You Tube-style embeddable maps
Adding a map to your website or blog is now as easy as embedding a YouTube video. No programming skills are required, and there’s no need to sign up for a Maps API key. All it takes is three simple...
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Journey to the end of the Internet
With a technique called picidae, two swiss artists Mathias Jud und Christoph Wachter, managed to find a way to by-pass internet censorship that rule countries such as China. Here’s how picidae works:...
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77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer
View ArticlePatterns in Interaction Design
Interaction Design Pattern library, by Martijn van Welie (via smalltransport)
View ArticleAfraid of CSS and Standards?
12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards, by Ben Henick
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Test email campaigns and how they will look in every mail client
Testing your design in all the different email clients out there has got to be the most frustrating and time consuming parts of sending email campaigns. Campaign Monitor’s design and spam testing tool...
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testing special characters
Test a range of special characters, using default fonts installed on various platforms and show the special characters at a few sizes, to get a rough idea of how they would look when scaled with this...
View ArticleCreate a WebClip Bookmark Icon (for iPhone and iPod Touch)
Create a WebClip Bookmark Icon (for iPhone and iPod Touch) 57×57 pixels : To specify a bookmark icon for all pages of a web site, place a PNG image named “apple-touch-icon.png” at the root directory of...
View ArticleThe 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007
The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007 Some personal highlights: The Importance of White space – One of the oldest principals of design is white space, and...
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‘blow up’ your flickr photos
Blow Up is a Flash-based Flickr viewer that shows your photos in a full screen display. Just drop your Flickr name and go. You can also get your own Blow Up to run on your site or blog. If you can...
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patterntap.com | organized UI inspiration
Pattern Tap is Organized UI inspiration. Fantastic.
View ArticleTaking the Plunge: Learning CSS
If you’ve been thinking of learning CSS but have become lost in the seemingly endless number of CSS tutorials that exist, you may want to read on. Webchicklet has compiled her favorite CSS-related...
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960 grid system
The 960 Grid System, by Nathan Smith, is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16...
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Email Standards Project
The Email Standards Project is about working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. The project was formed out of...
View ArticleReturn of the Mobile Style Sheet
If you’re just getting started with mobile design, you may face a number of hurdles, including the cost or technical challenge of designing and maintaining a second site—or a simple lack of...
View ArticlesIFR Lite!
sIFR Lite is an improved version of sIFR the Flash-based font replacement library that lets you embed virtually any font on your website without images. According to Richard, it’s a hell of a lot...
View ArticleCufón – sIFR alternative
Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set: 1. No...
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Baseline
Baseline is a designer framework by ProjetUrbain.com. Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts...
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HTML 5 for Web Designers
A List Apart just launched HTML5 for Web Designers. The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice! HTML5 is the longest HTML...
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jqueryfordesigners.com
Love how you can filter jqueryfordesigners.com by easy/medium/hard. (via @cameronmoll)
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What is HTML5?
What is HTML5 and why should we all care? See the large version here. (via @datavis)
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Wazala
Tired of selling your products on someone else’s platform and your visitors leaving your site? Have you been toying with the idea of adding a shop to your website but then never got around to do it as...
View ArticlePad Pressed
PadPressed is a WordPress plug-in built to deliver the best browsing experience for your readers on an iPad. When a reader visits your blog from their iPad it is automatically formatted to be tablet...
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The Evolution of the Hyperlink
The NYTimes recently introduced a new feature that allows users to link to and highlight individual sentences and paragraphs in its web stories. I am impressed! I agree with Courtney Boyd Myers: While...
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HTML5 is…NOW! – Jason Beaird from Jason Beaird on Vimeo. Jason Beaird, User Experience Designer at Mailchimp gave this interesting presentation on HTML5 at a Columbia Rrefresh Meetup. Watch the video...
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The Great Typekit Table
Finding a good Typekit font for long blocks of text is hard, but Sleepover has sifted through the Typekit library and pared it down to the following list according to two simple rules: first, the font...
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A 1140px wide, 12 column grid
The 1140 grid fits perfectly into a 1280 monitor. On smaller monitors it becomes fluid and adapts to the width of the browser. Beyond a certain point it uses media queries to serve up a mobile...
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WhatFont Bookmarklet
Do you ever visit a website and wonder what font they’re using? Yes? You’ll love this: WhatFont launched a bookmarklet that tells you what font is being used on text you hover over. This is crazy...
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Don’t Fear The Internet
Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer are the masterminds behind Don’t Fear The Internet, a site that aims to teach basic HTML and CSS for non-web designers. Through short tutorial videos, you’ll learn...
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Codecademy
Codecademy is an interactive guide to coding, for beginners. (via chrisglass)
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Is Mercury In Retrograde?
Is Mercury in Retrograde is a question I asked myself a lot last week. Now I know. Considering just how much went wrong during my trip to Switzerland, I am not surprised the answer is currently YES....
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PortKit
If you design apps for mobile devices, you will love PortKit. It shows you each Cocoa UI Element in iOS 6 and its Android 4 widget version, side by side, so you can compare them easily and find the...
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