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International Jugglers Association was in next room to Webvisions 2006 color, typography, iconography, microformats, flexibility start by keeping one object in the air, then two, then.... special announcement: has a new site, toupeepal.com (Wig 2.0) color color is emotional - becomes a problem when working with clients "I hate that green. It reminds me of my ex-girlfriend's quilt." clients say "more wow", like it's a Photoshop option interesting idea: choosing colors picked from nature photos - B&A article by Luke W. can use pixilate function in Photoshop to find major colors in photo (picture of Trump, founder of toupeepal....) Flickr group "Two colors or less" Drawn! illustration blog interview with Art Lozzi blend background colors so are harmonious, not competing with each other or foreground 31Three pulls dark blue menu color down into background of main part of page grain texture in background - add noise filter in Photoshop, monochromatic, reduce opacity reuse colors from palette (fourish colors) to unify page open color picker and reduce/increase saturation link color carries weight - on a link-heavy page, that color is important typography don't need many fonts, just need to use them well AIGA uses Georgia and Verdana - italics, letter-spacing, etc. Georgia responds well to all-uppercase with letter-spacing Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style "In heads and titles, use the best available ampersand." often want the italic version <span class="amp">&</span> webtypography.net transforms guidelines from book to web examples make sure fonts in graphics also harmonize can get on mailing lists for type foundries veer.com will send you cool stuff myfonts.com has a great email newsletter - interviews with type designers, history, etc favicons - the most important design element of any site! well, important, anyway. feeds, bookmarks, Subtraction's footer, tanyamerone.com same, cellphone really easy to make or really difficult scale down logo if possible, choose fragment of logo, or do something totally different maybe pick part of brand that isn't the logo toupeepal can just shrink logo. various examples in slides. or can use avatar of you (eep), which is apparently popular Flickr uses its branding but not its logo create in Photoshop, paste into Iconographer Delta Tango Bravo has a great collection of favicons Smashing Magazine has another add detail without adding complexity dropshadow can just be 2px repeating image across bottom of box suggest the box - background fade, round one corner only, gradient fade of one corner reuse themes, colors, graphics so e.g. backgrounds tie things together microformats way to make data available for someone's future application takes the guesswork out of how to mark up a particular piece of content http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator SimpleBits's contact page has Download vCard link SPARQL - can query for only reviews by buddies (XFN) Scrugy is a wine review site - scrape wine reviews including from Cork'd "accidental API" - Brian Oberkirch Drew McLellan presentation, Can your website be your API? get greater results by using many microformats together microformats.org bulletproof content in slides turn images off style alt text so it doesn't look awful - and isn't black on black turn CSS off increase font size validate has he met Gary - purchases of Cork'd - and is he as crazy as on his videos? no and yes (phone). future plans for toupeepal, will he cater to the bald by choice community? hope to be acquired by someone like Google. are talking to Trump about funding. how do you design a decent-looking website around a bad existing logo? try to de-emphasize logo; those are the projects you don't talk much about with color, find the colors that are OK and focus on them with emotional reactions to colors, how do you prevent yourself from being the shrink? it's hard. change slightly, etc. important part is whether works for design. if client doesn't want to go into code view to do microformats, how can you convince them? depending on the CMS, might not have the ability to add markup put microformats into the templates; snippets for CMSs that support that interesting to have a microformats zen garden? yes, start building. there are content types that seem microformattable that don't fit the current ones create a format, use it, get others to use it, join mailing list and process. resolution designs for? bigger than 800x600 is fine now why does your octopus have ten legs? it's a decapus.
