Design Is Philosophy
Tuturials, thoughts, ideas and information about web design and digital media by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, designer, developer, digital media expert, information philosopher, speaker and author of the Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web in 24 Hours series (version 2, 3 and 4), Lynda.com's WordPress 3.0 Essential Training course and Microsoft Expression Web 4 LiveLessons and creative director of Pink & Yellow Media - a Vancouver based digital media company.
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Zufall is Live! First project using only Microsoft Expression Suite is on line
Jul. 30, 2007
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When I promised Microsoft I was going to use their new Expression Suite exclusively when designing my next project I wasn’t really sure what I was getting myself into. A colleague put it quite bluntly: “Are you a masochist?” I … Continue reading
Microsoft listens – and the future looks bright(er)
Jul. 27, 2007
I’ve been swamped trying to finish the Zufall project and the final project launch is only days away (Sunday to be exact) so I haven’t really had time to post my anything here in a while. But that’s going to … Continue reading
Color Picker / Dropper Issues Resolved, Kinda
Jul. 16, 2007
NOTE: I’m going to start saying Color Dropper instead of Color Picker. After the email I got from Dan at Microsoft I went back to retest the color dropper issue I found yesterday. Here are my results: Dan told me … Continue reading
Corrections, Corrections, Corrections (even a genious makes mistakes)
Jul. 16, 2007
Last week I posted an article where I complained about a few things in Expression Design. Some of my claims were questioned by Microsoft and I’ve found that on one count I was actually wrong (well, sort of wrong anyway). … Continue reading
Expression Web – CSS Heaven (sort of anyway)
Jul. 16, 2007
I’m using a style sheet (CSS) at the bottom of the Zufall site to make it easy for the owners to update once it’s done. I’ve used CSS in the past with varying degrees of luck / frustration due to … Continue reading
Color Picker Issues – Possible Explanations
Jul. 16, 2007
After my post on the color picker issue last night I got an email from Dan at Microsoft with a possible explanation: I have a couple of questions that might help narrow down the issue: – Are you using the … Continue reading
Color Picker Issues
Jul. 15, 2007
The color picker in Expression Design is so inaccurate it’s pretty much useless! Now that I got your attention let me explain: I was working on the Zufall project when I discovered that the colours of several of my elements … Continue reading
Expression Design follow up – Answering questions from Microsoft
Jul. 12, 2007
So I wake up this morning to discover that Microsoft has taken an interest in my blog (undoubtedly because I posted this blog on one of their forums). Anyway, they responded with some pointers, questions and disagreements. I realized that … Continue reading
Expression Design – Great vectors, annoying layers, terrible exports and more
Jul. 11, 2007
I don’t know if my way is the right way but when I design sites I always start with the design itself. In the past I’ve used a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia (now Adobe) Fireworks to do this … Continue reading