In reference to Apple, Time.com wrote the following truth:
Unlike most competitors, Apple also places an inordinate emphasis on interface design. It sweats the cosmetic details that don’t seem very important until you really sweat them. “I actually have a photographer’s loupe that I use to look to make sure every pixel is right,” says Scott Forstall, Apple’s vice-president of Platform Experience (whatever that is). “We will argue over literally a single pixel.” As a result, when you swipe your finger across the screen to unlock the iPhone, you’re not just accessing a system of nested menus, you’re entering a tiny universe, where data exist as bouncy, gemlike, animated objects that behave according to consistent rules of virtual physics. Because there’s no intermediary input device—like a mouse or a keyboard—there’s a powerful illusion that you’re physically handling data with your fingers. You can pinch an image with two fingers and make it smaller.
…What does that mean for Graphic Design, and a Web Application??? Attention to detail matters!
Wondering how to get a nice url such as
http://www.farmsoftstudios.com/tools/ajax/tutorials.html
to run a query for you? Here’s how to get this url: http://www.farmsoftstudios.com/tools.php?type=ajax&style=tutorials to the url listed above. You’ll need a .htaccess file in the directory that you are working from. Create that, and then add these lines:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /your/sub-directories/if/any
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule tools/(.*)/(.*)\.html$ tools.php?type=$1&style=$2
To dissect that, first, you are calling an apache directive called RewriteRule. That tells apache that you want this url rewritten. Then you list the structure that you want created. In our case, that is tools/ (which is static) and then the query’s “variables.” What I mean by that is when I type
http://www.farmsoftstudios.com/tools/ajax/examples.html
into the address bar, it creates a new query with &style=example instead of tutorials. Pretty slick, eh?
…And the winner is: Arnaud Didry
I totally rewrote the contact form, making it a completely table-less design. The form validation still works, and the code is a whole lot cleaner now.
Go ahead and try it out!
Just updated the theme of my portfolio today. I added ‘LightBox’ support in there, which hopefully speeds up the loading time.