The Design Police
The Design Police is a fantastic website offering a simple set of labels to help inform your colleagues and friends about the principles of good design. Use with care!
February 20th, 2008 Posted in CommunityFacebook Style Input
Ever wanted to re-create the autocompletion feature of Facebook? This great pair of tutorials will walk you through the process, letting you create great looking input boxes and save your users hours of time.
February 15th, 2008 Posted in CommunityNewspaper Designs
Designing for web and print have many differences, but also share several requirements and characteristics. This collection of award winning newspapers can act as great inspiration for your next text-heavy design.
February 11th, 2008 Posted in CommunityFancyZoom 1.0
Designed to view full-size photos and images inline without requiring a separate web page load, FancyZoom provides a smooth, clean, truly Mac-like effect, almost like it’s a function of Safari itself.
February 8th, 2008 Posted in CommunityHiding an Image in CSS
This is an interesting experiment, showing how to hide an image using CSS. The practical uses are questionable, but it is a new technique!
February 6th, 2008 Posted in Community
SitePoint CSS Reference
This is a fantastic collection of resources and articles put together as a CSS Reference. Perfect for anyone who works with style sheets on a regular basis.
January 28th, 2008 Posted in CommunityUsability and Interface Design Books
This is a great roundup of interface design books, covering the ins and outs of the interaction between users and web-sites.
January 24th, 2008 Posted in CommunityCSS Text Gradient
Do you want to create fancy headings without rendering each heading with Photoshop? Here is a simple CSS trick to show you how to create gradient text effect with plenty of examples.
January 17th, 2008 Posted in CommunityCSS Search Engine
I recently came across Search CSS – a site which utilizes Google to search for only well designed CSS sites. It’s an interesting concept! How useful it actually is I’m not sure, but it’s worth taking a look at.
January 9th, 2008 Posted in CommunityCSS Learned in 2007
This is a lovely summary post from Search This outlining some of the great new CSS tips and tricks from 2007.
January 9th, 2008 Posted in Community