Thurs, 28th October 2010 (arrive from 7.15pm for a 7.45pm start).
@The Skiff, 6 Gloucester Street, Brighton, BN1 4EW. (map)
Add yourself to the event on Upcoming
Add yourself on Lanyrd
In this session, Jeremy Keith will talk about designing for the web, examining what makes the web its own medium and how it differs from print, for example.
We’ll cast an eye over the tools and processes that we currently use for designing websites and demonstrate where they are problematic. Then we’ll turn to the tools of our trade: HTML, CSS and JavaScript and focus specifically on the presentation layer: CSS.
With the addition of CSS media queries to our arsenal of tools, it’s finally becoming possible to design experiences that are truly native to the web rather than creating pages that are optimised only for a specific screen size.
Jeremy is a web developer at Clearleft. He’s written a few books, most recently HTML5 For Web Designers. He plays bouzouki in the band Salter Cane and writes on his website, adactio.com.
This was an awesome session and well worth the train journey down from London.
I expected Keith to take the Andy Clarke line of designing in the browser, but took a holistic view of the problems/opportunities that face web designers in both small lightweight text heavy sites as well as the large corporate sites that can not always afford you the freedom of ignoring IE.
Excellent talk, great follow up questions and review of the gotcha’s involved in Responsive Design, cheers for organising.