Posts from “Jul 2014”
Much like our little Chinese New Year re-skin we decided to dress the website up again for Hari Raya. Hey, if everyone else is going to be flaunting new clothes and accessories I think our website deserves a little bit of shine on this day as well.
In The Easy Way to make nice looking Gradients I shared a technique to create pleasing gradients easily using a graphics application like Inkscape. The thing is you can just as easily apply the principles to CSS. Browser support for CSS3 gradients is quite good across the board (save IE9 & Opera Mini) so this’ll work fine.
Here’s a simple tip I learned to create clean, presentable gradients. The key word is subtlety.
I have a feeling Jakob Nielsen may balk at this design but I like it all the same.
When you go to the University of Cambridge’s Research section you’ll be greeted with this menu in the sidebar:
Pretty standard fair. But click on any link under Research at Cambridge…
and you get something that looks like the fair-headed child of a menu and breadcrumbs. The pages higher in the menu hierarchy have upward pointing arrows signalling “click me for a higher-level view” while also having a downward pointing nub that invites the user to drill deeper.
Very sexy!
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