Every now and again you see a new effect or bit of javascript on a website that makes you go OMG! or if your not a teenage girl you just say wow, today I saw just such an effect. vimeo have updated there site to include a really simple but stunning little bit of background animation. Head over to the vimeo site and scroll down to see what I’m talking about. Now we just have to wait for a jQuery demo to hit the net then we can add all sorts of floating backgrounds to our websites. I think we’re going to be seeing a lot more of this in the future.

Every now and again you see a new effect or bit of javascript on a website that makes you go OMG! or if your not a teenage girl you just say wow, today I saw just such an effect. vimeo have updated there site to include a really simple but stunning little bit of background animation. Head over to the vimeo site and scroll down to see what I’m talking about.

Now we just have to wait for a jQuery demo to hit the net then we can add all sorts of floating backgrounds to our websites. I think we’re going to be seeing a lot more of this in the future.

Is the fold really dead?

This post by Sam Brown on Twitter earlier today got me thinking. Sure it’s easy to say “There is no fold” but could modern browsers help the fold make a come back? (shiver)

A lot of modern browsers seem to be adding a feature where users can see a snapshot of selected websites upon opening there browsers. Safari call it top sites, Opera Speed Dial and google Most visited. This new feature is great for quickly scanning websites to see if they have been updated but they reintroduce the fold, only showing the top area of the page without a scroll bar. If the big players in the browser market Internet Explorer and FireFox introduce such a feature maybe the fold could rise from the dead?

There seems to be a new web design book released every week but now there is finally one worth getting excited about. Mark Boulton’s ‘A Practical Guide To Designing For The Web’ is available as a downloadable PDF from today. Although I haven’t read the book, Mark’s previous series of articles ‘Five Simple Steps to Better Typography’ opened my eyes to the beauty of good typesetting and typography. The new book goes on to cover other basic principles of graphic design such as colour theory and layout. It should be a good read.

There seems to be a new web design book released every week but now there is finally one worth getting excited about. Mark Boulton’s ‘A Practical Guide To Designing For The Web’ is available as a downloadable PDF from today.

Although I haven’t read the book, Mark’s previous series of articles ‘Five Simple Steps to Better Typography’ opened my eyes to the beauty of good typesetting and typography. The new book goes on to cover other basic principles of graphic design such as colour theory and layout. It should be a good read.