Scribble Designs: Web Design in Northern Ireland.

Redesigning My Personal Blog

Something I’ll be putting on the portfolio here soon – a redesign of my personal blog. This is a redesign of the blog, which runs on Drupal 6 and features a blog and photo galleries. It’s not the first Drupal-based theme I’ve ever created, but certainly the one I’m happiest with.

Posted in Announcements, Web Design & Standards on Wednesday, April 23 2008 | Comments Off

Styling Drupal Buttons For Usability

I came across this very interesting article by urlgreyhot on how to style the default Drupal buttons for that they provide some visual cues as to which buttons are most important. In most of the standard Drupal themes, the Preview, Publish and Delete buttons are styled in the same way, which gives equal visual weight [...]

Posted in Drupal, Web Design & Standards on Tuesday, February 20 2007 | 2 Comments »

How Semantic XHTML And CSS Can Benefit Your Website

Mani Sheriar has written an interesting post on the Vitamin website about her experiences with XHTML and CSS web design. Though Mani touches upon the basic benefits of streamlined CSS/XHTML design, like improved accessibility, page loading and search engine friendliness, she focuses mostly on the long-term benefits of the Standards-based approach. How easy is it [...]

Posted in Web Design & Standards on Saturday, January 6 2007 | Comments Off

Cameron Moll – Griding The 960

Cameron Moll recently redesigned his website to a width compatible with a 1024 x 768 pixel screens. I’ve started to become convinced that this is the way to go, as 800 x 600 resolution monitors slide even further into obscurity. Anyway, Cameron recently posted some useful grid images that you can use in CSS design [...]

Posted in Web Design & Standards on Tuesday, December 19 2006 | Comments Off