http://blog.bigflannel.com/ Simple, elegant and unique websites. en Copyright 2010 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:00:52 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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.]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/08/award_slideshowpro_sites_of_th_1.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/08/award_slideshowpro_sites_of_th_1.html Awards News aCurator AS3 Demond Meek Flash Mark Katzman SlideshowPro Director SlideshowPro Top Ten Ted Morrison Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:00:52 -0500 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.]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/08/website_demond_meek.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/08/website_demond_meek.html Projects bigflannel Websites AS3 Demond Meek Flash SlideshowPro Director Wordpress Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:09:06 -0500 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?]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/08/awards_pdn_photo_district_news.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/08/awards_pdn_photo_district_news.html Awards News aCurator Awards PDN Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:14:52 -0500 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.]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/07/website_from_the_source.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/07/website_from_the_source.html bigflannel Websites AS3 CSS Flash from the source HTML HTML Email MailChimp Mailing List Wordpress Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:25:08 -0500 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. ]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/07/awards_my_gawker_gold_star.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/07/awards_my_gawker_gold_star.html Awards News Gawker Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:37:16 -0500 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.]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/07/stuff_html5_ipad.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/07/stuff_html5_ipad.html Stuff A Book Apart A List Apart Apple CSS Flash HTML HTML5 iPad Javascript Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:34:45 -0500 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]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/06/website_karen_singh_designs_1.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/06/website_karen_singh_designs_1.html bigflannel Websites AS3 CSS Flash HTML Karen Singh MailChimp Wordpress Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:57:23 -0500 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]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/06/website_leland_bobbe_blogs.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/06/website_leland_bobbe_blogs.html bigflannel Websites Blog Contact CSS HTML Leland Bobbé Wordpress Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:53:40 -0500 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.]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/06/award_slideshowpro_sites_of_th.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/06/award_slideshowpro_sites_of_th.html Awards News aCurator AS3 Flash Mark Katzman SlideshowPro Director SlideshowPro Top Ten Ted Morrison Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:40:48 -0500 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]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/06/website_juwlz_new_york.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/06/website_juwlz_new_york.html bigflannel Websites .NET AS3 CSS Ecommerce Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:24:38 -0500 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]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/05/website_wixon_gibbs_1.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/05/website_wixon_gibbs_1.html bigflannel Websites AS3 Flash SlideshowPro Director Wixon Gibbs Thu, 06 May 2010 11:06:41 -0500 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 ...). http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/04/stuff_steve_jobs_and_flash_par.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/04/stuff_steve_jobs_and_flash_par.html Stuff Apple Flash Steve Jobs Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:21:26 -0500 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]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/04/website_acurator.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/04/website_acurator.html Projects bigflannel Websites aCurator AS3 Flash SlideshowPro Director SlideshowPro Top Ten Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:41:02 -0500 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.]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/03/award_slideshowpro_top_10.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/03/award_slideshowpro_top_10.html Awards News AS3 Flash Mark Katzman SlideshowPro Director SlideshowPro Top Ten Ted Morrison Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:02:30 -0500 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]]> http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/03/stuff_my_letter_to_steve_jobs.html http://blog.bigflannel.com/2010/03/stuff_my_letter_to_steve_jobs.html Stuff Apple Flash iPad iPhone Steve Jobs Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:22:02 -0500