Title sucks as it has nothing to do with its content.
Starting with the design is for pussies too ... considering that a mostly static design is really different from the end-result and you won't see the problems with it until you've got real content, this after you've waisted hours and hours on bikeshed issues.
Doing contracting work for clients for whom you can't explain that the design they are seeing isn't final and that they should focus more on the actual workflow / functionality ... that's for pussies too :)
And speaking of real clients that want to click the kitty ... trust me, they won't appreciate your HTML5 compliant code, or a font that doesn't render well in WinXP.
If you're on Windows, sorry. Both Firefox and IE have terrible font rendering on that OS which basically munges the font. Try Safari (I've heard that's better). It would be nice if Typekit did fallback rendering for Windows only which basically just used Times New Roman and Helvetica. I, however, don't want to implement this because I suspect you are one of the first people to visit the site on Windows.
[+] [-] dhotson|16 years ago|reply
I think it's a great idea to design user interfaces before writing code. I find it really helpful for figuring out what actually needs to be done.
Also, sometimes I find that an idea that's easy to express in code is not always as easy to express in a user interface.
I have a feeling that this is why the majority of UI's designed by programmers suck.
[+] [-] bad_user|16 years ago|reply
Starting with the design is for pussies too ... considering that a mostly static design is really different from the end-result and you won't see the problems with it until you've got real content, this after you've waisted hours and hours on bikeshed issues.
Doing contracting work for clients for whom you can't explain that the design they are seeing isn't final and that they should focus more on the actual workflow / functionality ... that's for pussies too :)
And speaking of real clients that want to click the kitty ... trust me, they won't appreciate your HTML5 compliant code, or a font that doesn't render well in WinXP.
[+] [-] melito|16 years ago|reply
I can't try tyrone :(
Not sure where to submit bugs because the article tells me to use thor instead and that pixii isn't maintained.
[+] [-] chrislloyd|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Devilboy|16 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] dhotson|16 years ago|reply
It's using Typekit @font-face for good looking text, Perhaps that's the problem?
[+] [-] bruceboughton|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] rogermugs|16 years ago|reply