Design for non-designers
Haven't read it yet, just linking so I remember to. Will edit this after that.
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Transparent custom corners and borders
Create a resizable box with rounded (or any shape) corners, custom borders, and a transparent shadow without having to use extra divs. Very slick and something I'm sure to put to use sometime.
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Columns & Grids
Dave Shea discusses our options as designers when setting up our layouts with columns.
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The all new And All That Malarkey
Malarkey redesigns. I absolutely love the way he aggregated so much content into the home page without making it busy or confusing. Plus it of course looks fantastic.
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Web design trends
I like the plastic look and think it'll make sense for finalizing the design for the seven22.com logo and site design.
Update: Unfortunately, John has taken down his excellent site and therfore this link no longer works. (7/14/2005)
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MeasureIt - Firefox ruler extension
Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.
(via JoshuaInk)
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Adobe to acquire Macromedia?
Hopefully this is just an internal April Fool's joke that we're just now stumbling onto. It's sort of like if Microsoft bought Apple, not good at all.
For the love of God I hope they don't scrap Fireworks. I prefer it about 100 times to Photoshop.
(via everyone)
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Creating a Site Design Plan
A write-up geared more to the solo web designer working with small clients.
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More on freelance design rates
Good info about how much freelance designers are charging per job and per hour. Looks like I'm definitely on the low end, but that's understandable since I'm still just starting out.
All the rates are in British pounds, so keep in mind £1 is roughly $1.89 US right now.
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ColorCombos.com
A web color combinations tool and library for web designers. Very cool resource for coming up with color schemes.
(via SimpleBits)
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More Nifty Corners
Very cool, add rounded corners to objects without any images, just CSS and Javascript.
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Tackling payment for projects
John Oxton discusses payment policies for design projects. How do you make sure they pay up in a timely matter and how to limit feature creep.
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April edition of And all that Malarkey
Very nice temporary redesign by Andy Clarke. I love the old movie poster imagery he uses a lot. Looks great with the color scheme.
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The non-typographer’s guide to practical typeface selection
Very good follow up to Cameron's typeface discussion during Design Eye.
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The 10 Commandments of Freelancing
A list from Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer
of some very important things to remember if you're a freelance designer, probably the most important to me is number ten:
Thou shalt never miss a deadline! Be late with a job and chances are, that a particular art director will never call you again.
I've got a lot of work to do tonight to be ready for my meeting tomorrow. I think Christina and I will be able to handle it, and I'll stay up all night if I need to.
Definitely a book I'll check into soon.
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Dave Shea's SxSW Panel Notes
Notes and slides from More Hi-Fi Design with CSS
as well as the Web Design 2010 I couldn't attend because I went to a great panel on typography.
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How to Make Big Things Happen with Small Teams
Includes a PDF of the presentation that I wasn't able to attend because the room was packed eventhough I got there 10 minutes early.
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Finished site from Design Eye for Idea Guy
I can't believe Dirk's not gonna use it, I wonder if anyone would notice if I did. :-)
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Design Eye for the Idea Guy
From the SXSWi presentation.
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How to bluff your way in CSS
Very funny SXSWi panel from Andy Budd and Jeremy Keith.
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