{"id":992,"date":"2008-12-09T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=992"},"modified":"2008-12-09T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:27:22","slug":"best-css-design-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/best-css-design-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Best CSS Design of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdesignerwall.com\/trends\/best-of-css-design-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-993\" title=\"bestweb2008\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/bestweb2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/bestweb2008.jpg 500w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/bestweb2008-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good list of fantastic sites over the past year.\u00a0 Sites like these focus on web-standards and CSS work, something which I&#8217;ve really dedicated the past couple of years trying to master. I&#8217;ll probably be a never ending journey.\u00a0 Nonetheless, some of the sites they&#8217;ve collected here are definitely exciting&#8230;I think there are some ideas here that will probably inspire some future work of my own.\u00a0 (via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdesignerwall.com\/trends\/best-of-css-design-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebDesignerWall<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>What I think we need to do more here in Hawaii in particular is to look outside of our own market.\u00a0 We&#8217;re so insulated here I&#8217;ve noticed we all gleam into one design or marketing trend until it&#8217;s overplayed itself.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not just the designer&#8217;s fault&#8230;we want to push the envelope like this, but that&#8217;s hard to do when 3 out of 5 people we meet say, &#8220;<em>I want a simple site that looks just like this&#8230;.[insert generic boring website design here]<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve concluded that experienced designers are not just good at design, they&#8217;re good at convincing their customers to take chances.\u00a0 Suddenly why do I have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SuB8xWeA59I\" target=\"_blank\">ABBA song<\/a> stuck in my head?\u00a0 &#8220;Take a chance chance&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good list of fantastic sites over the past year.\u00a0 Sites like these focus on web-standards and CSS work, something which I&#8217;ve really dedicated the past couple of years trying to master. I&#8217;ll probably be a never ending journey.\u00a0 Nonetheless, some of the sites they&#8217;ve collected here are definitely exciting&#8230;I think there are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[74,346,26],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webdesign","tag-design-finds","tag-webdesign","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}