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With this sequence of articles we are going to present a long list of websites characterized by their minimalist web design style. According to Wikipedia’s definition, we can say that the main feature of this style is to reduce the subject to its very basics, removing any element that could somehow distract attention from the message that you want to convey.

Posted by Roberto on 21 May, 2008 

SEOmoz, one of the most important website in the field of SEO, has released The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet, a very useful resource for webmasters.

Posted by Andrea on 9 May, 2008 

CssGlance’s hosting service suffered an hacker attack few days ago. Quite a few of the most important Italian websites have been hit by the same attack.

Posted by Roberto on 7 May, 2008 

On Vandelay’s website a collection of 65 resources about grid based design: handful tools to improve efficiency and effectiveness of your project, as well as some articles for advanced techniques.

Posted by Roberto on 1 Apr, 2008 

I’m sure that in your life as web designers it often happened to you to deal with bad clients… well, I found a funny article on the net about the tough job of dealing with them.

Posted by Andrea on 10 Mar, 2008 

On Smashing Magazine an article which presents most significant recent trends, examples and innovative solutions for design of modern navigation menus. Interesting to see the difference between now and last year approaches of navigation design.

Posted by Roberto on 28 Feb, 2008 

Carsten Cumbrowsky’s article on Search Engine Journal provide us a long and pretty list of questions that a website owner should ask himself about his website. I think it could hardly be considered a final list… so, as the author himself suggested, feel free to discuss about it!

Posted by Andrea on 25 Feb, 2008 

Being a complete web designer means to develop different skills, from technical and artistic aspects of web design to communication and promotion ones. On Vandelay’s website, an article rich of resources links divided by category.

Posted by Roberto on 20 Feb, 2008 

The use of Internet in politics is growing more and more and with this the importance of a strategic good-looking design. An example is given by the present campaign for the American Presidential Election.

Posted by Roberto on 6 Feb, 2008 

A really well-done and exhaustive css properties reference, with examples of their use and the cross-browsers compatibility.
Great simple and clear interface, with a box search and a list of the sections, to browse the contents of this reference. Work by Tommy Olsson and Paul O’Brien.

Posted by Roberto on 30 Jan, 2008 

A list of the most popular articles, resources, and tutorials of 2007. Basics and principles of design, color theory, graphics and icons resources, css, layout and more to learn the ropes of design.

Posted by Roberto on 6 Jan, 2008 

Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet that could be really useful for analysing and creating grid-based websites.

Posted by Roberto on 23 Dec, 2007 

We’ve received quite a number of emails from designers who want to know how our MiniAdv banner works. Is it a JavaScript, a PHP solution, a server-side application? No, it’s even more simple. It’s CSS. Here we’d like to explain it in details!

Posted by Andrea on 5 Nov, 2007 

A great collection of tools to improve Css design technique: from colors and backgrounds, fonts and shapes, sizes or positions to faster and progressive loading of pages and much more.

Posted by Roberto on 3 Oct, 2007