services
Designer & Developer Support
When other web suppliers tap us it’s usually for our ExpressionEngine chops.
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products
External SAEF (Free)
Insert a row into any MySQL database table using a form on an ExpressionEngine page.
Tied Entries (Free)
An ExpressionEngine plugin to access content entries further than a single relationship away.
Elsewhere
"Pika, a future without webpack.":https://www.pikapkg.com/blog/pika-web-a-future-without-webpack/ Looks good, back to sanity. While I'm greatly appreciative that the mass of work involved with compiling stuff gives us hot-loading on the client end and components on the dev end, hopefully the big process that makes that possible will be reduced.
"Mathieu Triay on his Marvin Visions":fhttps://www.readvisions.com/marvin, a reinterpretation of the 1969 font Marvin by Michael Chave.
I like it, I like it: "theorizing":https://blog.hichroma.com/the-crucial-tool-for-modern-frontend-engineers-fb849b06187a on "UI components":https://blog.hichroma.com/hidden-in-plain-site-the-levels-of-component-reuse-ee9b0d7b1bd2 by Dominic Nguyen.
"34 most popular GitHub JS repositories in March '19":https://dev.to/iriskatastic/34-most-popular-github-js-repositories-in-march19-4hkb by Iren Korkishko
Putting the ack! in acquihire: "Our Incredible Journey":https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/.
Jonathan Hoefler explores something that typeface designers have long known but that researchers have only now corroborated: "horizontal lines appear thicker than vertical ones":https://www.typography.com/blog/turning-type-sideways.
Important to consider: despite choice fatigue, "users do benefit from some symbolic choices":https://medium.com/s/story/the-ux-uncanny-valley-cf30df9fb45a, this piece argues.
Note to self: Eric Elliott's article entitled "12 Books Every JavaScript Developer Should Read":https://medium.com/javascript-scene/12-books-every-javascript-developer-should-read-9da76157fb3.
"itshello.co":https://itshello.co/ — clientless, open-source video chat in the browser.
Processes
Architecture
Before building your site or system, plans are required for both the back and front ends.
Design
It’s the competing considerations themselves that coalesce to form the design.
Installation & configuration
As well as smarts, what really makes a successful implementation likely is experience.
N
ow that the site’s wireframes have been generated during the architecture process, we turn them into mock-ups using visual elements such as a logo and an icon set; visual conventions such as a color scheme and a typeface collection; and visual rules such as a grid layout. Design appears in Jesse James Garrett’s useful Elements of User Experience diagram as the top level, labelled Visual Design.
As well as these elements, conventions and rules, the design must take into account a number of considerations that may initially appear to conflict until, with work, the tensions among them coalesce to actually form the design.
Dieter Rams, renowned industrial designer, has 10 Principles of Good Design.
Good design:
- is innovative
- makes a product useful
- is aesthetic
- helps us to understand a product
- is unobtrusive
- is honest
- is long-lasting
- is consequent to the last detail
- is concerned with the environment
- is as little design as possible.
The entire process, with dependencies
