Here are collection of interesting design articles I have found on the web. Some may prove useful for you, as they were for me.
This file was last modified on: 10/17/2006 2:28:11 PM
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Useful visual tool showing the standard web banner sizes used on the web today.
Useful visual tool showing the difference in font sizes using percentages.
Perfect for your explaining tags to your business.
The Drag-and-drop JavaScript library enables easy-to-do dragging and dropping of elements in your web application and to do sortable lists and floats.
The CSS cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing all selectors (as of CSS 2.1) and properties.
Typography, I find, is still a bit of mystery to a lot of designers. The kind of typography I’m talking about is not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography. Call me a little bit purist but this bothers me.
Here is an easy way to calibrate your current monitor. Try it today!
New accessibility blog uses a quiz format to seek current best practices in the place where accessibility touches design.
Have you ever created a webpage with a Flash animation overlapping other elements of your page? The thing is the Flash content will (almost) always go on top of the other layers regardless of the stacking order ("z-index") of those layers. There is, however, a way to solve this problem by making the background of your Flash movie transparent, this way you'll see the layers underneath
Looking for a solution to a CSS problem I am having, I ran across this nifty resource.
The objective is to ask some questions about markup and generate some discussion about preferred methods.
You will inevitably run into Internet Explorer issues when using CSS. This site is perhaps the single best source of information regarding the copious amount of CSS bugs that occur in IE.
This link is pretty handy when you need quick reference for character codes.
Recently, I was faced with the question of whether or not I should replace my one year old iPod. I was not excited about shelling out another $500. Then I learned that Newer Technology sells iPod batteries that you can replace yourself! So I finally replaced it and it works excellent!! I even get a longer run time. I also upgraded my powerbook titanium to a 80GB drive!
Anyone who wants only to search, can just search. People can even circumvent a page full of results with the "I´m Feeling Lucky" button. But, click on the advanced search or preferences links, or a whole other array of options within the site, and Google´s suddenly much more than a simple search engine. You can even switch languages to Elmer Fudd or The Swedish Chef. How cool is that?
It's a mini web app that they spun out of Basecamp. Basecamp This is a cool project management tool. Perfect for your next design project.
Browsing the web, I found this cool tidbit. May I present an incomplete yet impressive list of fonts used at Walt Disney World and other Disney-affiliated ventures. Makes me want to go visit Disney World.
Hello is Picasa and Google's little secret, and it sure as hell shouldn't be. Picasa is a way of storing and indexing your photos. Hello is about interacting. Hello was created as a way to share those photos Picasa spent so much time indexing, but it does so much more.
Google Desktop beta. a baby step towards the GooOS. Do a regular Google search and GD results are inlined right at the top (see screenshots for how it all works). It will be interesting to see how this does since they are trying to go after a standard feature in Microsoft's OS. Maybe we will one day soon see a google operating system.
The biggest challenge for web designers is the unthinkably huge number of possible ways to solve any given problem. We usually don't think of this because we have our habits and traditions to fall back on, but there are literally billions of possible pixel combinations for each page we make...
Among the many websites that are out there, few are standards-compliant. Among those few, only a handful sport style sheets adjusted to the needs of handheld devices. Of those which do offer styling for handhelds, not all will fit the smallest, lowest-resolution screens without presenting the user with the ultimate handheld horror: namely, horizontal scrolling. This article presents a set of general suggestions for creating a handheld-friendly style sheet that works well even on handheld screens no wider than 120px...
You captains of industriousness! We received curiously strong submissions for our Altoids tin challenge: a battery pack for the iPod, a minty-fresh cheese grater, and a full-blown MP3 player! (Plus a puzzling variety of mini-shrines.) But Ken Kirkpatrick, creator of the Altoids Mini Speakers, rocks the hardest.
Our agency receives its share of RFPs, and sometimes these requests stipulate that our proposal include layouts. Even if the project looks promising, we just say no...
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I found this nifty little website that will analyze your site and offer solutions and problem areas of your site. FUN!
This lecture takes you through the basic commands and then shows you how to combine them in simple patterns or idioms to provide sophisticated functionality like histogramming. This lecture assumes you know what a shell is and that you have some basic familiarity with UNIX.
The W3C has launched the draft version of XHTML 2. There will be new tags, however, current browsers will need to be updated to support them. Read on...
What's Ajax? For the geeks, it's Asynchronous JavaScript + XML. For the rest of us, it's a whole new way of looking at the web. Really.
Sometimes a developer needs to quickly find out which rules apply for a certain element or attribute in HTML or XHTML.
Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates...
Link prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit...
Bill Gates wants computer users, well, Microsoft users, to have a more enjoyable on-screen reading experience -- so much so that he made improving reading on the screen one of his top five priorities.
Web technologies have always been misused, to achieve effects they were not (yet) designed...
Where Web design is concerned, there's a lot to be said for the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle. There are just so many things that can go wrong that are beyond your control, why introduce potential problems deliberately?
Plenty of updated articles and tutorials for developers.
Macromedia Flash Video lets you easily put video on a web page in a format that almost anyone can view. This guide provides an introduction to Flash Video, including information on how to create and publish Flash Video.
Macromedia's Flash development center containing plenty of updated articles regarding flash.
Creating layouts entirely in CSS is easier. Select divs and other block-level elements in Design view and modify their properties with the CSS Rule Inspector to build cutting-edge layouts.
In the MVC paradigm the user input, the modeling of the external world, and the visual feedback to the user are explicitly separated and handled by three types of object, each specialized for its task.
SimpleBits is a tiny web design studio that creates simple, readable, usable interfaces balanced with a standards-based methodology.
Hicksdesign is the online portfolio and journal of Jon Hicks, a freelance print and web designer based in Oxfordshire, UK.
Great sarcastic articles about our favorite famous people. The Superficial is a brutally honest look at society and its obsession with the superficial.
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