Books & Media Website
We launched a new website a few weeks ago for a new venture, Books & Media.
I wrote a blog about the ampersand a while back at the time I was working on the logo, I had been quite keen to use Bickham Script Pro italic but it didn’t quite work out so I used Baskerville italic. The main font is Frutiger Linotype.
Aside from the web design and logo I also created some business cards.
Screenshot of the new Ehaus website design
Been working away on a new design for the Ehaus website over the last couple of months and am pleased it has now launched. Pretty happy with this one, and a definite improvement on the last design, some nice jQuery touches and I think it showcases what we do really well.
My latest work for Ehaus, the Galaxy British Book Awards website.
The 2009 Nibbies Web Site
Some nice touches on this site, plenty of jQuery on the front page including an image rotator, an accordion and a carousel. There’s also a pop-up box for embeded video files. I also set up a blog for the award.
PS. Guardian launches Open Platform, enabling users to build applications with the Guardian.
Death to IE 6
Got an email from iStockphoto today saying they are withdrawing support for Internet Explorer 6 from 2010. This reminded me of a statement I read from 37signals some months ago that they were phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6. I read this initial article with much interest as this browser causes me an enormous amount of stress, unbelievably however, it still has a market share of around 20%, although I wouldn’t be surprised if half of that is developers and designers looking at page views over and over until they’ve fixed a problem.
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jFlow Screenshot
Have been on the look out for a nice jQuery image transition effect and came across this great article, 57+ Free Image Gallery, Slideshow And Lightbox Solutions over at 1stwebdesigner.com.
Two I really liked were s3Slider and jFlow, I think I’m going to use the s3Slider one on a project I’m working on.
P.S. There’s a new Firefox add-on for Firebug called FireScope from the people over at SitePoint
P.P.S. Microsoft has unleashed Release Candidate 1 of IE8.