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Design 006: Local Newspaper

By kzurawel | Published: January 25, 2010
Two days after Design 005, here’s #006: a re-work of the Coral Gables Tribune, a free weekly newspaper distributed at retail stores in the area. The current site for the newspaper uses a Flash component to display the print version of the newspaper in exact page-by-page detail, including pages of ads. The Flash version of [...]
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Controlling Your Design on the Web, Part 1: Browser Grading

By kzurawel | Published: November 13, 2009
Designers generally like to have control over all aspects of a design – colors, layout, imagery, fonts, the list goes on and on. Part of what makes designing for the Web so frustrating, then, is that there is so little that the designer can directly control. There are an endless combination of browsers, browser versions, [...]
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Helping Your Users

By kzurawel | Published: November 11, 2009
Today is Veterans’ Day in the US, and as a result many government offices are closed. This includes the Miami-Dade Public Library System (MDPLS). All 47 library branches in the Miami area were closed today. Nonetheless, a line of people formed in front of the South Miami branch this afternoon at 12:30, the normal opening [...]
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