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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Vote 4 Me

My website is featured on 21 CSS Web Design galleries. This is HUGE! Please vote for me at;

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In addition, I have had over 1,300 hits in the past 3 days. Thank you everybody, much appreciated!

Thanks again,
Dan Olsavsky
Web Designer / Web Developer in Denver, Colorado

posted by dano at 10:11 AM 1 comments

Monday, February 23, 2009

Typography

Typography, implemented correctly, is one of the most important design elements on a website. This article reveals many of the modern techniques that are being used recurrently:

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/04/101-examples-of-text-treatments-on-the-web/

I am intrigued by the background shapes (#2) because occasionally I will have text that will blend in with a background. It frustrates the heck out of me when this happens, especially if the text is layered on top of an image. Often times I will add an outer glow or a stroke but that style is getting old and I can’t use CSS to replicate the effect. I specifically like the technique used by DesignPhunk. The text clearly stands out and is easy to read while the transparency effect is still preserved.

posted by dano at 3:01 PM 1 comments

Flash Tip

Many of you may know this already, but perhaps some don’t …so I thought I would share. When you are saving images out for Flash Development, I suggest not compressing or optimizing the images. Why you ask? Because Flash is compressing the photos when you render the .SWF. There is a very large degradation of quality when you compress the images in Photoshop and then again in Flash (i.e. you are compressing something that is already compressed, therefore causing mass pixelation).

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Dan Olsavsky
Web Designer / Web Developer in Denver, Colorado

posted by dano at 9:29 AM 0 comments

Friday, February 13, 2009

New Website

It's finally here! I just launched my new site this evening. Drop me a line and let me know what you think.

posted by dano at 1:44 AM 0 comments

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