Responsive Design

February 22, 2011
Hicks Design Mobile

Building a mobile version of a site relies on user agent sniffing and is in fact a completely separate site that is accessible via a subdomain. Responsive design is a single site. This means that instead of being forced to fragment markup and features to different sites, the designer can write a single HTML document that has varying CSS based on resolution. Imagine a single, shorter development cycle and feature parity across devices and browsers.

Read More »
Posted in Design | Leave a comment

CSS3 Photo Gallery

February 17, 2011

This blog has been a bit quiet the last few weeks, thanks to a combination of being extremely busy at work and battling a very nasty cold. Because of these circumstances, writing has been placed on the back burner. I have still been working on sharpening my design toolset when my mind permits, and I recently finished reading Dan Cederholm’s fantastic CSS3 for Web Designers. Like the previous entry in the A Book Apart series, this book is fantastic. It focuses on using CSS3 to enhance a website while degrading gracefully for browsers that don’t yet support the features.

Read More »
Posted in Code | 2 Comments

Rework

January 24, 2011

I don’t read many business books. Something about them makes me feel nauseous. There’s an ongoing fear that if I read too many of them, I’ll buy a bluetooth headset and start chewing gum. It’s a childish fear, I know, but I still have it. Something about the word ‘business’ causes thoughts of suits in drawn out meetings discussing paradigm shifts and synergy. Based on this level of apprehension, I am proud to say that I recently read a business book and actually enjoyed it. In fact I liked it so much that I read it in one sitting. Obviously, this is no ordinary business book.

Read More »
Posted in Communication | 5 Comments