@media 2009 London
One day to go! What is considered one of the most intriguing and awe-inspiring web events around, will take place in London on Tue 25th and Fri 26th.
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@media 2009 London
One day to go! What is considered one of the most intriguing and awe-inspiring web events around, will take place in London on Tue 25th and Fri 26th.
12 examples of mind-blowing websites
Web designers struggle every day to create impressive and usable websites, but what makes the difference between a good and functional product and a mind-blowing one?
30+ examples of Newspapers/breaking news websites
A list of interesting newspapers and breaking news layouts from all around the world.
To freelance or not to freelance: that’s the question!
Last night I came across an interesting podcast on Jeffrey Zeldman’s site, where few designers discuss about the ups and downs of being a freelance or setting up a new company.
Ubiquity: the new way of thinking
Mozilla Labs has recently unveiled a new Firefox extension called Ubiquity that might change the way you think about and make use of the Internet.
Accessibility of pre-filled input fields
In the last few days I found myself facing a tough question: are pre-filled input fields considered accessible yet? It took me some time, asking my colleagues and consulting accessibility experts, to find out a possible answer.
Free Language RSS Feed Icon Set
CSSGlance is very happy to announce the release of “Language RSS Feed Icon Set”. You can use these icons on your websites to mark you RSS feeds in different languages.
Using flexible CSS layouts to keep your content in order of priority
Keeping the content in order of priority improves the accessibility of your pages. How to use CSS to achieve any column layout, while keeping the most relevant content highest on the page?
New look and feel for CSSGlance
We are delighted to announce that our new CSSGlance is now up and running! As you can see, we fully changed the look and feel of the site trying to improve usability and better meet users’ expectations.
Minimalism design inspiration: part I
With this sequence of articles we are going to present a long list of websites characterized by their minimalist web design style.
Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
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.
List of grid-based design resources
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.
Dealing with clients…
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.
Navigation menus trends and solutions
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.
50 Questions to Evaluate Your Website
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!
Continual Improvement as a Web Designer
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.
Web design and politics
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.
SitePoint.com CSS reference
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.
The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources of 2007
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.
“Design” tool
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.
Pure CSS MiniAdv
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!
Css resources
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.
Designing for people
People are changing the way they consume online information and consequently their expectations about websites. Design aim is to give solutions in response of user’s needs, in other words, more intuitive and usable websites.
Gallery of registration/sign up forms
Christian Watson, author of a design blog named Smiley Cat, posted a showcase of 50 registration/sign-up forms which combine form design with visual appeal. The aim is to show that aesthetics and functionality/usability can coexist.
Standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control--key components.
10 web design lessons from 10 of the worlds best web designers: cutting-edge XHTML, CSS, and DOM scripting techniques.