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Version Se7en
Today marks the seventh version of carlrafting.com. It has been a long time in the making. Kinda hard to tell by looking around here. But as always when you’re designing and developing your own personal website/blog, it’s harder than doing it for clients or other projects. It’s always more to think about than you first realize. At least it was for me.
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An Interview with Jeremy Keith - The Industry
If you’re doing web development, Jeremy Keith is probably no stranger to you. The Industry recently did an interview with him. I really enjoyed his view on writing, as it’s something i’m struggling with. On the other hand, writing is something that i also find very rewarding.
The ability to express yourself, as a designer, is hugely important: There was a post from 37Signals a few years back, about how, when they were hiring, they looked for people who could write, because it’s a form of communication, and design is a lot about communication. So yeah, write. For its own sake, without expecting to get anything back. If you expect to get something back, you’ll only be disappointed when it doesn’t happen, and you’ll kinda self-censor yourself.
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autogrow — Less frustrating textareas
Last week, about one week after i released designGrid, i published yet another little project that i’ve been working on. This time i’m trying to solve the problem with textareas, or rather the frustration of using them, especially when you’re going to write a lot of text. See textareas are designed to always have a fixed height and when you’re typing a lot it becomes hard to get a coherent sense of what you’ve written. Of course the scrollbar will eventually appear, but instead of it appearing on the text area itself, it will appear on the page, like it should.
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designGrid — A grid-tool for fluid grids
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A note on media-queries and mobile devices
These days, there is a lot of talk about reponsive design and mobile/content first. While i think we can agree on that these strategies isn’t entirely bulletproof (yet!), they have a ceratin appeal and can be fairly easy to implement and use today. I do believe that this approach is better than making a mobile version of a website, but that is probably necessary sometimes.
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First Responder
In his latest blog-post, Rob Weychert writes about how he constructed his first responsive design, which is his own website and blog. He goes into detail about how his grid is constructed and scales to different viewports (or even devices).
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We, Who Are Web Designers
Jon Tangerine writes about what it means to be a web designer and how sometimes, people will have the wrong idea about what it is you actually do. Every web designer should read this.
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New webproject. A quick silly ~1 hour weekend project
This idea came to me when i thought to myself, what if i could just type one command into the terminal, and the folders and documents i needed where there? I immediately got to work and came up with this, it doesn’t look much yet but it is indeed handy and i intend to expand it further than this. Say, maybe get a bunch of files from github?
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Flat, simple icons for interface design
On the hunt for icons for your next design project? Meagan Fisher has, with help from Twitter, compiled a list with nice icons.
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The Evolution of a Design
One of the things that makes designing for the web so appealing, is that it’s either cheap or even free to improve and iterate on a design over time, this is something that doesn’t work in, for example print (for obvious reasons). Unfortunatly this is something that doesn’t always happen when web designers work for clients, but on the other hand, changing a design too much would confuse potential customers. So what it comes down to is figuring out how much of the design can be improved upon.
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My name is Carl Räfting and i’m currently spending my time studying web application development at Jensen Education YH in Gothenburg, Sweden. Learn More »