Our widescreen TV’s, credit cards, and field of vision are some of the manifestations of this ratio that we all know too well.  Come to think of it, I’d bet the last half bottle of Asahi I’m drinking now, that the smile of a beautiful woman on a glorious summer’s day, also conforms to this ratio.  My wife’s smile, of course.

We don’t need to work it out for ourselves, we get the math done for us with this cool golden ratio tool.

If the glory of rounded corners and multiple background images and image layers can be handled within CSS3, then will there be any use for trusty old PS or Illustrator even?

I’m not sure as yet whether Css3 will be able to manage gradient images, I’m going to look into that one…

I’ll still use good ol’ Photoshop I think.  And Illustrator too – CSS3 will probably have to come a long way yet to negate the need for these two friends of most web designers.  Image editing, colour correction and I’d guess resizing will probably still be better done by the Adobe suite (or other, more open flavours of software if that’s your cup of tea!)

New Forest Tree Surgery Icon

Well, following on from my previous post about the Wacom Bamboo pen tablet, I’ve created my first icon using this lovely little bit of kit – for the New Forest Tree Surgery website – our latest web design project.  It’s a simple leaf icon, this may develop into a sprouting seed as we progress with the graphic design.  News to follow of the release of this website.