Simplified User Interface
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User Interface Design
Ever wasted time trying to figure out how to do something in an application? I know I've sat and cursed at badly designed user interfaces, just as everyone else has, and thanks to an awesome book, Designing the Obvious by Robert Hoekman Jr., I've been thinking about user interface design nearly every day.
Whether we like to admit it or not, every page on the internet is at heart a user interface; a website's design really isn't anything other then a UI for that site's content. Sure its not an application, but hard to find buttons and links are just as annoying as hard to find settings and options.
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Reusable CSS Design
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One of my favorite things about the web is seeing the transformation from the 'ancient', flat text of the early 90s into the slick, beautiful web designs that modern users expect. The wonders of CSS have unlocked amazing new potential for design, and created some wonderfully clean and usable site desins like Web 2.0 at http://www.openwebdesign.org/. This design is appealing, clear, and the content can really shine. Unfortunately, CSS people seem to have no idea what a pain it is to work with designs like this.
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Opacity Control Across Browsers
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I don't know about you, but I happen to find transparent and semitransparent layering to be one of the coolest effects for building web pages, and now, thanks to Mandarin Design I know know how to control opacity with ease. Check it out.
Hacking it up
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Licensing
So, I double checked the creative commons license, and it seems I'm good to go to hack this thing up... and this is what it looks like so far. I'm having a bit of a tricky spot with the comments... the tag use in BlogCFC is rather opaque to me, so its slow work. Added to that that the Stylevantage layout isn't setup for the same widths as BlogCFC is making things rough.
Setting Up Shop
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Licensing
I'm trying out BlogCFC, and trying to figure out if I'm allowed to hack the front end display... if I am then expect to see changes to the look fairly often.
Man, I've got to fix this image floating thing, it keeps pushing the bottom bar around funny if I've not got enough text.
Testing YouTube Video content.
If it proves too annoying, I'll get rid of it.
