Did ya see Flickr’s new UI? Some users rejoice, some blogs tout its updated design merits, and designer/developers like me run to see what they’ve done to bring it up to date. At first glance… It’s pretty. It’s full-screen, image-centric, responsive, and their catchy homepage incorporates some nice parallax movement (since I can never remember…
What is this term DPI (dots per inch), really? It’s a measure of how many dots will be printed per inch. Keyword: printed. DPI, contrary to many ideas around it, does absolutely nothing when it’s set in Photoshop for images that are displayed on the web. Take a hypothetical image of 100 x 100 pixels…
The short answer leans closer and closer to “bad” as the years move on. But I’ll explain…
From the perspective of a photographer and graphic designer, there are a number things to be said about HTML vs. Flash.
The Pros: dynamic aesthetics are under full control by the programmer (with HTML, you’re limited to static pages, for the most part).
The Cons: Google (or Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, etc.) doesn’t recognize anything inside Flash, it simply recognizes the Flash object itself. With HTML pages, Google will recognize all the jpegs and text, and index it that way.