Border Stylo's Making the Site

January 11th, 2010

It’s been just over a month now since we launched the latest redesign of borderstylo.com and to celebrate I am going to let you know a little about the design process behind it. When I say design, I don’t mean beautiful images and colors filling the page, instead I am referring to design as the organization of information and how the user interacts with this information.

When the average user interacts with a site they usually don’t pay attention to the design they are interacting with. They probably couldn’t tell you the difference between good and bad design outside the fact that they like one over the other. With that in mind, they probably have little understanding of what the design process is like, which is why I’m gonna share a little bit on the process I took with the borderstylo.com redesign.

YAJ: Yet Another Javascript?

October 12th, 2009

The exponential growth and popularization of “the internet” was helpfully fueled by a flawed ‘language’ – the HyperText Markup Language. HTML is a subset of SGML – the ‘Standard Generalized Markup Language’ standards for structuring and processing documents. HyperText are navigable references to other ‘text’ (images, video, tabular data, stock quotes, etc). We ‘click’ hypertext ‘links’ to navigate from website to website.