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Smashing Apps has a new handy list of Web Dev tools:
"Prepare to be overwhelmed by an onslaught of new browser releases in the coming months as Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, Opera Software, and Google all vie to provide your vehicle for navigating the web."
From A List Apart:
"Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience. Much of our talk about web design revolves around a sense of movement: users are thought to be finding, searching, skimming, looking. We measure how frequently they click but not how long they stay on the page ... Readers flourish when they have space—some distance from the hubbub of the crowds—and as web designers, there is yet much we can do to help them carve out that space."
From Noupe.com:
"Whether you’d like diagramming application, create vector images, format or optimize CSS code, generate patterns- you can use dozens of tools to make your life easier."
Great list of tools. Take a look here »
File this under 'could be handy someday'. JS Charts is a free tool for making pie charts, bar graphs and other visual representations of data.
Interesting article about making Web type legible and easy to read:
"Initially it is more difficult to create a good layout with a big font size, but that difficulty will help you design a simpler, clearer site. Cramming a site with information isn’t difficult, but making it simple and easy-to-use is. At first, you’ll be shocked how big the default text is. But after a day, you won’t want to see anything smaller than 100% font-size for the main text. It looks big at first, but once you use it you quickly realize why all browser makers chose this as the default text size."
Read the '100% Easy to Read' article here »
And, check out a related article, 'Web Design is 95% Typography' »
Ever tried to create your own CSS graph? If you have, you will know how hard it is. Using Flash is one way to go, but you just can’t beat a beautifully crafted CSS Graph. Have a look at these tutorials and techniques.
Best of the 2008 HighEdWeb conference is available in audio online.
Some of the topics are 'Campus Web Redesigns', 'Accessible Video' and 'Using Analytics to Understand Your Audience'.
About typography for Web and strategies for CSS image replacement:
" ... things have significantly changed over the last couple of years. ‘Bad’ browsers are phasing out (albeit slowly), handing over control to the designers by means of CSS. Which doesn’t mean total control, though. Especially when (enviously) looking at the area of print, there is one facet in particular we would love to be able to borrow: typography in all its glory."
One of my favorite vintage design resources, Retrolounge, has links to numerous retro design, photograph and ephemera sites. Lots of fun to browse some of these ... and handy when you need ideas for a project that incorporates vintage type or styles.
Jared Spool writes about how Changing a Button Increased a Site's Annual Revenues by $300 Million
"It's hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year. What was even worse: the designers of the site had no clue there was even a problem."
CSS3 specifications are still in development ... but why wait to learn about them? Web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and WebKit-based browsers already have full or partial support for CSS3, so now is the time to experiment.
To help you get started, the Six Revisions site has pulled together 20 excellent resources on the topic of CSS3.
Thoughts from designer Jason Santa Maria:
"Without the print edition to serve as the flagship product, the website will no longer be a second class citizen or a quaint add-on to a business model; it will become the business model ... The medium of print will not die, but its spot atop the mountain of mainstream content distribution is in its final days. This could bring about a rebirth of design innovation online. "
http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/the-death-throes-of-print/
Need a slideshow solution? List is separated in 3 big categories like Ajax, JavaScript and Lightbox based galleries, CSS based galleries and Flash based galleries:
www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/57-free-image-gallery-slideshow-and-lightbox-solutions/
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