Recent trends, examples and innovative solutions for design of modern navigation menus at Smashing Magazine:
February 2008 Archives
My new favorite Firefox extension is Fireshot. Very handy. It lets you grab the WHOLE web page as an image with a single click.
Creating a carousel nav for your images? Here are some examples to get inspiration:
iXDA keynote with Alan Cooper, interaction designer.
"Best to market, trumps first to market"
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1416866797&channel=1274129191
Another fun list of blog designs to oogle at Smashing Magazine:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/20/45-more-excellent-blog-designs/
Vintage wallpaper patters at Veerle.com.
"There is a bit of a trend in interior design at the moment with the revival of the vintage wallpaper backgrounds from the sixties & seventies."
"It’s hard to imagine now, but during the record industry’s first decades of existence, music releases came packaged almost exclusively in plain brown wrappers ... But a talented, 23-year-old New Yorker named Alex Steinweiss would quickly change all that when he took a job with Columbia Records in the ’30s."
From MooTools:
Swiff allows for communication between Flash movie (.swf) files and the page's JavaScript, opening up possibilities not available with JavaScript alone.
A valuable tip for any PowerPoint projects:
"Powerpoint will save pictures in a poorly compressed format by default. By asking powerpoint to compress these pictures, you can optimize your presentations more efficently. With this decreased size you can email them and transport them easily."
Handy techniques for preping screenshots for hi-res use.
From Digital Web Magazine:
"like to think I’ve seen all the angles on portfolios; I started out working as a designer, went freelance, expanded into an interactive agency where I hired designers, and finally cofounded a startup where we employ lots of freelancers. Let me share with you some of my observations and opinions—particularly from the viewpoint of an employer—on how to approach the task of building an online portfolio."
