I was recently asked to knock-up a semantically simple (but elegant) navigation bar for a new open-source project I’ve become involved with (more on that soon!). Having done so with a reasonable amount of success, I thought I would also share it here for everyone else to use as well!
Having searched around for a while, looking for a set of CSS3 ‘buttons’ and not finding anything exactly right for my needs, I decided to create a set from scratch. Being the generous kind of bloke I am, I though that I’d share them here in case any other frustrated web workers are in desperate need of a button fix.
Getting the most out of that first client meeting is incredibly important. Finding and isolating the core issues quickly can mean a final product that meets and exceeds all of a clients expectations. In this post, I have included a great primer of a client questionnaire; covering lots of ground around the logistical and creative direction a project should take.
This is another quick implementation of one of Orman Clark’s designs from Premium Pixels. As with the last previous slider I shared, this is based on malsup’s awesome Cycle jQuery plugin.
Inspired by having a little free time, and the fun I had doing it yesterday; here is another implementation of one of Orman Clark’s designs, his ‘Clean and Simple Navigation Menu’. As you will see however, I made a couple of small changes: most noticeably to the font (due to browsers not rendering Helvetica Neue Bold nearly as well as Photoshop); and removing a couple drop shadows (just because I thought it looked a little better this way).