ALA 230: Make the logo smaller
Happy Cog starts its publishing year with a great little issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites:
- Whitespace
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by Mark Boulton
So you think you know all about whitespace. You may be surprised. Mark Boulton, type expert to the stars, shows how micro and macro whitespace push brands upscale (or down) and enhance legibility in print and online.
- How to Grok Web Standards
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by Craig Cook
For designers who find web standards as easy to grasp as a buttered eel, Craig Cook shows how to stop the hurting and turn on the understanding. Learn how web standards work, and why they are more than simply an alternative means of producing a visual design.
Tags: design, typography, whitespace, webdesign, webstandards
Filed under: A List Apart, Design, Publishing, Standards
Regarding the ‘Web Standards’ article: It takes quite a while (and a lot of work) to start building and designing web pages around standards… But it pays to do so.
Recently on a class I took, they asked us what we thought about e-commerce websites and one of the things that I mentioned was that they should get closer and closer to web standards, a typical reaction I got from my peers was that “web standards are a pain, and that they are not always the way to go”.
Sadly that’s how many many organizations think, and while the push for standards is more and more common within the web design community, we still have to convince ‘the man’ who normally is focused on short term do-it-with-tables-because-its-quicker mentality.
Great articles, as usual.
A lot of “A List Apart” articles are aimed at educating graphic designers about technology issues (such as “web standards”). This is fine. But how about some more articles that educate technical people about graphic design issues? As a tech person, I would love to learn more about making attractive designs.
We hear you! In the current issue, you’ll find a dandy article on whitespace. It covers an aspect of design that non-designers don’t know much about — and even designers can stand to learn more about. I know I found the article illuminating.
Trent, I agree its hard to get graphic design tips except for a few sites like Before And After. There are books on it but not a whole lot of really good ones, best thing is to take a course on it and search out the few that colleges use and ones trusted designers refer to.