Web Designer Wall Top 50
Dec 5, 2008 Creative, Web Development
I love Web Designer Wall; it is a great place to see some good site design.
Today they released the Best of CSS Design 2008. It contains some amazing sites. I spent a good bit going through them and bookmarking a lot for future reference.
Interestingly enough they also picked a site that was recently released by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church). The site is specifically designed to focus on the life and ministry of the Savior, Jesus Christ. Being LDS myself I did a bit of a double take when I saw it. Something like worlds colliding, but congratulations to whoever designed it. Looks good.
Tags: Web Design
Side Scrolling – Done Right
Oct 8, 2008 Web Development
We all know that side scrolling is evil, right? Well you do now. Never ever ever make a side that requires a user to scroll sideways. Except when you do it correctly.
The reason side scrolling is so annoying (if you don’t already know) is that it requires the user to use the bottom scroll bar if they don’t have a mighty mouse or something similar. The default mouse scroll wheel just doesn’t travel left to right. Thankfully most side scrollers have been weeded out by natural selection, but lately I have seen a few portfolio type websites start to allow the side scrolling back like an illness that returns because you didn’t take all of your antibiotics like you were told.
However I have found one great example of how to do the side scrolling correctly. Thanks to some nifty coding (check the source, I won’t ruin it for you), the Eric Ryan Anderson Photography (ericryananderson.com) website let’s you scroll left to right using the vertical scroll wheel. To top it off there is also a nice return to the beginning function with a smooth animation. All in all a good site and great example of the exception to the rule.
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