Is 800×600 already the worst-case scenario?

Last week after visiting CNN.com for the first time in a while, I noticed that together with a new design, they’d switched to a wider layout for 1024+ viewports.

Today I followed a link (via digg) about the New York Times redesign, who have also adopted a wider layout and in so … view full post

CNET’s new look Download.com

It’s has so far gone largely unnoticed, apart from a brief mention by a member of the team involved: CNET’s new look Download.com.
Celebrating it’s 10th anniversary this month, CNET.com was also recently redesigned.

First impression goes something like this: wow!

What … view full post

A summary of CSS-based layout techniques

Over the past few months, I’ve mentioned in my weblob a number of new and exciting layout techniques that have surfaced. Below is a summary of the traditional CSS-based, tableless layouts, and these new techniques that you as a web designer would hopefully consider while planning a standards-compliant site. I’ve also included what I believe are the pros and … view full post

Oracle website

I just stumbled upon the Oracle website which immediately caught my eye.

Although they’re using a table-based layout, I love how they’ve designed the table to fill the browser width on any resolution, while the neatly constructed flash images slide over each other when you resize your browser. At 800×600, most of the flash image on the right disappears while … view full post

Edgars website update

At the beginning of this month, I wrote briefly about the new Edgars website – www.edgars.co.za. Having visited again a few weeks later, I find that attempts have been made to correct almost everything that I had mentioned. Coincidence or not, the fact remains that nothing they’ve changed is for the better. … view full post

Some more geeky linkage

Some more geeky linkage before I head off to bed.

The Ultimate Computer Chair by Roger Arrick, linked off a donkey on the edge, by Dug Falby, author of Flexible Layouts with CSS Positioning.

And somehow off one of … view full post