It’s flexible layouts on this week’s Friday Focus. I’ll be loose with the definition though, since 100% fluid width layouts are so hard to come by! Designs of the Week This is just a well-put together site. From the type to the colors to the images to the layout, everything feels l...

Skittles on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube Years from now, people will look back to the day Skittles ditched its flashy site and chose to load the top social websites that talk about it instead. I can’t even begin to fathom how brilliant a campaign this is (despite being pioneered by Moder...

It’s one page portfolios this week on Friday Focus. And you just know there has to be some JavaScript-y effects when that happens. An added twist: let’s alternate between designs that are dirty and clean! Designs of the Week It may look chaotic on first glance, perhaps because of all the...

When Obama Wins scours and displays tweets containing the phrase 'when Obama wins' I’m fascinated by the single-purpose websites that have been cropping up for the past year. I’m not much of an internet historian to track down exactly when the first of its kind came out, but they officia...

All the hoopla over Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!, a book by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank (see also the Digital Web article) is making me feel uneasy. We’re not wrong; the title is wrong I detest the title of the book. No, I don’t think “everything” I know about CSS...

It’s Friday the 13th, so let’s celebrate this eerie date with some dark designs. Designs of the Week Web design guru Dave Shea is behind this redesign (it’s his company, after all) that’s turning heads. Excellent effects using jQuery, and that accent image in the welcome blur...

A “website designed by…” link is like a Louis Vuitton monogram. It’s your brand. Let your clients wear it on their websites as proudly they would with a designer handbag. Is this always true? What makes this practice highly recommended or downright tacky? It depends. It alway...

What’s the lesson for this week? Describe the purpose of your website in one fell swoop and you’ll go a long way. Of course, it helps to have a great design as well. Designs of the Week Definition: the use of a word in the opposite sense of its proper meaning. Two things I really like he...

thesixtyone, which calls itself “a music adventure”, is an online community where artists upload their music and listeners decide which songs are the best. As The Drop puts it, the site is an “almost game like format [that] consistently keeps you interested” with its “i...

This comes as a surprise. Aux of Cogent Metal is vehemently against webpages that have narrow layout widths. And I thought web designers are now more worried about the opposite: the wide layouts that whip out the horizontal scrollbars in resolutions narrower than 1024×768. This is another proof...