Sixfoot Studio

A chat about art, design, computers and education with Milton Glaser

Sixfoot — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:50:24 +0000

Q&A with Milton Glaser from Jad Limcaco on Vimeo.

Web Fonts

Sixfoot — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:02:50 +0000

Web safe fonts are boring but thankfully, Google has a list of fonts that you can use through their API to add new fonts to your design.

http://code.google.com/webfonts/

Here’s an example of how to add a font to your page

1. Add a stylesheet link to request the desired web font(s):

2. Style an element with the requested web font, either in a stylesheet:
CSS selector { font-family: 'Font Name', serif; }

FLA corrupts when opening from a server

Sixfoot — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:40:56 +0000

The Bug:
You open an FLA file across a network server. For whatever reason the the connection between the server and your machine is lost. As soon as you try and save the file, it does not allow you to save the file. As soon as you close the FLA file and open it up again, the file does not open because it is corrupt.

Solution:
Two solutions if you are going to use FLA’s across the network.

When you open the FLA, save it immediately as a new version such as Home_v2.fla and work on that file. Do this whenever you open the the fla so that you always have a latest copy of the file.
If you lose network connection. Do not close the file. Rather try and Save As a different file name on your desktop. If all else fails. Copy all the frames in your FLA and start a new FLA document, paste the frames in that file and then Save As a new file on the desktop before moving it over to the server again.

Any other solutions? Comment and leave your suggestion.

Wireframe tools for web design layout

Sixfoot — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:55:27 +0000

The purpose of wireframing is to allow you to quickly layout a website before you even touch your web design application such as Photoshop. This is useful when you and your client sit together and finalise the site layout and they can then approve it the structure.

Here are some useful tools to help you with your wireframing.

http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil
http://www.foreui.com
http://cacoo.com
http://www.axure.com/tourOverview.aspx

Not my first WordPress installation but first for Sixfoot Studio

Sixfoot — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:10:45 +0000

This is to become the new home of Sixfoot Studio. I’ve decided that although I really love Flash, it does nothing for my Google rankings at this stage and since I enjoy writing from time to time, I will take it upon myself to write something either work related or personal on my site.