Wahooooooo!!! Going to San Diego today on vacation for a whole week. I’m pretty excited about it. We’ll be going to the zoo, sea world, and hopefully stop by the hotel Lorna and I stayed at on our honeymoon (the SeaCoast Inn, pictured above). (And yes, that is my bustling bicep in the picture)
The ability to find a needed tutorial quickly can make a serious impact on the time line of a project. (What? Designers don’t already know how to do everything?) Here are a couple of very nice tutorial sites that I have found myself using fairly often:
gnomonology.com
kirupa.com
webdesign.org
w3schools.com/css/
sitepoint.com
Ok, most of you have probably seen this already but I thought it was kind of funny. In this article, Boing Boing caught Apple using a gigantic hand model to reduce the perceived size of the iPhone (it comes out Friday, by the way).
An amazing flash piece written by Keith Peters. All of the graphics and animation were written with code. Genius.
As college graduation approached several years ago, I realized that I had a problem. I had always assumed that when you were handed your diploma, you were also given a piece of paper that listed the job you had been automatically hired for, your (top dollar) wage, and the address to the new house [...]
I thought this was a pretty good review of what makes a good website design. Although the sites have fairly different feels to them, they all do a great job of sticking to the basics (proximity, flow, etc..) The more important aspect of the sites, however, is that they all accomplish [...]
You don’t have anything to worry about.
Came across a great article on the science and effectiveness of web ads. Much of the data was made possible by Google Analytics. I’m starting to wonder if Google actually IS the internet, and it’s just been going by a different name all these years.
I was pretty excited to put Safari on my windows machine, what with all of the hype and whatnot. Apple claims that it renders HTML, Javascript and other applications faster than any other browser. Well, I installed it, and guess what? It did! Check it out:
It didn’t render any text! So ya, sure it was [...]