I always love designs before they go to the higher ups.   Usually it means designs are cleaner more cutting edge and more marketing focused.   At this point designers have free reign over what it should look like and what it should sell.  The design process is slightly ignorant to the legal issues or information that needs to be supplemented that drags it more back toward center.   The greatest dream for designers right at this point is to “WOW”.  If the designer can make a statement the design will be a benchmark that will win confidence that the marketing is heading in the right direction.  If the designer and design win this crucial battle the client is  more comfortable to leave you with the freedoms you have started with and the gravity of “center” will not affect the project.   I proudly present the early designs for IBIS.

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As designers we are often faced with not enough of three elements, time, money, and or info.  Time can sometime be overcome with Redbull and coffee.  Money can be over come by just giving it away for free.  Info and or client direction can only be overcome by shooting things into the dark, or as my fellow designers say “throwing sh@#$t at the walls and seeing what sticks.”    Mark Center was an umbrella company who owns and operates multiple apartments outside DC and wanted to start branding the properties as one.  The old site was short throw from horrible and for some reason they liked the utilitarian quality of it.   All of us in the design shop thought  it was horrible and yet we weren’t given a lot of freedom to divorce from it.

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So I have come a across many articles on the web about css and some of it I just wonder where people first found out they could do these things.  But the more I have worked the web the more I haven’t been surprized or even informed about something I didn’t already know.  But here are some good tips for anyone who is doing CSS to make there lives easier.
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