“I’m in the early stage of planning a redesign of actsofvolition.com. Plans include a series of minor refinements and, most significantly, a move from ColdFusion to PHP for the programming. What I haven’t yet decided for the redesign, is what formatting standards to use. Should I stay with the tried and true HTML tables, or should I take the leap into the emerging world of Cascading Style Sheets? The purpose of this article is to seek feedback, suggestions, answers, and ultimately a better understanding of the state of web design practices in the face of emerging standards.”

“Making a character’s walk look realistic is a long-lost, and long-cherished, secret of animation. There’s no magic button to push, sadly, but the steps can be broken down into easily digestible bites that are easy to understand and recreate. And that’s just what this tutorial is going to show you how to do. In the pages that follow, I will show you how to build a simple walk cycle using an example character that I’ve kept fairly basic — with no detail or extreme style to distract you, applying the principles you learn here to your own designs later will be effortless.”

“Are there techniques that managers could learn that would help them make more objective — and better — decisions about marketing communications? We believe there are, but first we wanted to find out if decisionmaking was as arbitrary as we believed. We picked a real packaging design project: the launch of a new fruit beverage called Fruit Fix. We asked a number of experienced marketing practitioners, most of them middle or senior marketing managers and some experienced designers, to comment on the effectiveness of eight label concepts and select the best one. Was there an overwhelming consensus on which designs would be sure winners? No. There was little consensus.”

“Creative Public is a resource and information guide for today’s graphic designer: Designer search, forms, contracts, pricing guides… I developed this Web site dedicated to showing designers what to do and what not to do in the graphic design business. This site was created to give graphic designers resources for starting their own business or expanding into a freelance role without having to go through the headaches that I did.”

“The use (and misuse) of period typography in movies… Chocolat (2000, Mirimax) wasn’t a bad movie. It managed to get five Academy Award Nominations. But if they gave out Oscars for Best Type Direction, it would not have been among the nominees.”

“The use (and misuse) of period typography in movies… Chocolat (2000, Mirimax) wasn’t a bad movie. It managed to get five Academy Award Nominations. But if they gave out Oscars for Best Type Direction, it would not have been among the nominees.”

“I’m in the early stage of planning a redesign of actsofvolition.com. Plans include a series of minor refinements and, most significantly, a move from ColdFusion to PHP for the programming. What I haven’t yet decided for the redesign, is what formatting standards to use. Should I stay with the tried and true HTML tables, or should I take the leap into the emerging world of Cascading Style Sheets? The purpose of this article is to seek feedback, suggestions, answers, and ultimately a better understanding of the state of web design practices in the face of emerging standards.”