Websites of the Week

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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.