Saturday, October 27, 2007

Dynamic Drive CSS Library

Welcome to Dynamic Drive's new CSS library! Here you'll find original, practical CSS codes and examples such as CSS menus to give your site a visual boast.

53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

Take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites.

Color Theory for Web Design

Good use of color can have a big influence on a web site.

Web 2.0 & Online generators [100+]



Check out some of the more popular web 2.0 generators. These make it easy to add stuff like badges, stripes, loading gifs, rounded corners and more to your site.

300 Images From 1800 Sites

The purpose of this document is not to copy the intellectual property of others, but rather as a jumping-off point for your own unique web graphic projects. It's for brainstorming, if you will.

25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs

Here are 25 websites that make use of very little unnecessary design elements but still manage to pull off a beautiful appearance.

Check out more here at Webcreme.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007

A Wall of Imagination, Ideas, Tutorials, and Web Trends



Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery. He likes to share ideas and design techniques. This site serves as his public blog where he posts design ideas, tutorials, and talks about modern web design trends.

The Best Designs.com

The Best Designs recognizes the best Flash and CSS web sites from around the world. Websites are categorized by CSS or Flash and also by elements of the design.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Don't overlook the basics

Layout is the most crucial aspect of web designing. The basics of web are frequently over looked; instead people start calculating on tangent of (CSS, tables, frames, etc.)

Is SEO dead?

Over the last year we've seen various changes in how search engines and social media sites are getting traffic. What are the differences?

How to create a good enough website

Seth Godin offers his insights to creating a website that's 'good enough'.

Becoming a Master Designer

Here's a three part series on tips to becoming a good web designer.
Rule #1: Limit Your Fonts
Rule #2: Limit Your Colors
Rule #3: Contract, Contrast, Contrast

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Color management for web designers and developers

Color management is great, but it’s a point of confusion for many web designers and developers. Should I use a color profile? What is sRGB? Why do colors look different in Photoshop vs. my web browser?

Design Expanse

Design Expanse is a website focused on providing its audience from all over the world specially from Pakistan with a large and best database of well designed websites from across the world.

They have various categories that I think provide inspiration for how to design websites.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Web Design 101: Floats

Virginia DeBolt writes about how with browsers improving, creating layouts with CSS becomes easier and easier. A reliable workhorse in CSS layout options is the float property.