Links to more than thirty PDF documents containing useful information that no designer should go without.
http://www.positivespaceblog.com/archives/pdf-documents-designer/
June 2008 Archives
"Effortful study means constantly tackling problems at the very edge of your ability. Stuff you may have a high probability of failing at. Unless you're failing some of the time, you're probably not growing professionally. You have to seek out those challenges and push yourself beyond your comfort limit."
At Smashing Magazine:
"This post presents creative examples and best practices for design of pull quotes. We’ve tried to identify some common solutions and interesting approaches you may want to use or develop further in your projects."
'If you’re concerned about your web pages’ speed or want to make sure you’re in tip-top shape before starting or launching a project, here’s a few useful, free tools to help you create and sustain high-performance web applications."
Tips and advice from Jason Santa Maria about design critiques:
"Critiques are about dialogue; a two-way conversation ... Critiques should be more of an investigation than an interrogation. Try to understand why the designer did something before suggesting that they do it another way. Basically, try to understand the problem they’re trying to solve."
Read all the tips:
http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2006/02/02/utl_2_critiquing.php
Another good overview list of best practices for getting a site up-to-snuff for the search engines. Some great points to note are the 'sitemap xml files' and 'links with meaning' ...
See the list:
http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/06/09/10-seo-rules-for-designers/
Another good post over at Veerle's site:
"I receive a lot of e-mail per day and some of them are from people who want my help on CSS ... So the first tip here is, learn about Web Standards and learn about coding with CSS for layout. There are a lot of good books out there to learn this from the start. This is the basis of good web design.:"
Read the article and find resources here:
http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/starting_with_css_and_bug_fixing_tips/
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
Great for testing.
Just Creative Design has a fine compilation of links to design/dev articles. Take a look:
http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/06/02/top-best-design-articles-may-2008/
