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  • December 12, 2008 in Friday Blog Clips

    5 for Friday | The Week's Best Blogs (12/12/08 Edition)

    This was one of those great web blog weeks—one of those weeks where I have a hard time narrowing my favorite articles down to just five. I struggled for awhile over whether or not to leave the web geek Christmas list in there but I just couldn't resist. Sorry if anyone feels cheated. Here this week's 5 for Friday:

  • December 10, 2008 in Programming & IT

    From iPod to Embed: Building an .M4V Video Player in Flash CS3

    During my first trip to the SXSW interactive conference in 2004 I remember attending a video blog panel put on by the guys (and gal) at RocketBoom.com. They were using QuickTime for video playback, and during the question and answer segment, I raised my hand and asked if they had considered using the "new" Flash video format. They had no idea what I was talking about. Of course, these days Flash video has taken over the world, and apparently RocketBoom.com even got on board with the revolution.The advent of the Flash video format was the last revolution in online video. But now we are faced with a new challenge: .flv files won't play on iPods or in iTunes. And with the popularity of video podcasting growing, it seems that the only solution is to create two versions of every video—one to embed and another to podcast. But that's not the case. In this article I'll show you how to build a simple Flash video player that streams .m4v video files.

  • December 5, 2008 in Friday Blog Clips

    5 for Friday | The Week's Best Blogs (12/5/08 Edition)

    I enjoyed discussing the concept of design as interpretation this week. Thanks to everyone who commented on the article Design Interprets. Design Speak. Design Matters. I plan to continue developing those ideas in the future. For now, though, I'd like to welcome Yongfook to the 5 for Friday list. I enjoyed his 10 dirty web development tricks and I'm sure you will as well.

  • December 2, 2008 in Business & Process

    Design Interprets. Design Speaks. Design Matters.

    A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article featuring various Bible designs and explaining how they serve as an interpretive layer on top of the biblical text. This concept of design as interpretation has deep implications for designers. Our work acts as a series of bridges between raw data, solutions, and people. When one of these bridges has a green wire crossed with a red wire, the whole system may fail to accomplish its task. But how do we get it right? What are the rules? Where are our personal tastes legitimate, and where are they harmful? And how can we best ensure that we are we are both interpreting correctly and that our solution matches our interpretation?

  • November 28, 2008 in Friday Blog Clips

    5 for Friday | The Week's Best Blogs (11/28/08 Edition)

    For those of you living in America: I hope you got plenty to eat yesterday. For everyone else: I hope you got a lot done at work yesterday. It being the day after Thanksgiving, I thought I'd add a couple of lighthearted links to this ordinarily serious list. I'm sure you will enjoy Veerle's first website article as well as Techie Zone's 10 Most Addictive Online Flash Games. See. Even if you don't live in America, you can still benefit from the Thanksgiving holiday. I am truly thankful to God for my family, and my vocation and I hope that all of you share the sentiment.

  • November 25, 2008 in Design Tips & Tutorials

    Mission Impossible: A Diagonal Nav Rollover Effect with CSS

    The HTML rendering model is based on boxes. Every element of a web page is a box set on a grid. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that our graphics all have to be squares and rectangles. Over the years we've gotten pretty creative in our attempts to break the grid (or at least create the illusion that we've broken the grid). Still, there are limitations we've come to accept. One of them is the inability to build an overlapping diagonal navigation. Without using image maps and complicated Javascript, it's a task that seems almost impossible. In this article, I'm going to share a method I developed to overcome the problem. When you're finished with the tutorial, you'll have a simple, semantic, diagonal set of navigation buttons (rollover effect included).

  • November 21, 2008 in Friday Blog Clips

    5 for Friday | The Week's Best Blogs (11/21/08 Edition)

    I was happy to see the positive response to my Bible design article earlier this week. Every once in awhile I post something that I'm just sure will step on some toes; I'm usually pleasantly surprised. I'm interested in exploring the thought of design as a layer of interpretation in later posts so keep your eyes out for that in the next few weeks. Here are this week's 5 for Friday:

  • November 18, 2008 in Design Inspiration

    Bible Design: Illuminated Manuscripts to Postmodern Power Plays

    How does design affect the way we read and interpret God's word? I started considering this question recently after Isral Duke, a designer out of Baton Rouge, contacted me with a thought provoking poster featuring Titus 1:7-8. By nature, design adds an interpretive grid to a body of information. Even the most unintrusive layout communicates subliminally about the designer's view of the contained text. And since God's specific revelation to man (the Bible) has been given to us as written literature, the importance of the design containing its text should be of great concern to us. Until now, I've never seriously considered the implications of Bible design. How has it been approached in the past? What is modern design doing to the Bible today? And most importantly, how will this generation of designers shape Bible design in the future?

  • November 14, 2008 in Friday Blog Clips

    5 for Friday | The Week's Best Blogs (11/14/08 Edition)

    It's been awhile since I've mentioned Vandelay Design here in my introduction to 5 for Friday. But this week Steven's article about 21 ways to communicate with visitors is worth mentioning. A lot of the links on 5 for Friday focus on technical design skills, but if after applying all these skills our sites don't effectively communicate then it doesn't really matter.

  • November 11, 2008 in Business & Process

    What to do When the World Wants to Cut Web Design from the Budget

    It's no secret that marketing and technology budgets are the first to get thrown overboard when money gets tight. The web designer is in the unfortunate position of fitting squarely into both of those categories. Also, unlike our sister graphic design, web design has never seen hard times like we're moving into now. We were in uncharted seas to begin with, and now a storm is coming. But are the results of a tightening belt destined to be only grim? Absolutely not. We will weather this storm and come out the other side all the better as long as we stay long-sighted and stick to a few basic principles.

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