As promised here is the link to download the syllabus for my Web Design I class at the University of the Arts.

You can download the Syllabus here.

Welcome to the new site all!

This has been a long time coming and as a designer I must say, the hardest design to do, is for yourself. Although I am sure I will get compliments on the new look and feel, I believe I will never be happy with what it all looks like. I am a perfectionist, what can I say?

The site has taken a similar look to the former jbiljr.com site that is now defunct. Johnny Nines is now the place to find my personal blog and designs on the web. i am following up the launch of this site with the launch of JohnnyBackgrounds, which will be coming by end of next week. JohnnyBackgrounds will be the new home of Wallpaper Wednesday and other tasty goodies I have whipped up.

There are a ton of bugs to iron out on JohnnyNines.com but the …

Now that the web is evolving into a more application driven, social platform; interface and information design is more of a factor than it ever was before. As designers we have a responsibility to help our developer counterparts translate their web apps into concisely designed GUI’s that allow the user to interact with a site in the most efficient way possible.

To achieve this, web designers must be able to at least understand the ins and outs of CSS/XHTML and understand the basics of most web development languages like PHP and Ruby. The days of passing off a sliced up Photoshop file are far behind, we now need to consider typography, information structure and usability in web design. These items cannot be addressed with just a pretty Photoshop file; they must be addressed within the code, as we work side by side with a developer.

Understanding the language and …

So instead of going back out and making sweet love to a few pints of Guinness, I decided to take a little stroll in the Vector Park!

The site is a creative use of various Flash animations and algorithms that create an artistic world of interaction. There are three sections of the park each with its own interactive environments, and quips. The second section kept me occupied for at least 45 minutes!

Although it seems like some of the interactions are over, there is much more to them, so do not be so quick to move on if one of them seems boring.

This one is definitely in the bookmarks and may just become one of my regular walks in the Park!

In a recent thread on the Independents Hall list-srv, David Speers asked us all to list our favorite daily blogs. This spawned a fascinating set of child threads that lead me to sites I have never been to before. As I finished up my list I figured it would be good to augment the items and write a post of my most used and abused web resources for design.

The following is a list of those resources that I cannot do with out. Hope you find it useful.