Free Minimalist Desktop Wallpapers
Like many designers, I prefer my computer desktop to stay clean, organized, and clutter free. It’s not a place to hold files or applications, and it’s definitely not a place for a splashy, obnoxious image. Still, the desktop is a nice place to express creativity, so lets not be boring…
Read More ⊕Arting up the office with Susan Kare
It turns out my interior design sense is as clean and simple as my graphic design style. I prefer design that is modern and uncluttered; breathable yet punctuated with contrast. I’m also a fan of the Macintosh. While I haven’t been using one since 1984, it’s been a big part…
Read More ⊕Responsive Web Design – The Book
A Book Apart released Responsive Web Design today and I picked up a copy. I’m excited to get a better understanding of the whole responsive web picture – but I’m especially interested in hearing Ethan’s ideas on flexible grids and images (an area I’m still foggy about). I’ve read two…
Read More ⊕Designing for Mobile First
I’ve recently been involved in a project with a company who had interest in my work with mobile design with media queries. Before I began we talked what tools we wanted to use to create clean, lean code that worked across as many devices as possible. I of course suggested…
Read More ⊕Go Mobile with Responsive Design
Designing for the web has always been like catching a greased chameleon – as soon as you get a good grip everything changes and you’re looking for the elusive lizard on some new technological rock. Varying screen resolutions, user preferences, and browser inconsistencies are just a few of the variables…
Read More ⊕Spigot featured on Mediaqueri.es
Media Queries has kindly featured spigotdesign.com in their gallery of sites that use media queries for responsive web design. It’s a great place to go for inspiring designs that use @media in their development. I’ll be writing more about what that means in the near future. Take a look at…
Read More ⊕Fontsquirrel.com saves @font-face
Note: This post is a continutation of Sorry Typekit, you’re unusable (for now). With the launch of the new spigotdesign.com site I was very excited about the possibilities of using @font-face to spice up the typography on the site. Typekit was to be my weapon of choice here but it…
Read More ⊕Sorry Typekit, you’re unusable (for now)
With the launch of the new site I decided to try once again to give @font-face another try. I’ve been disappointed in the past with how most browsers render embedded fonts, including Firefox on both the Mac and PC. So when the Great and the Good in the web community…
Read More ⊕Fresh Foundation for Spigot
As a professional web designer, it comes with the territory that one’s own site is rebuilt on a fairly routine basis. So lately I’ve been spending my nights and weekend work hours rebuilding spigotdesign.com. The focus this time was not the design, but rather the foundation on which it’s built.
Read More ⊕Fontin Sans on spigotdesign.com
Web designers have long desired to be able to use more fonts than the standard list of web-safe fonts. When Apple introduced Safari 3.1 in March 2008 with support for @font-face embedding, it looked like we may have turned that corner. Over a year later, Safari is still the only…
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