Re: [IxDA Discuss] changing images and color schemes on refresh

2008-09-26 Thread Scott Cobban
there or what they want to do? Scott On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Scott Cobban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a visitor arrives on one of the landing pages, leaves that landing page, but then returns to that same landing page (via Back button or site navigation), they'll see a page

[IxDA Discuss] changing images and color schemes on refresh

2008-09-25 Thread Scott Cobban
I'm designing a top-level product landing page for an e-commerce site. The design consists of a main banner image with marketing messaging spanning the full width of the page, with 4 content boxes aligned horizontally under the main banner image with equal spacing in between each so that they

[IxDA Discuss] Adobe's CS multi-product highlighting

2008-09-23 Thread Scott Cobban
It's my first time starting a discussion thread. I hope I get this right. I was visiting Adobe's website just now, checking out the newly released Creative Suite 4 offerings. On hovered over one of the Creative Suite names - http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite - displaying the full list

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Career tips for a high-schooler

2008-02-27 Thread Scott Cobban
When I started getting into HTML and CSS coding more seriously in 2006, I found various blogs to be extremely helpful. I know this isn't really groundbreaking advice, but it's great to be able to refer to those especially since the good ones are up to date. While the information that blogs

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Offtopic: What music do you listen to while youdesign

2008-02-26 Thread Scott Cobban
Great topic! It depends on my mood. I tend to go with familiar stuff (either with or without lyrics) when I need to hunker down. I do better if I can hum along in my head (I'm in an a cappella group, so singing to myself is calming). On recent try new music days, I've discovered: Rilo Kiley

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Adding Depth to Skills

2007-12-19 Thread Scott Cobban
I love all these suggestions. I clearly have a lot to read. However, a big question that I have is how easy are these books to get into? There are so many books out there that are extremely valuable, but they're very hard (for me) to get into and get through (thus making the concepts harder to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] When/Where/How did you decide to be a designer?

2007-12-18 Thread Scott Cobban
I come from a graphic design background and am trying to pickup more and more programming bits of knowledge. I don't yet hold any title with Interaction in it. I'm still a very broadly titled Web Designer at my work, but I love it. By process of elimination (being the sole web designer) and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Progress bar best practices

2007-11-26 Thread Scott Cobban
I'm new to the group and this is my first response so I hope I did it correctly. I prefer an accurate (or close-to-accurate) animation of the progress bar loading as opposed to a looping file moving animation. I may be biased because I'm not fooled into thinking that the looped animation is