS3 instead of images, the addition of
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Firefox Finally Adds CSS Transitions
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Just a short note to say that it looks like Firefox will finally be supporting CSS transitions in their next release. I downloaded the beta release of Firefox 4 the other day and was very happy to see that my
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Is Chanel Being Good?
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About three weeks ago, my fiancée (Emily) and I bought a puppy and named it Chanel. She’s probably the cutest dog that has ever lived, but she is also a huge pain. She poops everywhere, chews everything, and barks constantly. I decided to make an iPhone app called Is Chanel Being Good? so that I can let Emily see what she’s missing out on while she’s gone.
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AEA Seattle
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend An Event Apart Seattle. The conference itself was two days long, followed by a one day workshop on HTML5 and CSS3. I got to hear from experts like Jeffrey Zeldman, Dan Cederholm, Jeremy Keith, Andy Clarke and a lot more. I even got to meet and talk to Andy Clarke at lunch.
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Playing In The Sand
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This weekend I really wanted to design a quick site and try out some new CSS techniques I’ve been learning, so I made a sandbox site. What’s a sandbox? Basically it’s a place where I’ll post my experiments and little projects that I’ve been playing around with.
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Square is Sexy
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It seems like rounded corners are everywhere these days; they’re quickly becoming one of the main ingredients of a lot of sites. I suspect that CSS3’s new border-radius property has something to do with it, but whatever the cause, I think we’re starting to go a little overboard. It’s starting to feel like a fad on the same level as overdone gradients and drop shadows.
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Should Designers Code?
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A couple of days ago Elliot Jay Stocks posted a tweet about his feelings on web designers who can’t write code. Since then, the web design community has erupted into a debate on whether or not designers should be able to code. I can see valid points on both sides of the argument and I must admit I’m not totally sure where I stand on this subject.
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CSS Animated Tooltips
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I’ve worked on a few sites before where I had to develop tooltips. You know what I mean, those little boxes of text that come up when you hover over a link or an image. I used jQuery plugins in the past, but for my site I wanted to try something different. I wanted a solution that used no JavaScript, but still looked good and had some cool effects. Luckily, some pretty standard CSS along with some CSS3 animations were all I needed.
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I’m Famous! (Sort of)
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A few months ago I came across a site called Simple Desktops – “a collection of desktop wallpapers curated by Tom Watson designed to make your computer beautiful without distraction.”
The thing I love about Simple Desktops is that all of the designs featured are beautiful without being overly complicated. A lot of them are really inspiring. The site has guidelines that need to be met in order for a desktop to be considered for addition to the collection – no gradients, no lens flares, and no drop shadows are a few of the rules.
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Create A Retro Animation With CSS
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There has been a lot of excitement about CSS animation lately, and I’ve been playing around with it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use CSS Animation to make an old video game style website.
First things first: some of the CSS we’ll be using in this tutorial will not work in all browsers. Right now, only webkit supports CSS animation properties, so Chrome and Safari will render the page correctly. Firefox will work aside from the animations, and IE will probably find ways to screw everything up.
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Helvetica, Arial, & Font Stacks
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About a year ago I watched Helvetica. It had a really big impact on the way that I look at the world. I became obsessed with identifying the type face in the wild. One thing that I started to notice, though, was that a lot of websites used Arial as their primary font. I started to look into it more and found that many of these sites put Arial before Helvetica in their font stacks. I was (and still am) really confused by this.
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Give Me Web Fonts, Or Give Me Death
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Most web designers know that typographic options on the web are… well, lacking. The list of fonts that are available on all computers is a short one. Luckily, though, we have CSS font stacks. This allows us to specify the font that we want, and then provide a list of backup fonts in case a visitor to our website doesn’t have the one we intended. Font stacking is all well and good, but imagine how great it would be if we could ensure that every visitor to our website saw the font that we wanted them to see every time. How great would that be? No more Arial in place of Helvetica. No more Georgia instead of Hoefler Text.
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What’s A College Grad To Do?
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As my days as a college student draw to a close, I find myself looking forward to beginning my career in the web. I can’t wait to start designing websites for a living, but finding a job is proving difficult. Here’s a rundown of my current experience:
Part Time Job
I’ve been offered a contract position at Mighty, a small web design agency in downtown Grand Rapids. Right now, I’m waiting to hear if it’s going to work out and if so, when I can start.
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Web Design and College
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Universities are great places to learn a lot of things. Traditional four-year programs offer a lot of courses that are of huge benefit to students. One program, though, that seems to be out of place in most traditional universities is web design. The reason I say this is because, unfortunately, I chose to major in web design at a traditional college.
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The Importance of Specialization
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I’ve been learning web design for a couple of years now. Up until recently, though, I never really understood how important specialization is. For the last few months, I have been moving from one language to another, learning bits and pieces. As a result, I have a pretty basic knowledge of many different web technologies.