Here’s an update about what’s going on in the wonderful web world of {e} house studio. We’ve recently launched two great sites for some really great clients: FIG and Campion Platt.
Here’s a recent addition to my little bag of tricks - it adds a subtle touch to the everyday image rollover effect with a minimal amount of additional code.
An example of the effect can be seen here:
http://labs.ehousestudio.com/code/jquery_rollovers/
Sexy, eh? Easy to implement too. Here’s how it’s done.
{e} Interviews Cynthia Waddell, Executive Director of the ICDRI
March 18th, 2009 by Jessica - 1 Comment
Cynthia Waddell, known globally for her tremendous achievements in the advancement of web accessibility, spoke with {e} this week. She reflects on her career path, her continuous efforts to bring civil rights to people with disabilities and clears up some common misconceptions about Section 508.
Raising Standards: Tips for Creating a Brand Style Guide
February 27th, 2009 by Jessica - No Comments
Protecting a brand’s identity can seem like a jaunting task, especially when you need to communicate its importance to a client. That’s why it’s a great idea to include a Visual Standards Manual (aka brand style guide) with any logo you design for a client, so they have a reference point before making major decisions.
There has been a lot of discussion from the beginning of web design as to whether or not a designer should know how to write code and if a developer should know how to design. Should these 2 roles be filled by 1 person?
For those of you who have an interest in quality design, fashion, great colors, unique patterns, and a good cause, then Proud Mary ( www.proudmary.org ) has something for you. Harper Poe, co-owner of the company took a few minutes to let me in on the background of how the company began, what it is today and even a little bit about herself.
As most traditional business owners have noticed, catering to the needs of Generation Y is a whole different ball game. This youthful workforce, born anywhere from 1980 to 2000, is expected to change jobs a minimum of seven times in their lifetime. This is in sharp contrast to their grandparents, who commonly devoted their entire career to one company. Managers are coming up with new, “outside of the box” ways to attract young talent and to keep those sought after employees from jumping ship.
Generation Yers, who currently make up 21% of the workforce, are wanted for their cleverness in creativity, multi-tasking and their savvy technical skills. However, this audacious group has a tendency to question authority and have a different set of priorities all together. For many, raising a family and enjoying life takes presidency over fast tracking their careers.
A Look at the WCAG 2.0 Guidelines for Accessibility
When the team asked me to write a post for the Chalkboard blog this week, we kicked around some ideas regarding what I should write about. We threw out such riveting topics such as “If Captain Kirk was a Mac, and Captain Picard was a PC, who would really win in a laser-gun fight?” and “at what point do you go deaf when reading internet posts written in capital letter?” (Though, I think we’re going to save this gem for a later date.) When we started talking about web accessibility, my mind immediately went to the announcement that the W3C had recently published the first update to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in almost 10 years, bringing it up to version 2.0. Only Guns & Roses took longer to issue a new release. (The argument could be made, of course, that Guns is not really Guns without Slash, but I digress.)
We’d like to welcome Sam King, our new Senior Developer, to the {e} house team.
Sam comes to us from the land of freelance where he juggled everything from graphic, print and web design to front-end and application development. He has spent much of the past three years serving as creative director and senior front-end developer for a small start-up company in Ohio building a web-based electronic medical records system for small-practice physicians. In addition, Sam has also worked with a number of diverse clients, including Workplace Fairness, a non-profit organization that provides information and advocacy about job rights and employment issues, and Microsoft.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
We have recently been experimenting with different creative processes and workflows at {e}. The website design process is one that has successfully changed for us. There are many different theories about the workflow process in web design. Some people dive right into photoshop, some people draw it on paper first. Although I definitely have my preferences and know what works for me, I understand and appreciate that every designer is different. I have always started my designs on paper with a pen or a sharpie. These sketches have always been nothing more than wireframes for me to identify the grid and structure of the site. This allows us to look at the UI from a usability standpoint without all the factors of type, color, and imagery. The wireframe on paper has been great for me to get a clear idea down before I start designing, but jumping straight into a design from a wireframe on paper has proven to be a big leap.
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