May 06
60 comments 2008 at 01.25 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
Recently my mailbox seems to contain a few messages of people mailing me about Flash. Many readers will likely assume that I have a natural distaste for anything Flash related. It’s not because I prefer HTML/CSS that I don’t like it or hate it as some people do. Flash/Flex have their place. With that out of the way let’s continue…
Nov 21
29 comments 2006 at 08.44 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
Defining the colors you will use can always be daunting, it’s sometimes hard to find perfect complementary colors. There are a lot of web-hosted applications out there that can help you with that. If you want an overview of some of the better ones you can find it on my link page. A new kid on the block is “Kuler” from power house Adobe.
Nov 13
19 comments 2006 at 01.41 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
I’m just starting to settle in in our new place and the next exciting adventure already comes knocking at my doorstep. One of the countries that has always been on my to-go list is Canada, the world’s second biggest country with its 24 thousand kilometers coastline. Its great nature is one of the reasons I want to visit it. Now I have another, it’s called “Web directions North”.
Sep 11
42 comments 2006 at 01.45 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
Let’s do something boldly and step into the duoh.com time-machine. I’ve searched our archives and found some interesting material. I’ve first started to make my feet wet in the Internet world back in 1996. We didn’t even have a domain name back then. First a bit of history on how I discovered the magical powers of the Interweb :)
Sep 06
17 comments 2006 at 10.45 am posted by Veerle Pieters
This isn’t a job board here but I’m helping out a friend and maybe along the way a reader to a new job. AOL is looking for some talented designers to help shape the AOL.com portal page. If you ever thought this could be better well here’s your chance ;) These jobs are both in the United States.
Aug 29
64 comments 2006 at 09.39 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
Yesterday Andrei Herasimchuck of Design by Fire wrote an open letter to Adobe with regard to typography on the web. The idea was since Adobe is a license holder of several classic typefaces to motivate them to release some of these into the public domain. Andrei suggested eight to twelve core fonts. Of course this would mean that Adobe loses some revenue but I also think that it wouldn’t have a significant impact on Adobe’s bottom line.
Jul 03
21 comments 2006 at 01.45 am posted by Veerle Pieters
Some of you asked for an Expression Engine tutorial a while ago and I thought today would be a good moment to explain how I implemented the comment boxes on my site. There is a lot to talk about so lets move ahead and get on to it…
Apr 14
43 comments 2006 at 07.00 am posted by Veerle Pieters
Some of you might be interested in how the Flickr pictures are implemented on my blog. I use the HTML version of the Flickr badge. After completing the 5 steps you’ll get the code that you’ll need to implement in your site. As we like to keep things clean and W3C valid, we need to do some ‘house cleaning’ first. The styles that Flickr provide are of no use to me so I throw them out and we’ll control everything in our own (external) stylesheet…
Mar 13
14 comments 2006 at 12.10 am posted by Veerle Pieters
It’s weekend here in Austin and today is the first official day of SXSW. I’m finally starting to adjust to the time deference with Belgium. Our trip over here was so exhausting. We started with a 9 hour flight to Chicago followed by a 3 hour flight to Austin. To be honest I was kinda forgotten how hard it is. Times have definitely changed since my last trip to the US. I can’t remember exactly how many security points we have past but a lot, including one where you need to take your shoes off, laptop out of the bag etc. Understandable but still after being stuck on a plain for 9 hours a friendly talk or gesture could do wonders ;) Our trip was like 24 hours in total and we literary crashed at the hotel and went to bed at 9pm. At 3am we all woke up and after that we counted the hours on the clock ;)
Feb 09
4 comments 2006 at 04.05 am posted by Veerle Pieters
I am working on a redesign for for several touristic regio sites here in Belgium. If you think of vacation, you want to see pictures and when I start designing stuff, I want my files to be as big as possible to have all my options open. That’s when e-mailing large files comes into play. You know, we have an Xserve and an FTP account for clients but not all of them are happy or technology minded to use it. You probably have been there too, some of them would even mail 100MB if it would be possible :o)
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