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Posted at: June 19th, 2007 - 10:11 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Coding Horror: Let’s Build a Grid
Khoi Vinh, the design director for the New York Times, explains how essential grids are to web design in his SXSW presentation with Mark Boulton, Grids Are Good (Right?).
So much web design work relies on establishing a grid and the constraints on that grid: ad sizes, display size, browser display […]


Posted at: June 12th, 2007 - 6:53 am - Number of Comments » 0

Tabbed Navigation Using CSS
This tutorial will teach you how to create low-bandwidth tab navigation on a web page using CSS. As an extra bonus you’ll also learn how to switch tabs without loading the page more than once.


Posted at: May 23rd, 2007 - 11:17 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Creating bulletproof graphic link buttons with CSS
A CSS problem I have been wrestling with lately is how to create a bulletproof shrinkwrapping graphic button. By that I mean an image-based button that will expand and contract to fit the amount of text it contains. It is a very useful technique for CMS-driven sites that allow […]


Posted at: May 23rd, 2007 - 11:02 pm - Number of Comments » 0

» 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration - Online and Off
Everyone who hasn’t encountered designer’s block, raise your hand. Just as I thought. Well then, chances are you could use some places to get inspiration for those days when the pixels aren’t aligned and your mouse finger isn’t clicking like it should. We’ve compiled a […]


Posted at: May 23rd, 2007 - 10:51 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Have a look and let me know if it’s worth us buying ?
Report: The Designer’s Guide to Web Applications
UIE has published a new report The Designer’s Guide to Web Applications, Part I: Structure and Flows which looks useful to anyone building or redesigning a web app.
The first chapter is available as a free download (PDF […]


Posted at: May 22nd, 2007 - 1:37 am - Number of Comments » 0

CSS-Based Forms, Modern Solutions
Good examples of beautiful functional Web 2.0 forms.


Posted at: May 22nd, 2007 - 1:35 am - Number of Comments » 0

Designing Interactions is a book and a DVD as well as this website.
You can browse by chapter as well as by interview. When you choose an interview, a small version of the segment from the DVD plays. You can also download (free) the chapter of the week together with the relevant interview […]


Posted at: May 22nd, 2007 - 1:34 am - Number of Comments » 0

Web Design is 95% Typography
The iA folks have written a post on Web Design is 95% Typography (including a follow up part two).
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in […]


Posted at: May 22nd, 2007 - 1:31 am - Number of Comments » 0

CSS Shorthand Guide
Ok. Let’s set the record straight. There is no official guide for each and every CSS shorthand property value. So let’s work together and put one together shall we? Ok. Straight to the business. Anytime I’ve ran into a specification (besides the confusing mess at the W3C), it turns into showing off a […]


Posted at: May 21st, 2007 - 11:12 pm - Number of Comments » 0