Ok… here is a little pop quiz today from the Eye of the St Louis web designer. Take a look at the picture below. Where in St louis would you find this fabulous burst of color?
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Every season brings a new palette of colors and when I sliced open a beautiful St Louis grown watermelon last night I was greeted by this explosion of color. It tasted as good as it looks!
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As weeks go if I compare last week with this week, they are like chalk and cheese.
This week has been a whirl wind of activity. I secured contracts for three new web sites, started design work on said sites, juggled all exisiting projects…currently numbering 13. I have jumped around from logo design to seo work to brochure design, web site population, web site design…
As a contrast last week was a week of complete relaxation on the Oregon coast…such a great place to go especially when it was 90+ deg. here in St Louis.
After this week I feel in need of another vacation already!
Pixel Perfect Coding
Two of my projects last week moved out of the design phase and into the coding phase.
It is during this phase that the non functional design created are sliced up and reconstructed into into fully functional web pages albeit void of content. Content population comes next.
During this intial coding phase our pages are tested, tested and tested again to ensure they perform well across all user platforms and browsers. In a perfect world all browsers would render a coded page exactly the same way …but this is not the case. Browsers can introduce gaps and spaces into a design. A web design which displays seemlessley when viewed with internet Explorer can have gaps and spaces when view with Firefox.
We employ a standard of pixel perfect coding …a design will display seemlessly whatever browser it is viewed on. We achieve this though the slicing logic used in cutting up our designs and careful coding with hacks where necessary.
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I took the afternoon off work yesterday and indulged myself in my garden.
For many, yard work is a chore, but for me dabbling in the garden is a good way to unwind from the rigors of being the St Louis web designer!
Here is a photo of a beautiful Lacecap Hyrangea just about to burst into flower. I have had this shrub for three years and this is the first it has produced any flowers.
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Fabulous purple flowers on a beautiful late spring day in St Louis
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How’s this for a birds eye view of a cardinal’s nest built right outside my kitchen window. The mother has been sitting on the nest for about a week now and get food visits from the dad to be…he feeds her baby style.
Last year we had a robin’s nest in the same place and it was fun to watch the babies being fed. I will post more pictures as these new St Louis cardinal babies hatch.
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Is it me or have we had a long winter this year? I am more than ready for spring.
Here is a little burst of fabulous designer spring color from my garden: evidence that winter is over. As a web & graphic designer color can be a great inspiration, I love the contrast of purple and green in this photograph.
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Yummy… How about this fabulous tray of profiteroles made by my 10 year old daughter, with a little assistance, for my recent birthday.
More than eye candy for the eye of the St Louis web designer!
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We were treated to a fabulous “spring like” day yesterday
but are plunged back to the depths of winter today. It will be a few more weeks before we see this sort of color in St Louis. This photograph was taken by my Mum, of a wonerful spring conatiner currently in bloom in her garden..in the UK.
