http://design.sixfoot6.com/ en-us comments@sixfoot6.com Copyright 2005 2004-07-29T16:20:49-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000948.html My friends Matt and PeggyAnn are getting married, and I built their website on Sunday.... 948@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ My friends Matt and PeggyAnn are getting married, and I built their website on Sunday. ]]> 2004-07-29T16:20:49-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000718.html 718@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ Blogger completely redesigned their interface and launched some new lovely blog templates—all in efforts, it seems, to catch up to the slick and compliant TypePad, etc.

It's exciting to see good design become so common and folksy. Perhaps the day will come when young people can no longer tolerate default fonts and white backgrounds. ]]> 2004-05-10T10:46:42-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000688.html 300 Images From 1800 Sites: Might come in handy sometimes... I've been meaning to incorporate more icones and widgets and... 688@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ 300 Images From 1800 Sites: Might come in handy sometimes... I've been meaning to incorporate more icones and widgets and so on into my designs. ]]> 2004-04-29T09:58:33-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000633.html Airbag suggests a redesign for Whitehouse briefs. Good lesson on information presentation.... 633@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ a redesign for Whitehouse briefs. Good lesson on information presentation. ]]> 2004-04-12T10:04:46-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000624.html Design addition: Simplebits + Brookelyn (two of my Bloggie competitors) = aDeuxMains. I wonder if the derivative site sought permission?... 624@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ Simplebits + Brookelyn (two of my Bloggie competitors) = aDeuxMains. I wonder if the derivative site sought permission? ]]> 2004-04-09T10:58:50-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000560.html Good advice from Michael McDonough: Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School... 560@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School ]]> 2004-03-24T15:55:14-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000527.html D. Keith Robinson has written a nice article over at Digital Web that offers A Recipe for Learning Web Design.... 527@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ D. Keith Robinson has written a nice article over at Digital Web that offers A Recipe for Learning Web Design. My own experience and education have followed the same basic path he outlines... You need to want to learn web design, you need to have a place to experiment, and you need to be ready to recognize and embrace changes in style and technology as they happen. ]]> 2004-03-08T14:04:15-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000492.html What beautiful site design and portfolio presentation over at Fish Marketing.com. All with shadow effects and validating CSS design, of... 492@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ Fish Marketing.com. All with shadow effects and validating CSS design, of course. ]]> 2004-03-01T12:31:52-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000450.html Some purdy site dersigns I've encountered lately: hicksdesign, webstandards awards, and Shaun Inman.com.... 450@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ hicksdesign, webstandards awards, and Shaun Inman.com. ]]> 2004-02-19T10:00:27-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000357.html I have been nominated for a > Features >> Fourth Annual Weblog Awards" href="http://www.fairvue.com/?feature=awards2004">2004 Weblog Award in the Best Weblog... 357@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ > Features >> Fourth Annual Weblog Awards" href="http://www.fairvue.com/?feature=awards2004">2004 Weblog Award in the Best Weblog Design category for my Sixfruit6 design. If you vote for me, I'll get famous! ]]> 2004-01-22T14:34:23-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000353.html Christopher Hester invested a serious amount of time and scripting effort into an Extreme CSS project: an effort to recreate... 353@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ only CSS. About CSS Pencils offers an explanation, viewable versions, and screenshots of his efforts. ]]> 2004-01-22T10:31:08-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000352.html I've just rediscovered that Andy Pressman does some strikingly good print work.... 352@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ Andy Pressman does some strikingly good print work. ]]> 2004-01-22T10:22:39-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000332.html A Modest Browser Proposal: Microsoft should adopt IE. A great idea that will unfortunately never come to pass. But as... 332@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ A Modest Browser Proposal: Microsoft should adopt IE. A great idea that will unfortunately never come to pass. But as a designer, I'm praying. ]]> 2004-01-16T10:13:31-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000215.html From what I can tell, the CSS Creator Page Layout" href="http://www.csscreator.com/version2/pagelayout.php">CSS layout generator is quick to create some nice standards-compliant... 215@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ Page Layout" href="http://www.csscreator.com/version2/pagelayout.php">CSS layout generator is quick to create some nice standards-compliant code: "The generator will create a CSS layout that has fixed width left and/or right columns with a dynamic width center column, all the same height with header and footer." ]]> 2003-11-18T10:29:03-08:00 http://www.sixfoot6.com/archives/000198.html Thanks to Joe Maddalone's little trick, I'm now running IE 6, IE 5.5, IE 5.0, IE 4.01, and IE 3... 198@http://design.sixfoot6.com/ little trick, I'm now running IE 6, IE 5.5, IE 5.0, IE 4.01, and IE 3 concurrently on my Windows machine at work. I can't tell you what a designer's delight this is - no more running to a friend's machine to ensure that pages look okay in the frustrating boxy-hack that is IE 5.5; I've got all the power right here on one screen. Download each standalone browser from Skyzyx.com.

Beyond the practicality, it's loads of fun to see how various sites degrade in old browsers. I'm proud to say the Sixfoot6.com is fully functional in IE 3 (albeit without style). CSS-based designs such as this portfolio site, however, often render as an unreadable mess in IE 4.01 but as a clean semantic document in IE 3. Such is the pain of half-assed stylesheet support. ]]> 2003-11-12T17:35:41-08:00