Web Design Blog Archive - March, 2007

Web design is coming to the desktop

Adobe Labs, which is the epicentre of Adobe’s “collaborative software development process” is host to Apollo. Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime designed to allow web designers and web developers with skills in Flash, XHTML, JavaScript to be able to easily create rich internet applications for the desktop using their existing skills.

Flash image replacement

sIFR or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement is a web design technique used on the Enovate Design website to provide the green headings at the top of each page. It’s an extremely useful technique in any web designer’s arsenal.

OpenID - a single digital identity

Anyone that uses the web a lot no doubt has a multitude of different usernames and passwords for different sites. Even if you try to use the same credentials across the board no doubt there will be exceptions when you want to choose something more secure or when your favoured username is already taken. It’s these multiple log-in credentials that are soon to be a thing of the past with the introduction of OpenID, which seems to be gathering momentum.