UPDATE: Microsoft Expression Design is free now
Nineteen months ago I wrote how I felt that Expression Studio is a better design value than the comparable Adobe suite. This price disparity still exists more than a year an a half since I wrote it. On Amazon.com, owners of Photoshop can upgrade to CS4 Web Premium for just $1290. Owners of any Expression product can upgrade to Expression Studio 2 for $330.
more...Fresh off the attention I received for my Vine Type website, Microsoft now spotlights ... me.
more...Expression Design provides several great graphics effects, but one that is sorely missed by me is inner shadow, or inner glow. They're basically the same except inner shadow would be a black glow, I suppose.
I've been using a simple solution to simulate inner shadow by using two rectangle objects and a blur effect and I demonstrate this effect in the following video tutorial. Click on the photo below to view the tutorial.
more...In preparing for my own design work, I created an Expression Design template for myself based on the Blueprint CSS framework.
There are utilities to customize the Blueprint grid to any number of columns of any width, but I started with the default 24-column grid and created a starting template for my latest project.
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It's been said that nothing breeds success like success. That appears to be the case for me right now. The folks at the Microsoft Expression Studio website have taken a liking to my Vine Type redesign and are currently featuring it in their Expression Studio Gallery.
more...Prompted by a blog post by Khoi Vinh, I was introduced to a little site called CommandShift3 that pits website designs against each other. Having recently rebooted the Vine Type site, I thought I'd play along. Fast forward one month.
more...As someone who expressed recent interest in jumping into Flash development, the announcements and **demos at Mix07 have significantly altered my software purchasing outlook.
I cannot and will not comment on whether Silverlight is a Flash Killer but I can provide one data point and reasoning for my interest in Silverlight as well as my corresponding disinterest in Flash.
more...Hi, I'm Carl Camera. I'm a front-end web developer and designer.
I've been involved in web development since 1996 helping to launch some of the earliest web applications. Nowadays I oversee development of large websites that are viewed more than ten million times daily.
I think websites should be easy to understand and use. If a website is a source of frustration, it is both a user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) failure. This blog has been created to further the craft of web design and user interaction.
As screen resolutions become denser, websites face the challenge of filling pixels without wasting bandwidth.
What you're seeing here are two images specifically tailored both to the size of the slot they are to fill, and the pixel density of the screen in front of you. The dimensions of the images delivered are shown in the second slot. You can alter the image dimensions by resizing your desktop browser or by turning your phone or tablet sideways and refreshing the page.
All images of the photograph are generated from single full-resolution 7712×4352 pixel image – Two megabytes in size. Read more...
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