Screenalcio.us

Screenalicio.us is the web's new premier source for showcasing excellent websites and inspire artists all alike to create spectacular work of their own.

They have the largest collection of websites you will ever lay your eyes on, and it keeps on growing every day.

All you got to do is start browsing. Go on. Get inspired!

A Digital Magazine Awarding Super Hot Websites

Here's a great web site that was established in 2005 to promote and award websites that exhibit outstanding design qualites...Website Design Awards.

Websites of the Week

24-7media.de


annielennox.co.uk

Retro Style

Revised versions of past styles is a common and very popular technique. It is found in advertising, cd design, fashion, and of course, website design. It is done for a variety of reasons, sometimes driven by the content of the site and at other times by the desire to associate the site with some element of the past.

Web Page Development: Best Practices

Apple's Developer Connection web site offers some very good information on best practices for building web sites. The article offers some practical hints on how to create standards-conforming websites, and to work around some issues that will arise on Explorer's browser.

Ten questions for Patrick Griffiths

Patrick Griffiths (or PTG) is a London-based freelance webmaker. He is most widely known for his site HTML Dog, an HTML and CSS resource for beginners and experts alike. The 10 questions.

Articles & Tutorials on Good Web Practices

Check out this site for helpful information on good web practices when building your web site.

Batch Processing Images

Here's a great tutorial using Photoshop to turn a bunch of digital photos into thumbnails, and then format them on a web page with Dreamweaver.

Design Melt Down

A great site that covers design elements, trends, and problems in web design.

Looking for some good text tricks?

Mandarin Design offers some very good methods by which to add in some unique text tricks to your web site.

eHub

Emily Chang has jumped into the middle of what everyone seems to be whispering about these days. She’s part of the Web2.0 Work group, a member of TheCorantNetwork, has been involved in the creation of eighty plus websites.

eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.

CSS Help Pile

There are some amazing resources available for creating powerful standards-based websites (a quick look at this site's inspiration proves that). Unfortunately, often these resources aren't centralized and searching for specific information can often lead to getting lost in a maze of links -- this is an especially daunting task when you're not exactly sure what you're searching for. The css help pile is an attempt to centralize linkage to those resources and tips in a collected and organized manner. The css help pile doesn't intend to compete with these resources, but rather, to promote access and discussion to many of the resources that are out there. CSS Help Pile

Web Developer's Handbook

Check out Vitaly Friedman's web site titled Web Developer's Handbook. It had information stemming from CSS layouts, color tools, typography, and more.

Did you take your Vitamin today?

The web has undoubtedly entered a new and exciting phase. Designers, developers and entrepreneurs are energized, refueled and producing some mind-blowing projects. The buzz is most definitely back! Vitamin is a brand new online magazine dedicated to that new web industry.

Vitamin will inspire you, teach you, advise you and sometimes test you with its in-depth features, audio interviews, training sessions and reviews.

It’s updated every week, and it’s free! So whether you just want to get dirty with the code or plan to topple Google with your next cunning web app idea, Vitamin is your new best friend.

Check out Luke Wroblewski's blog site about Interface Design

Functioning Form is a blog about interface design. That is to say, it is where art and technology emerge as experience, where message and medium meld, and where interactions are useful, usable, and enjoyable.

Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning

What every CEO needs to know about the array of new tools that foster online collaboration -- and could revolutionize business.

Web Standards

What are web standards and why should I care about them? Read on and find out why.

GOOGLE LOOKS TO SPIFF UP ITS DESIGN

Don't look now, but Douglas Bowman is joining Google as ``visual design lead.''

Bowman's work includes a redesign of the Wired News site a few years ago. More recently, he punched up some of the templates for Blogger, and apparently helped with Google Calendar.

It'll be interesting to see what influence Bowman has over Google products. It's a company that's never really been known for its design sensibility -- fairly or not.

Bowman notes on his blog a very cool Google Calendar feature that lets you get a daily agenda of your appointments via SMS whenever you need it. Very nice.

Bowman said he would be helping Google establish a ``common visual language'' across all its products including Gmail, Writely, Page Creator and other projects in the pipeline.

See and read some of Bowman's work and interviews.

[courtesy of the San Jose Mercury News]

Preparing for Widescreen

The metrics of screen width are already beginning to change. A quick glance at the Web sites for Dell, HP/Compaq and Gateway shows that at least 75% of laptops are now offered with widescreens.

What Is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online.

Internet Glossary

If you're looking for the meaning of various web terms, take a look at Motive.

Font Savvy

If you're in need for some new fonts, try Font Savvy.

Web Sites of The Week

ContourCase
It's all we can hope for - clean, clear, I know what it's about and how to use it, plus fantastic and fresh design!



Rescuing Da Vinci
A different take: this time intricately woven interface with a purpose - unraveling the world of how Da Vinci's art was stolen by Hitler and recovered. Darker tones set the feeling well for this graphical story. Nice work.



JasonLimon
Best looking portfolio site of the week I'd say... nothing earth shattering, but solid, clean attractive design... tell me it's not becoming a lost art!

How to conduct a Web site competitive analysis

Conducting a competitive analysis is an important part of the job if you're a usability engineer or information architect. A good competitive analysis not only produces usability metrics but also aids decision makers in their strategic goal-setting and planning.

Zen Garden

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

What Are HTML Meta Tags? (Meta Tag Tutorial)

Meta tags are hidden html tags of an html document that are not displayed in a browser but provide a browser or search engine robot with useful information.

Teacher John

Here's a great web site from Teacher John [ John Govsky ] covering web graphics, CSS, HTML, and tons of resources.

Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1 & 2)

Everyone makes mistakes. Avoid fatal flaws by learning about the top seven ways designers and clients contribute to inaccessible Web sites. In the first part of a two-part series, you’ll find out how taking too much responsibility and planning for only the direst of circumstances can undermine your accessibility project.
Part 1 Part 2

Web Sites of The Week: General

JasonLimon

Best looking portfolio site of the week I'd say... nothing earth shattering, but solid, clean attractive design... tell me it's not becoming a lost art!

Gulyas Jozsef

Love the photo transitions and the mood of the photos. This is an elegant personal portfolio site with a fantastic infectious feel. Once again, simplicity with ELEGANCE takes the day! Ok, the site is in Hungarian, but you'll like it just the same.

StratoCucine

Italian kitchens... wow.. what a nicely done design and site. Clean, slick, clean, slick, clean slick! Nice layouts, transitions, colors, photos. All cohesive and makes me want that high end hardware man!

Web Design rom Scratch

'Web Design from Scratch' aims to be a complete guide to web design for eveyone interested in creating effective web pages.

Wufoo

If you can submit it, we can build it. Making forms easy+fast+fun.

Live by the Mockup, Die by the Mockup

Luke Wroblewski talks about the Mockup. The term itself brings to mind the duality inherent in this omnipresent design artifact. It’s both a direct...

htmldog.com

HTML Dog is a guide and resource, for beginners and experts alike, to the most commonly used technologies in making web pages - HTML and CSS.

Looking for web books?

Looking for web books? Check out Peachpit.

CSS Sprites: Image Slicing's Kiss of Death

Say goodbye to old-school slicing and dicing when creating image maps, buttons, and navigation menus. Instead, say hello to a deceptively simple yet powerful sprite-based CSS solution.

Web Design Times

Web Design Times is a new daily news and information resource for web designers.

Web Sites of the Week

Chris Garrett is a young designer based in Gloucestershire, UK. He's been working in new media for over 4 years now.
http://chrisgarrettmedia.com

Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who take interest in websites that combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS.
http://www.stylegala.com

Yahoo! Developer Network

Do you eat, sleep and breathe JavaScript? This is your source for information for using JavaScript with Yahoo! Web Services APIs.

'Instant' Domain Search

This site is designed to help you find the right domain name for your web site. Just start typing.

Early and Often: How to avoid the design revision death spiral

David Cronin covers the lessons one can learn from client collaboration, and how critical it is success.

Top 5 Firefox Extensions for Web Designers

One of the best features of Firefox is that it can be expanded with a wide range of optional extensions. There are extensions to help with blogging, privacy, working with RSS files, or just having fun. Here’s a list of the 5 extensions most useful when doing web design.

CSS Curly Quotes

Simon Collison recently explained how to create Swooshy Curly Quotes Without Images using CSS. It’s a nice technique that works cross-browser, but you have to add tags to your markup for it to work. Here is an alternate technique that requires no changes to your markup that will work in modern CSS2 compatible browsers like Firefox.

Five simple steps designing grid systems

Mark Boulton is an award-winning typographic designer based in Cardiff, UK. Specialising in clean functional design. In this article he points out steps in going about designing grid systems.

Web Sites of the Week

1- Well design site for a great architeture firm.
http://www.hillier.com

2- For the sports person inside us all.
http://www.nike.com/

3- Designer site that provides clients with interactive and print design solutions.
http://www.firstbornmultimedia.com/

Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist

Brian Crescimanno, discusses ow often the smallest usability quirks, creat the biggest annoyances for users and forms.

Writing a Web Business Plan

So, you've mastered HTML, CSS and Perl. You have a great sense of intuitive design. Now, can you write a great business plan for your client? Find out by Scott Kramer, what steps to take to make it happen.

Clean, Crisp Web Design: How To Create Clean Looking Designs

Tim Donahue offers some great ideas on how to go about creating a great web design that clean and inviting to the eye.

Web Sites of the Week

1-Bold design, and nice use of Flash to show off stunning photos!
tonygarcia.com

2-Great creative feel to this site. Fun 3-D images.
design-insights

3-Nike has put together a great looking site that is clean and yet provides greats tips for the beginner and expert runners.
nike.com

Cool Web Designs

Here's a great web site I browse to get ideas. Hope you'll like it.

Navigation Systems: A Visual Perspective

Go here to read a Powerpoint presentation by Reshma Kumar and Marina Naito, discussing the the methods by which to structure a web navigation system.

Web Production Tips

Envision Internet Consulting, LLC offers some great tips when it comes to web production.

Understanding You Web Audience

A detailed understanding of your target audience provides you with an effective metric by which to evaluate all your design decisions: structure (content and organization), visual presentation (personality and tone), and interaction (functionality and behavior). Luke Wroblewski expands on this concept. Read more here.

Filling Amazon's Tall Orders

See how the world's largest online retailer ensures that gifts get delivered on one of the busiest shopping -- and shipping -- days of the year.