Last Week in Web Design…
Wow. What a week for us web geeks. And Steve Jobs.
So the major news of the week has to be the release of the 3G iPhone. Despite the fact that programming for handsets and programming for the web are digital oceans apart, many users will be accessing the sites you so painstakingly craft pixel by pixel on the iPhone’s 480×320 pixel screen and built-in browser. Whether this means creating a mobi stylesheet or alienating the “uber-cool” users whouse the iPhone, you will be affected by this. Arrington has some great commentary on the release of the 3G phones. Oh yeah, and the 2.0 operating system has already been cracked.
What, Steve? You think you can keep nerds from getting what they want? You can’t. Nobody can.
Organize this!
I know it seems as though the web is being overpopulated with free and amazing web applications that assist our digital lives in every concievable way. ZoHo and Basecamp are of course the darlings of the genre, but a new app called Wridea looks very intriguing in its ease of use, shareability and wicked good looks. Could be useful for design/development ideas or say, bloggers who like to write about this kind of thing! I signed myself up, and it looks rather sweet. The biggest challenge I see is that, well, ZoHo and Basecamp already do what this extremely well. We’ll see…
- Garrett Gladden is a specialist in graphic and web design. An expert in digital Kung-Fu, nothing makes him more excited than open source platforms. Yes. He is that nerdy. Read more from this author