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Office of Government Commerce (UK) unveils hilarious new logo
The new OGC logo has quite the different look if you see it from the side. Whoops!
Creative examples and ideas for website footers
Some great thoughts and examples of website footers. Some interesting new ideas for what content to put down there and how it should look.
Posted in Design & Development & Web
404 error page gallery
Great examples of 404 error pages (page not found) that look good and some great ideas on functionality as well.
Posted in Design
Install multiple versions of IE on your PC
Unfortunately it worked terribly for me, tons of JavaScript errors and sites didn't display CSS remotely like they should. Hopefully it works better for you. (via)
Posted in Design & Development
A List Apart advice on selling your ideas and projects
Great advice on how to pitch your idea or project to the decision makers in your organization. Lessons on taking criticism, being succinct, and knowing your audience.
CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know
Everything you've ever wanted to know about the CSS concept of floats.
Posted in Design & Development
Navigation Matrix Reloaded
Had to scour the Interweb for this link yesterday for a friend, can't believe I didn't have it saved in my del.icio.us links or anywhere on this site. Great write up on a very useful design/CSS topic to create good looking and complicated list-based navigation.
Posted in Design
Logo design from LogoStick
One of the many pretty decent online logo design tools, and they've got a great looking site as well. Not really any reason for your business, no matter how small, to have an ugly ass logo you did yourself in Microsoft Word.
IE sucks... hack to fix z-index/select bugs
A CSS-only solution to the Internet Explorer bug that puts absolutely positioned elements behind select boxes.
Posted in Design & Development & Web
Browser testing CSS and JavaScript
Some good thoughts from Roger Johansson on browser testing for CSS and JavaScript. Working at a PC-centric employer I don't test the more obscure Mac browsers and I focus on PC Firefox but otherwise my habits are very similar.
Posted in Design & Development
Adobe Kuler
Color color schemer tool from Adobe called kuler. You can use the tool to create your own color theme using the color wheel or even better browse popular and highly rated themes. I thought the Orange on Gray
color scheme above was especially nice.
Posted in Design
Cheating Color
Some quick tips from Jason Santa Maria on using color and slight variations to achieve the right optical value.
Useful information for making a color look the same with varying contrasting colors and amounts.
Posted in Design
Gridding the 960
Helpful tool from Cameron Moll for designing for sites for 1024px resolution. The image has a background image grid, pixel ruler, and column divisions for a 960px-width layout. Could be very handy.
Posted in Design & Development
sIFR 3 beta available
Lots of needed new features (leading, kerning, and opacity) and easier to implement. I'll have to check it out soon.
Posted in Design & Development
Ajax loading gif generator
Quick, simple, and attractive way to create loading animation gifs for your site. Pick a color and pick a style and you're done.
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CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions
Great set of links and screenshots to some Web 2.0 solutions to web input forms.
Posted in Design & Development & Digg
Display a Google calendar on your site
As expected, Google has created a very easy way for you to add a Google calendar to your website. Fill in a few quick fields and then grab the HTML (it's an iframe) and drop it into your site, takes 30 seconds.
I'll be messing with it soon to add my UT sports calendar to my Longhorn sports blog.
Posted in Design
Fire your Boss! The Successful Home Freelancer's Guide
I absolutely love my current job but you never know what the future holds. I can definitely see myself setting out on my own in the distant future or possibly starting up my own firm at some point. (via Lifehacker)
Six WordPress themes
Six really good WordPress themes from If..Else, I particularly like "Emire." Some great looking designs that don't look too much like templates and would work well for a variety of different weblogs. Great use of dark, deep colors.
Posted in Design
Navigation tabs with CSS and DOMscripting
Looks pretty easy to use and implement, definitely useful for later.
Posted in Design
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