Web Design: CSS Caveats #1

The most bothersome aspects of CSS are, Positioning, Margins and Padding, and Float. All these tools are a god send and a hell send. Then Internet Explorer does not help. If you stay with it and dont let it get ahold of you and do some research, CSS is your best friend. Unless you strictly want to use tabel for your web layout. The times are changing and CSS is still developing. Its the web browsers that need standardizing. I plan to unleashing my anger of my dealings of CSS's problems here and please respond. thank you

Linux: Ubuntu Linux #1

I have used Mandrika, Fedora Core, and Ubuntu and out of the three, I found that ubuntu is really nice. This based on first boot after the installation. The installation of both Mandrika and Fedora Core were more visualy pleasing. Ubuntu has an online update after the install before the reboot. A very nice feature. Ubuntu seems more laptop friendly as well, especially with the wireless. Mandrika failed and Fedora Core miserably.

Web Design: Interface #1

We all should know that the homepage of a website should have simple common attributes.
First being the header that is clear and understandable the fits in with the user tendencies. The footer is also important because you must include the things that do not in the header. You must also include some redundancy from the header for specific items not necessarily all the items. The body must address the important items for the viewer, the body is self explanitory. Here some examples of nicely contructed websites.
Apple
Google
Artistshare
This info has been taught to me by CEO of ArtistShare.com thank you Brian Camelio

The Role of the Icon

The Icon plays such an important role in the user interface of operating systems today. We see many things on the screen of our computer, Mac or PC. What helps make task execution simple to the normal a person? The Icon's placement and organizational correspondence plays a large role for task execution. Programs, folders and other information accessible to the user should be easy to access and readily available with the least amount of step. Mac OS X has an interesting layout that seems to be the simplest in my opinion. Although Windows XP has a standard on the market in terms of the design of a layout for a user interface. It has allowed Windows users to become stuck in how Windows works. This has influenced the main graphical-user interfaces on linux plaforms (Gnome and KDE). The Mac OS X operating system has a reach out and grab me approach to icons and application usage, Only having what is needed visible. No obtrusive window not allowing you interact with other applications. Its like if you could touch each icon or object with your finger on the screen. That technology is all ready available but on the standard level of home computer and user interface design, we are not there yet. Windows has has a lot of catching up to do because the reach out and grab/touch theory is the future. Visual effects on icons and icon based objects and bars also allow us to see where something is going and to easily navigate through. Gnome, used on Linux platforms, has a lot of catching up to do as well. I feel it is far behind on the user interface design front. The power linux is undeniable, but the user interface options needs some work. The K Desktop Environment (KDE), at its current state seems to be on to something visually. The problem with KDE is over the consistantcy of menus. Gnome and KDE both have the use of over cluttering of menus. Granted all the operating system I have stated above have drop menus. My question is, when will menus packed with words be completely removed. When will we be able to have text as a part of an operating system on our own request?

User Interface: Longhorn #1, Is it really going to be all that different?

I am currently downloading Longhorn build 4074 to see what the hype is all about. I know it is not finished and far from release. Just looking at screenshots of what Longhorn makes me say, "hm.. is it going to be different?" Yes Microsoft has to put something out everything 2½ years. Now they are late, which makes me wonder if they are really going to add some real stuff to Longhorn or are they only going to make a Windows Millennium mistake. I will be checking out "the way behind scheduled project" of Longhorn and you will here my report if it means anything to you.

User Interface: Mac OS X vs. Windows XP #1

Comparing and contrasting The Big Apple and Window Rock, AZ will not be easy. Is either of them better than one another? hm.. maybe and maybe not, but the fact is in each of these operating system lies the UI - user interface. Security and system uptime are not the issues at hand here. It is how we use the operating system in its fullness visually. How do we interact with the operating system interactively? Sounds redundant doesn't it? Yes sir! This redundant question is key for thought process of designing future interactives.

When I click on the start button I feel connected to a whole different world. The world of creativity and/or creation. When I click the apple or use the dock I feel a sense of approaching creativity.....

Now we all know that Apple's machine have always been easy to use and very simple. We all know that the UI of Macs has made them what they are today. Then why aren't they in supremacy. Microsoft doesnt make computers, they make, steal and develop software. Microsoft is very foturnate to be where they are now. If you were to put a Win XP machine next to a OS X Machine, The UI of OS X machine would win out our heart. It jus that those people at Apple have really sat down and thought long and hard about the UI. Button placement, menus and what have you. A standard install of OS X will give you this. Yes I can things around and why should not you. I have done it in windows. My start is on the top hmmm... i wonder why? A none rushed Operating System building process is need out of microsoft in order really come up with something a little more thorough. I love Win XP, and I love OS X.