Consider me low hanging fruit for a design makeover. Unstyled forms look crap. For years tools like Dreamweaver have included CSS to make them look nicer. Where can I find some nice form CSS? GUI programmers get a set look from their toolkits. I want some to choose from for my web apps.
I used to put forms in a table, right justify the labels and left justify the input fields. How do I get them all aligned using divs and CSS niceness? Programmers can all learn to at least make better wireframes, use spacing, font sizing, alignment, etc. I'd love to improve the defaults I use. - Mike On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Adam Meehan <adam.mee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Its a really basic design that passes is not what most people really. > As for what we do want > the reply question is but its nearly impossible to answer. The reply > question would be, how > do I make a site that is usable and beautiful? > > The problem is design instinct. Some people have it, some don't. Many > developers don't, myself > included, and they want to learn to *emulate* it. As I don't think its > possible to learn instinct. > That said, I imagine their are many good designers out there who don't > have classical design > instinct, but learned and trained off others work. Ultimately there is > a scale of design ability > and we all for along it somewhere. > > Its difficult to nominate a specific design problem worth work- > shopping. If you can find a specific > problem you want to solve then its likely technical and hence just > needs technical instruction, > different from design. > > I think those in need of help would like to just observe a good > designer doin their thang, and we > can extract the techniques and patterns and add them to our pallete of > learned design tips. Then > later apply with variation to our own problems. Like a makeover in > QEFTSG, we want to watch > rather than dobbing ourselves in for the makeover. > > Its also not to say we don't know when we see something we like, but I > think most of us would like to > stop drawing so heavily on existing design and make sites which are > more individual and appropriate > for the problem being solved by the site we are making. > > The argument against all this is, let designers design and coders > code. But the stubborn polymath > (or desire to be one) in most geeks refuses to give up. Plus tips are > useful for low budget projects > or solo developers not looking to spend on designers. > > And no I won't be submitting my site for a makeover because I am a > coward. > > Adam > > On Feb 3, 11:49 pm, Brodaigh <broda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> To quote someone from the meta-discussion, "I would be interested in seeing >> a "design eye for the developer guy" type of session." >> >> I'm just wondering.. I'm interested in- what are the main design problems >> non-designy people are experiencing? >> >> I myself am a designy-type, which gives me my own set of problems. One of >> which is, I'm trying really hard to improve, everything, all the time! Plus >> a few little quirky,* verging on a mental disorder *things. >> >> Like, if CSS totally gripes you?? I want to know why. This is your >> opportunity to get it off your chest and go vent! Sort of a bitch-session if >> you will. >> Open the flood gates! >> >> What's stopping you from making a really basic design that also passes' for >> your app? >> >> -Brodaigh > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
