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.