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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Navigation tabs with CSS and DOMscripting
Looks pretty easy to use and implement, definitely useful for later.
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Building your own web2.0 layout
Funny, true, and actually kind of useful how-to on building a web2.0 website. I want to go with something much brighter for this site when/if I get around to a redesign.
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Sweet titles
Just added here on this site. Looks pretty good and was easy to implement. Now I've got to start adding good title attributes to links again.
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The Holy Grail of CSS layouts
Three columns with a fixed-width sidebar for your navigation and another on the right. Add a liquid center and make them all equal heights and you've got the Holy Grail
off CSS-only layouts.
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Scalable logos
Uses Flash to scale a logo when you change the font size in the browser.
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Bubble tooltips
A very nice and standards-based way to use only CSS and JavaScript to add fancy tooltips to your site's links. (Example page.)
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Apple's iWeb is no bueno
Considering how much better Dreamweaver 8's XHTML and CSS support has gotten over the last few year's Apple's new iWeb sure does output some nasty code.
<div class="paragraph Body">
Yikes.
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Search engines and canonical URLs
I just added the two rules to my .htaccess file, hopefully it won't screw anything up.
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Refresh Dallas launches
First meeting of new local Dallas community of web designers and developers is November 10th in Plano. It's right down the road so I'll be there.
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20 great and free fonts
Some very good looking ones on there.
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CSS Specificity Wars
Great, funny, and easy to follow explanation of how the specificity of ID's, classes, and elements affect your CSS.
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CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1
Roger Johannsson explains the basics of selectors plus the universal, type, id, and class selectors. I'd love to be able to use the attribute or child selectors but IE doesn't support them, my fingers are crossed for IE 7.
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Originality in Logo Design
Complete and blatant rip-offs, accidental rip-offs, too similar inspirations are all getting more and more common in logo design.
I really need to spend some time working and creating a true logo for seven22 and fore here too.
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Mike Davidson's MT 3.2 impressions
Mike's initial impressions of the upgrades and a few things he's still waiting for either Six Apart or some plug-in writer to take care of.
Sure is nice to know that someone like Mike has Anil and the rest of the crew's ear.
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A List Apart 4.0
New everything, front-end, back-end, design. Back-end CMS was by Brian Alvey of Weblogs, Inc., I had no idea he was involved at all with web standards and design.
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About going solo
Advice for anyone with thoughts/dreams of becoming a freelance web designer.
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Design In-Flight closes shop
I was a DIF subscriber and enjoyed the first 2 issues a lot. I never took the time to sit down and read the latest two though, I need to.
(via Authentic Boredom)
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Preload :hover images in CSS
Something I'll have to take advantage of since fixing this site's menu with PNGs is proving to be a pain in the butt.
a,
a:hover,
a:focus { background: url(image_hover.gif); }
a:link { background: url(image_default.gif); }
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TexasSports.com using SlideShowPro
Was looking for photos of last night's Texas game and saw that TexasSports.com is using SlideShowPro for their galleries now. I wonder when that happened. They have a separate slideshow set up for each sport, and then each slideshow contains multiple galleries.
Pretty cool implementation.
Posted in Design & Photos & Sports
Hide CSS with @import
Table listing all the different rules to use @import
to hide CSS from certain browsers.
(via CSS Beauty)
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Logo trends of 2005
LogoLounge looks at all of this year's trends in logo design.
I must touch up/finish/redo seven22's logo ASAP.
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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 div
s. 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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Zeldman keynote
Slides from Jeffrey Zeldman's keynote at SXSWi.
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Airbag logo contest winner
The winner of Ledger Paper logo contest over at Airbag contest has been announced and I have to say I really like the new logo as well as the runner ups. The original contest announcement sparked a lot of pretentious discussion about the value of design.
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Screen Grab Confab, vol. III
Wow, all these people are so much better than me. There is some seriously awesome looking stuff going on there.
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Automation will kill us all
Why should we hire designers when we can just use automated programs to make our own logos?
Because the stuff they make blows.
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Decorate Malarkey's studio
Some really funny stuff in the comments.
Use the Unsharp Mask filter
Good tip that I will now use often. Keeps image detail high when resizing a large image to a smaller size.
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Justwatchthesky redesigns/reinvents
One of Christina and mine's favorite sites has redesigned. Not only has Ryan changed the look, but he's also going to turn the site from weblog into portfolio. Sounds like he's still be blogging from somewhere new soon though.
In the meantime, check out this slideshow of his puppy Gabby.
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How To Build a Successful Freelance Web Design Business
Something I'm very interested in. He's got a book on the same subject coming out soon that sounds good too.
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The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004
Lots of crap to avoid in 2005 that unfortunately too many people didn't in 2004.
(via Authentic Boredom)
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Six Apart Redesign Coming
It seems Six Apart is about to release a redesign on us. Looks pretty cool from the tiny preview Mena let us see. Looks much nicer and less like the weblog that it is. The interesting part to me is that the whole thing is MT powered and they're going to write up case studies on how they did it. I really need to get down and so some PHP work on this site, could really make some stuff work much more smoothly.
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Listamatic
I found this before but lost it, now Cameron has reminded me again.
Great set of sample menus using unordered lists, includes the needed HTML and CSS.
(via Authentic Boredom)
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Scrivs sold the CSSVault
Scrivs sold the CSSVault for $XX,XXX
, I hope things over there stay as it's a hell of a CSS-based design resource. I imagine he got out a good time though, as Stylegala, CSS Beauty, and unmatched <style> are all good sites with the exact same concept.
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Untold Mysteries of CSS
Saw this when it was originally posted, but never got around to reading it or linking to it. Some basic, but not widely known, info on universal selectors, !important
, and multiple classes on one element.
(via CSS Beauty)
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456 Berea Street
456 Berea Street is Roger Johansson's personal site. It's one of the better sites out there for tips and actual code on how to do cool things with web standards and CSS. His article on inverted tabs is the source of inspiration for my tabbed menu in V3 of this site.
Just a great source of information and discussion.
Basecamp Project Management
An amazing piece of software. I have heard people (including the creators) talking about Basecamp for a long time now, but I had never noticed there was a free version before. The free version only lets you manage one project at a time, but otherwise it's the full blown app.
Basecamp lets you track a project's major milestons, create to-do lists, send messages, share files, and pretty much everything else you could think of. You even get a unique URL where everyone related to the project can interact and work together.
Posted in Design & Development & Tech
Stop Design photo galleries
Pretty damn cool way to do photo galleries. The technical info on how he used iPhoto, Photon, and Movable Type to create them is in this post.
Getting Unstuck
Four tips for getting yourself out of a design jam.
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Does sIFR suck?
I think it's pretty damn cool personally, but obviously I don't know a damn thing. He's actually saying that Flash sucks and text on the Web still sucks, despite the issue or two sIFR solves.
Good discussion follows in the comments.
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Turning a list into a navigation bar
Nice write up of how to take an unordered list and turn it into a navigation bar. Pretty simple but there is some stuff in there that's also pretty easy to forget.
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26 steps to 15k a day
Some great tips on building traffic. As always, content is king.
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Beware of Opening Links in a New Window
I've gotten away from the practice lately, for one target ="blank"
takes time to type and for another it's not valid in XHTML Strict.
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How and when to use sIFR
Great article on scalable Inman Flash Replacement.
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Google AdSense
I'm sure you've noticed the ads here on this site, they're powered by Google's AdSense. It's a simple and unobtrusive way for me to earn enough money to pay to maintain this site. Even with my limited readership, I've earned about $50 in the last three months, more than enough to pay the entire year's costs. Wonderful tool for webmasters, I can't imagine how much more popular sites bring in.
Simple request for Google's team though, how bout coming up with an actual logo so I don't have to make my own?
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stock.xchng
Instead of paying for stock photography (some sites charge hundreds of dollars for a photo), stock.xchng lets you upload and download photos for free. Pretty damn useful and cool.
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Zeldman goes postal
I've never had issues with the USPS site, probably because I've never tried to actually purchase anything.
Comment spam load issue
Jay Allen from MT and of MT-Blacklist lore comments on the escalating comment spam issues. He discusses a couple of major bugs that cause excess server loads even on set ups with proper comment spam prevention measures in place. Sounds like a patch should be available soon.
Update: Looks like a new pre-beta version of MT-Blacklist is available that fixes a major bug and some minor ones.
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The copyright year dance
It's that time of year again. Last minute Christmas shopping? No, no. Time to update the copyright notice on all your webpages. Blake includes several different functions to automate the damn process. This is just my first year change since I've been using MovableType, but I can't believe I never thought to put <$MTDate format="%Y"$>
in my footers. Must do it now. Bye...
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Photo Fade-ins, vol. II
Update to the javascript photo slideshow, no flash required.
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NFL helmet prototypes
Some pretty cool looking stuff here, unfortunately on a lot of them he doesn't know if they were actual prototypes considered by the teams. Still cool. (via Authentic Boredome - Linkage)
Float layouts
Great article on floating elements with CSS. Covers basic concepts all the way to advanced usage issues.
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The alt and title attributes
Discussion of the ways the alt
and title
attributes should be used and how browsers should display them.
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Accessibility: On a shoe-string
More good ways to use the Web Developer Toolbar from Chris Pedrick. I already use it pretty extensively when working on a site, but I had never thought about using the Disable Colors
or Disable Images
items.
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ADxMenu
Wow, some really cool completely CSS menus. The Netymology one is really nice, too bad IE screws it up.
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Designer Christmas Cards 2004
I didn't think about this, but I guess it makes sense that a lot of designers make their own Christmas cards. Some really cool ones so far. Maybe this would be something I could work on, give me a little practice on something with a mission and obvious themes.
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Web stock
Dave on web designers' stock photography needs versus what stock providers offer. Mentions a couple sources I had never heard of.
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Desk Grab Confab
A bunch of sweet looking workspaces. Mine blows, I hate my desk and it's too small. I think I might look at buying a second simple desk of the same height as my current one. Then I can set them next to each other and be all set. (via Authentic Boredom)
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Traffic building tips
I think I do most of this stuff, but I good definitely do a better job of updating with quality content more often. The focused content will be tough since this is a personal site, but with my design site I should do a better job of that too. Here's a summary of their tips:
- Good content
- Focused content
- Get featured
- Keep them coming back
- Keep it Fresh
- Keep it clean (Your code that is)
- Submit to Yahoo! and DMOZ
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SlideShow on the Way
Very interesting stuff. I'm still considering options on Matt's site for displaying tons of photos. This may be one good way. Hmmm...
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Don't delete weblogs!
I thought it was an MT-related issue or possibly something I screwed up, but as Greg over at Airbag was told it's actually an MT-Blacklist issue. Apparently Jay agrees and hopefully he will fix whatever the problem is soon.
Both MovableType and MT-Blacklist are great pieces of software that I would prefer to keep being able to use.
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Bright Corner is hiring
Holy crap! There's actually a really awesome looking web design, etc. company right in Plano. And they're hiring! I'm not at all qualified (yet), but it looks interesting and seems like they type of place I might want to work at someday. If you are qualified, check out their soon to be redesigned site.
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Invasion of the Body Switchers
An alternative method based upon the original Style Switcher. The main upgrade is that it enables independent switching of different media types, meaning you can set up multiple screen and multiple print stylesheets and control them separately.
Seems pretty cool but the old method still looks more useful for me. I'll have to look into it a little more.
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sorttable: Make all your tables sortable
JavaScript function that allows you to sort table data simple and easily. (via 5411)
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Onload image fades without Flash
I've really got to find a way to create easy to update and maintain galleries for the sites I'm working on. Here's one possible option, we'll see...
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Scrivs on the MSN Search beta
I've seen several posts mention the new MSN Search beta that was released yesterday, this is the first to actually critique the design on it's visual elements and not just on technical issues. He particularly dislikes the buttons, which I had noticed too. The text seems to be too low in the button, or as he says the text is just too big or the button is too small.
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Looking Around the Corner at CSS3
Pretty cool example of what can already be done in CSS3 if you have a good browser. I think his examples of what you can do with substring matching attribute selectors and the opacity property are particularly cool.
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Easier worn effect
Set of brushes for Photoshop to make the "Wicked Worn Effect" a lot easier. (via Authentic Boredom)
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Meeting a User's Emotional Needs
Another excellent article from DKR on how to meet all of a user’s needs and satisfy the goals of the business at the same time. He's a great designer but really seems to have a firm grasp of the business side of things as well.
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CSS rollovers with PNG support for IE
That's a long title, not too much new on the rollover front but good tips on how to use tranparent PNG's and get them to work correctly in IE.
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Author Highlighting in MT
Absolutely great help with something I've been planning on implementing here when I get the rest of the comment styling set up. It allows me to easily highlight my own comments so they'll stand out from all of the other ones on an entry. You know... because I'm more important than you.
Dave Shea also adds a helpful comment where he suggests instead of basing it on name, I can use the email field to store a password. Clever.
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Why link to index.php?
Good discussion on proper home page linking practices. (via 5411)
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Document titles and blips
Good stuff from both The Man in Blue and 456 Berea Street on titling your webpages. Before I had used BrianBehrend.com - Page but as someone pointed out, Windows then adds another - before the browser name. I like » a little better and will be using that from now on.
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The Weekly Standards Audio Show
An weekly "radio" show from Adam Howell of
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CSS negotiation
Good source of tricks to push certain CSS to certain browsers. It'll definitely be needed to make this site not look like crap in IE.
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Navigation Matrix Reloaded
Wow, that's cool. I don't have plans for tabs on Matt's site, but this seems like something I might want to consider when I finally create 722WebDesign.
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Mike Industries
MikeIndustries.com is the homepage of web designer extraordinaire Mike Davidson. Web designer probably isn't the best term, his current job title is "Sr. Assoc. Art Director & Manager of Media Product Development". You might not recognize his name but if you check out his portfolio, you most definitely have seen his work. The guy redesigned the ESPN.com homepage for crying out loud and most of the other stuff on the site too, so you can pretty much say he's got my ideal job. Sports and web design, I'd be a happy man.
I've only been reading his weblog for a short time now but it's already become one of the first sites I check in the morning. He only updates a couple times a week but his posts are always coherent, interesting thoughts (unlike a certain other site). The site is definitely of interest to anyone who likes sports and/or web design.
Mezzoblue
Mezzoblue is the personal site for Canadian web designer Dave Shea. A great source for ideas on CSS and design in general. A great example of what can be accomplished with a little CSS and a lot of creativity. Both new and more advanced web developers should definitely check it out. Dave is also the creator of the CSS Zen Garden.
Scrivs on Independent Thought
Long read on the design/weblog community. Pretty good read as usual.
Main point is don't just accept everything someone says because of who they are in the community, and then don't just post comments like You're so awesome!"
so that people will visit your site. If you have an interesting point to make, whether it's positive or negative than feel free to comment. "It sucks"
is just as bad, "I hate it because..."
is much more helpful.
The best way to get repeat visitors is to have quality content, something I'll have more time to work on when (if?) I ever get done with this redesign.
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Movies.com redesigns
I only realized Movies.com was a Disney property a couple of months ago when I noticed that my ESPN Motion worked with their version of Motion (now called Cinequiz). It looks pretty good, nothing too major aesthetically. The major change comes in the conversion to a CSS and standards based design.
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color synthAxis
A pretty advanced web-based color picking tool. So advanced that right now I really don't know what I'm doing with it, I need to read the manual more thoroughly. Definitely pretty cool and even just refreshing the page a bunch of time comes up with some nice looking color combinations.
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sIFR: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement
A relatively easy way to deliver rich typography on webpages using Flash rather than HTML/CSS.
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JAlbum: Free web photo album software
JAlbum seems to be pretty cool and looks like it's pretty easy to use. It has some cool templates too, you can even make you own.
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D. Keith Robinson: Web design details
A nice detailed list of details that are important to consider when building sites. Unlike Cameron Moll's advice that I posted on a couple days ago, all of these definitely pertain to web development.
Most of the items in the list are simple and straight-forward, but stuff you're liable to forget if it's not a habit.
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Eight things I wish I’d known when I started
Excellent advice on being a designer from Cameron Moll, most of which apply to all forms of design including web. Several thoughts should be very helpful to me as I try to figure out exactly how the hell I'm gonna pull this stuff off. Fortunately for me I already am pretty good about doing his number one thing, focusing on all details large and small.
Every element added to a design, whether print or web, decreases the importance of every other element already on the page.
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Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards
Flash is great, unfortunately putting any of it in your site will immediately cause your XHTML to cease validating. Apparently about 80% of the code Flash MX creates for putting the movie into your webpages is not compliant. This is the "Satay Method" from A List Apart, which allows you to get functional as well as valid Flash in all browsers.
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Color schemes
Dave Shea on style and color theory. I need a lot of help with this kind of stuff, being completely unartistic. He mentions three techniques for choosing colors: technical, matching (ie. taking the colors from a photo), and just old fashioned intuition. Intuition would be a very bad choice for me, I think I'll stick with matching when I start my redesign.
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MTPhotoGallery
MovableType plugin that allows you to display a gallery of images in a folder. Definitely an interesting option, but I'm not sure it'll be the way I go for my site. The required file naming conventions kind of throws a wrench on things.
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