I am a padding addict. I love padding so much that if I turned into a pillow I would probably be happy.
No seriously. I consider margins and padding to be more critical than 960.gs or the 10px method. You can have the best grid based layout but if your padding / margins are out it will not look good.
I usually spend more time making sure that all my padding is correct than if my site fits perfectly within a grid. It facilitates relevant information, separation and more importantly, white space management.
Don’t like grids? Try our ten pixel method.
There may be a proper name for this somewhere out there and it may be commonly known. If so we apologize if this has been repeated.
Grids are making a comeback and are becoming quite common in the web world. If your site doesn’t follow a set structure in its layout it may seem disjointed and difficult to navigate, read or look at.
When I began my web design career I didn’t do any design work. It was all programming.
Since Marc and I were three years old we have been wearing helmets (who knows why……). Helmets fueled my passion for racing (I often wonder if my blood is in fact petrol) and even when I began racing at the age of 14 I made sure that, despite my shoddy suit and 2nd hand kart, I had to have the best looking helmet. Natrually I always used to dream of being able to design my own helmet.
For the introduction of this post I’ll replay a conversation between a client and ourselves here at OBOX HQ… It went something like this:
Set the scene, it’s just after redesign number five, we’re finalizing the site, and while navigating the now totally-unlike-version-one site the Client pipes up… “Do you not think that maybe clicking around the website is a bit tedious?”
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I shot this during the annual lady bug swarm here in the mountains above Boulder Colorado. Mostly meant to be a test to see how the 5D and EX1 footage would cut together. Just had the footage looked at by the good people at GW Hannaway on their ultra high end monitors and it seems, and I am told that, under the right circumstances and understanding the cameras internal codec issues, the footage holds up quite well!
