For the third (3rd) month in row, a bigflannel website is featured in SlideshowPro Sites of The Month. Besides visiting Demond's site and blog you can follow him on Twitter. Or perhaps you might contact me to discuss building yourself a super website.
Demond Meek shoots portraits and environmental portraiture. He is by nature not so meek and you can see his strong point of view in his blog. It's a real treat as his fullscreen website. Love this image.
Congratulations Julie. aCurator is PDN's Online Magazine Pick of the Month. bigflannel gets a mention too. The aCurator magazine is getting a great response. Right now the 'Black Cowboys of America' are on the cover and I am wondering if you can hire them to perform urban rescues?
from the source is an inspiring brand, bringing responsibly harvested, reclaimed and salvaged product and woods from Indonesia to New York City and beyond. This site is both a fullscreen portfolio of their work and a scrolling catalog for power users. It is also a blog with social media integration. Fully dynamic, the site enables from the source staff to maintain a current catalog of product alongside being able to promote that product with blog entries and twitter integration.
Today, I got a Gawker Gold Star for all my hard work commenting on their site. Thank you Apple for providing me, of late, with the necessary bile to rise to the challenge of a fitting and funny comment worthy of Gawker and its commenters.
Jeremy Keith's 'HTML5 For Web Designers' is a great book. I can see that A List Apart's series will be a fixture in my studio, great design, great voice, bite size. Can't wait for No.2 whatever it might be.
But reading through the book a few things immediately became apparent. Web designers are already being told off for creating apps using the Canvas tag that will not be indexed as they do not follow the DOM model. Sounds like the same things we heard as Flash developers. Now why the design of a website should be defined by the capacities of search bots I don't know. I design sites for users with eyes: search bots don't have eyes so Google tells us. People need to find stuff sure, but why should we limit ourselves to designing for a robotic code reader?
Then I learn't that the HTML5 tag to rival to Flash is called Canvas ... and it was introduced by Apple, who are spearheading the fight against Flash. Ewwww Apple, you look worse and worse. What's more, Canvas is really just an API for running Javascript as an engine on a page. None of the content in the Canvas tag can be indexed and animation and effects are accomplished with complex code (as in Apple's HTML5 demo). Wait a minute I said to myself, this feels like Flash 10 years ago. You know what, it is Flash 10 years ago.
My warning, you will hate complex multi media sites coded in HTML5, CSS and Javascript more than you already hate Flash websites (Javascript was once considered a darker art than Flash).
In the meantime, bigflannel will keep producing fantastic sites that engage human users, can be found in the search engines, and are not limited by what a robot can decipher. Be it in Flash, HTML5 or whatever the next powerful tech company figures is its means to world domination.
P.S. It took the powers at be a pretty long time to even agree whether to call the new standard HTML5 or HTML 5, the difference being the space. Standards are great but I'm relieved Adobe chose to produce proprietary software, which they can develop and control as they deem fit, as it has enabled me to produce useful websites despite the lack of standards. Thank you Adobe.
Karen's full site actually launched a month or so back. It's both a fullscreen editorial style portfolio of her design work and a scrolling catalog of designs for power users. Both aspects of the site are powered by Wordpress.
Leland is blogging. It's an opportunity to find out more about his work: the scapes, the portraits and of course the neo-burlesques. His Women of 5th Avenue project was featured recently in aCurator.
aCurator.com was featured in last month's SlideshowPro Sites of The Month. Besides visiting the site and the blog you can follow on Twitter or Facebook.
JUWLZ New York is a world where imagination meets luxury. A collection of fashion accessories and jewelry combines innovative shapes, colors, and textures with the technique of traditional hand embroideries. This is an ecommerce site.