Sometimes you come across something that you just have to share. The other day I got the chance to go back in time. Back in the past, to feel and to see something of raw beauty that I personally have not experienced before.
Im talking about the work that I found in an exercise book and the craftsmanship in some Victorian era books.
The work in the school exercise book was lovely completed by a middle class Irish 10 year old, under English rule at the time. Those 03 dates on this work are not from 2002, but 1902, all the way back to the Edwardian era.
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If you have read as many web design books as I have you find that they fall into basically two categories:
- The ones in which the author waxes on about how wonderful they are at design, show off page after page of their own portfolio. The entire book becomes a publicity fest.
- Then there is the type of book that is presented in a level headed manner, it is a great reference of the step by step process that web designers go through to product a web site.
Well Internet Explorer 8 is out of Beta and has finally been released. It didn’t meet the IE8 in 2008 proclamation that some where betting on. But no matter at least it is here, better late than never, eh.
Yes it’s faster meaner, clean and generally a better browser than IE7. There is lots of fancy stuff I can’t use from a design view as other browsers don’t support it, but innovation is still good. As a User Experience designer, it’s a nicer browser to work with. It lines up and supports most of the standards, mind you I do suspect it was written to pass Acid 2 specifically and not o be complaint with all of the upcoming W3C guidelines.
I was having a discussion the other day with some fellow web designer friends on the skills that you required to be stay in this field long term.
Sure we all agreed you need to at least have the core design skills, understanding of layout, colour theory, typography and the usual tricks of the trade. The platform that you used to deliver your designs was immaterial, be that Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks or the like it didn’t really matter, the end result was what was important. That’s a given.
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