Friday, June 27, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Web Design Case Study: Community
More and more businesses want an online networking site for themselves or their customers. The key to success lies in understanding what's appropriate.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Up Down 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
Here you'll find 30 excellent CSS techniques and examples that showcases the capabilities and robustness of CSS. You’ll see a variety of techniques such as image galleries, drop shadows, scalable buttons, menus, and more - all using only CSS and HTML.
Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices
Here are some creative examples and best practices for design of pull quotes.
Ultimate list of web 2.0 generators
If you are interested in web 2.0 design, this site help you get started because it has a compiled list of some of the best web 2.0 generator list for you.
Up Down Top 10 Firefox Addons for Web Designers
A look at the top 10 firefox addons that web designers shouldn't be without.
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Web-based Favicon Generators and Favicon Resources
Your website’s favicon is a key trademark to its look. It shows up in the navigation bar as well as on browser tabs (for most browsers at least), helping users quickly pick out your website out of the crowd.
Creating favicons is simple, and with these online favicon generators, you’ll have your own favicons in no time! Further down the article are some more resources related to favicon design and inspiration.
Social media site dedicated to design
Design Bump is a social media site dedicated to design.
They're about design, the web, social media, art, inspiration, and sharing. They want to bring design to the masses.
What is the best way to find relevant design-related content quickly and easily? Put the searching and sharing in the hands of the community. Design Bump categorizes the huge amount of design-related content available on the web into neat and easy to navigate pages of articles in order of importance/relevance.
Using moo.rd to Create Image Galleries
Riccardo Degni, is an Italian Web Designer who develops client and server side applications.
Read the article here
In the article he talks about his latest project - moo.rd - a JavaScript library based on the MooTools framework, as well as walk us through the steps of creating image galleries using moo.rd.
Expression Engine
Expression Engine. This is very, very slick. There’s a lot of new technology under the hood. It’s too early to comment on the details, as I expect the product that launches will be pretty different from the early peek we’re getting now. None the less, I’m excited to start using it. Launch is expected for “Summer 2008”. In other words, don’t hold your breath!
Check out Expression Engine's website.
Design View
I came across this website that offers various topics dealing with designing a guided tour on a website, how and why of styling text links, bad layout conventions, and more. Check it out.
Website analytics
Some owners and managers of websites and intranets, say they have ‘tracking’ on their website, but probing deeper you find they are referring to simple web statistics (read “hits”). This old style web stats is just not sufficient these days.
Demystifying Information Architecture
Here's a great article and presentation covering the fine art of information architecture.
Why Do Web Startups Die? Lack of Alphalpha
Internet startups are generally as successful as a nerd in a singles bar. Ventures that get off the ground rarely get knee-high. Why?
Review: Building Findable Websites
Aarron Walter’s new book, Building Findable Websites, attempts to bridge the gap between code and strategy to take a look at the more general and business-focused subject of ‘findability’ (a term first popularized by Peter Morville in his 2005 book, Ambient Findability)—and, at least partially, it succeeds.
Read the review here.
Web Design of the Times
Khoi Vinh has emerged as a leading critical voice in the evolving discipline of web information design. He talks about the challenges of integrating traditional and internet design.
Friday, June 13, 2008
How Firefox Outran the Hounds
The gains of Mozilla's Web browser broke Microsoft's grip on the market and showed the merits of open-standards software.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient
There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development speed, reduce debugging and testing time, and improve quality of the output. The tools described below are a variety of utilities, optimizers, testing, and debugging tools aimed towards helping developers create websites more efficiently.
Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs
Effective web design doesn't have to be pretty and colorful — it has to be clear and intuitive; in fact, we have analyzed the principles of effective design in our previous posts. However, how can you achieve a clear and intuitive design solution? Well,...
4 Steps Missing From Your Web Design Process
There are steps in the web design process that aren’t as fun as creating a beautiful design or coding an ajax rich interface, and for this reason they are often neglected or completely omitted. These steps may not be necessary to take a site from concept to production, but in terms of achieving the objectives defined by the project’s stake holders, they could make all the difference.
99 Sites ALL Designers Must Know About
Here's a list of 99+ graphic design resources, in English and (and a few other languages), that all designers must know about.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Be Part of a New Web Design World
Join your colleagues and top experts in the Web field as Web Design World returns to Seattle July 21-23 for three dynamic days of information, interaction, insight and inspiration.
UX Design-Planning Not One-man Show
Holger Maassen posts his ideas about the process of planning and designing for User Experience Design-Planning (UXD-P) as Expectation Design.
Expression Stuido
One short year after Expression Studio was introduced at MIX 08 was announced we're seeing a major update to the suite with Expression 2, which shipped last Friday. See here for information on some of the great new features such as PHP support in Web and Silverlight support in Blend as well as things that make Expression easier to install and update and even own via new subscription based pricing.
Expression Studio also has great support via the Expression Community with active forums and great articles, links and training about how to integrate Expression Studio into your design studio.
8 Degrees of Jakob Nielsen
Webmonkey recently included an excerpt from Jakob Nielsen's new book "Prioritizing Web Usability". The exerpt includes "Eight Problems That Haven't Changed". Check out the review here.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Top 5 Web Browsers That Aren't IE, Safari, or Firefox
Those three browsers take up a collective 97.1 percent share of the market. But what about the rest of us slobs who protest anything corporate, reject anything mainstream, and don't even know why? There is surprising amount of excellent web browsers that get no love at all.
Five Best Start Pages
Whether you use it to keep up to date on the latest news or as a launching point for the rest of your browsing, you want to find a solid start page to fit your surfing habits.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
9 Common Reasons A Website Is Not Drawing Visitors
Building a successful website obviously involves attracting visitors to the site. There are any number of ways to draw visitors to your site, but if you’re not having success it’s important to know what is causing the problems.
Web Monkey
Check out the new revised Web Monkey site. The entire site is a wiki, so all of the articles posted on Webmonkey are written and edited by the people who understand these topics the best: web developers like you.
40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART
Here are 40 incredible icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop.
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