Vignettes are something we’ve been able to add to images in Photoshop for many years – it describes the technique of reducing clarity towards the edges of images by reducing things like saturation and brightness, and can often give an image a different quality. It was for that reason that I decided I wanted to… Continue reading Adding Vignettes to Images with CSS
Month: May 2011
Trimming the Fat
In light of the recent redesign of Tom’s Big Box I thought I write a post about some of the design choices I made with regard to ‘trimming the fat’. I want to look at the attitudes towards certain aspects of websites, and more specifically blogs. In re-designing the site I was constantly asking myself… Continue reading Trimming the Fat
Site Redesign 2011
Well I finally got around to it! For months I’ve been procrastinating and finding other thing to do, but today I am proud to announce that I have successfully redesigned the blog and built a new theme. What you see before you is the result of many hours working on design and coding (as most… Continue reading Site Redesign 2011
Updates are coming!
I’ve not blogged in months, I know, I’m lazy. But things are going to change. I am in the process of redesigning the site and have a number of articles that I’m working on, so this is just a post to check in and let you know I’m not gone and am going to return… Continue reading Updates are coming!