Web Design/Development

I've always wanted to throw the topic of web design out there and get to know some other hardcore web designers. I'm pretty sure this is a good place for the topic.

How many of you are active web designers? For me, its one of my favorite passtimes next to drawing. I'd love to see some other people's concept sites and share ideas.

Some sites I've worked on:
http://www.designdraft.net/ <-- personal blog
http://www.ani-6.com/ <-- old old idea for a site
http://www.ani-6.com/blueos <-- my CDS site
http://www.ani-6.com/lagdemo <-- my club's site (Working)
http://www.ani-6.com/concept <-- a revision of ani-6.com I'm working on

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Ulysses

Curious about the movable window in your "Studio lag" website. I'm wondering how you managed to keep the cursor locked onto the same place on the window while dragging. I mean very rapid dragging back and forth, not normal movements. I programmed something similar from scratch many years ago but didn't get around to fixing the problem where if you dragged the window off the visible part of the screen, the cursor would get confused.

I used a Prototype library specifically designed for a window system. Its pretty much AJAX and Javascript at its best. I'm not the best at Javascript yet, so I can't explain how it works, but I can give you a link to the library's site.

Originally Posted by MeTaL_oRgY

Oh, and Ultima, could you share the font you used at this logo?

I don't know the name off hand, but I'll definitely get it to you in the next couple of days when I open up Photoshop or Illustrator again.

Originally Posted by Hello_Kitty

hi ultima

i personally like what you have done with designdraft, but the "more or less" is still blurry

Thanks a lot, I think its blurry because its so thin. I'm going to do a revision to the renovatio theme in a month or two, so I'll probably look into that then. It won't be a completely different theme, but something more complete and true to my original vision. When I come up with a mockup of the updated theme I'll post it. Its a lot better than it is now, in my opinion!

I love everyone's sites by the way. The four of us that have posted here have pretty much different styles in approaches, and thats pretty refreshing. Although I think metalorgy and I have pretty similar tastes with the whole Web 2.0 thing going on.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Erisu Kimu

I'm only three and a half months away from graduating with my Web Design diploma. The more I think about it though, the more I just don't want to do this as my main long-term career. It's something I'd rather do as a side freelance job.

Right now, I'm trying to figure out how to work fluidly with Macromedia Director in order to make a portfolio of my web sites. I'm having a hard time though, since I'm practically new to the program.

Is a diploma in web design that annoying? I was considering going to school for web design but I couldn't find any schools for it. A lot of the schools I applied to have things like graphic design and digital media in which you can take web design courses, but no specific major that is specified as web design.

Leaning more towards Illustration or Graphic Design though.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Flash works on websites, but only in extremely rare cases where the person has a very clear idea of what they want and how to accomplish it. Mainly, only professional websites and portfolios really have decent web designs using Flash. And I'm not talking intros, the whole site has to be made with it. I'll post examples later.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Erisu Kimu

I think this site has some cool stuff.

http://veerle.duoh.com/index.php

Veerle's blog is great. I found it earlier this year in a web design magazine I was browsing through. I think he uses ExpressionEngine or something for his blog.

I was speaking idiomatically.