tag:,2010:/1 2010-08-31T16:14:14Z Simple, elegant and unique websites. Movable Type Open Source 4.12 tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.86 2010-08-31T16:00:52Z 2010-08-31T16:14:14Z

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...

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.]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.85 2010-08-13T18:09:06Z 2010-08-13T18:27:45Z

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....

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.]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.84 2010-08-05T16:14:52Z 2010-08-05T16:42:55Z

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...

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?]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.83 2010-07-09T15:25:08Z 2010-07-09T15:45:17Z

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...

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.]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.82 2010-07-07T15:37:16Z 2010-07-07T15:47:23Z

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...

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. ]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.81 2010-07-06T14:34:45Z 2010-07-06T15:15:53Z

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....

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.]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.80 2010-06-25T16:57:23Z 2010-06-25T17:20:25Z

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....

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. Karen Singh Designs]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.79 2010-06-21T19:53:40Z 2010-06-21T20:11:44Z

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. Leland's Blog...

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. Leland's Blog]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.78 2010-06-18T14:40:48Z 2010-06-18T15:11:01Z

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....

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.]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.77 2010-06-14T16:24:38Z 2010-07-09T15:47:20Z

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. JUWLZ New York...

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. JUWLZ New York]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.76 2010-05-06T15:06:41Z 2010-07-09T15:48:40Z

Interior architecture & design and garden & landscape designers Wixon Gibbs' full site has launched. They were lovely to work with. Their site is very elegant, much like their work. Wixon Gibbs...

Interior architecture & design and garden & landscape designers Wixon Gibbs' full site has launched. They were lovely to work with. Their site is very elegant, much like their work. Wixon Gibbs]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.75 2010-04-29T14:21:26Z 2010-04-29T14:30:59Z

Steve Jobs Thoughts on Flash 'Sixth, the most important reason ... We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers ... Adobe just adopted it fully...

Steve Jobs Thoughts on Flash 'Sixth, the most important reason ... We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers ... Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X ...'. But hey, it's OK for us all to be at the mercy of Apple right? My colleague, Martin, said he had read recent reflections on political campaigning that stated 'if you're explaining you're losing'. I come from the school that imagines politics is actually about explaining, so this depresses me, until I think about Steve Jobs explaining his decision and posting pages about which websites you can actually see on the iPad. Whilst I think tablets will be incredibly important devices in our future, I hope the iPad is an iFad, because if not, we're all going to be beholden to Apple and have to pay the 40% Apple tax on all things digital (ads, apps, magazines, music ...). tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.73 2010-04-07T19:41:02Z 2010-06-18T15:03:54Z

Julie Grahame is a photo industry veteran of 20 years and my wife. An ex-owner of Retna, the independent image licensing company, and a current representative of The Estate of Yousuf Karsh, she knows a thing or two about...

Julie Grahame is a photo industry veteran of 20 years and my wife. An ex-owner of Retna, the independent image licensing company, and a current representative of The Estate of Yousuf Karsh, she knows a thing or two about images. We collaborated on aCurator after working with ZOOZOOM. It's getting a great response. aCurator]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.72 2010-03-31T14:02:30Z 2010-03-31T14:18:23Z

markkatzman.com is featured in this month's SlideshowPro Top Ten websites. Thank you SlideshowPro for making a great product and for featuring bigflannel's work. In October of last year, tedmorrison.com was featured in the same top ten list....

markkatzman.com is featured in this month's SlideshowPro Top Ten websites. Thank you SlideshowPro for making a great product and for featuring bigflannel's work. In October of last year, tedmorrison.com was featured in the same top ten list.]]> tag:blog.bigflannel.com,2010://1.71 2010-03-25T15:22:02Z 2010-03-25T15:33:40Z

Reading Gawker this morning I noticed a post about emailing Steve Jobs, which was handy, because right now, that is exactly what I want to do. So I did, and have copied it below (and will post any response):...

Reading Gawker this morning I noticed a post about emailing Steve Jobs, which was handy, because right now, that is exactly what I want to do. So I did, and have copied it below (and will post any response): Hi Steve I am a long time Apple user and fan. I am also a long-time Adobe user and fan. My web design and development work has been recognized with Webby awards and other accolades. Regards Flash, how can you partner with ATT and call Flash buggy? ATT are one of the worst cell providers there is. 75% of my calls in NYC are dropped. Flash is a useful web plugin (not perfect admittedly) that is optional. Users can choose to install it or not. Why am I forced to use ATT and yet don't have the option to use Flash on an iPhone or iPad? You look silly right now and the attack on Flash looks like that, an attack, a format war, an iPad and iPhone revenue stream issue. I am forced to use ATT, I have no option, and they are terrible. Users can choose to use Flash or not, and although not perfect, it is an extremely useful technology for certain purposes. You are simply wrong and I hope you either willingly change this silly position or are forced to do so for some reason. Regards Mike Hartley]]>