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How to Create a Detailed Audio Player in Photoshop - Interface - Web Design - How to - Free Web How to. Snook.ca: Tips, Tricks and Bookmarks on Web Development. HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, and Articles. Web Design Best Practices Checklist. Pearsonified — Best Damn Blog on the Planet. Check Usernames - Social Media Username Availability. Design Festival » A blog about Web Design, Typography, Logo Design and UX. Bibliography. Books The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst The book which sparked this website. Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Muller-Brockmann The definitive word on using grid systems in graphic design. References & Tutorials Alan Wood’s Unicode Tests Massively comprehensive resource for locating and testing Unicode characters.

How to size text using ems Tutorial on Clagnut which explains in detail how to size text on websites using ems. Em Calculator Handy online tool for converting pixels to ems. How to Size Text in CSS A best practice that satisfies designers and users and works across browsers and platforms. The amazing em unit and other best practices Font sizing tutorial from the W3C.

Figuring It Out: OSF, LF, and TF Explained Great explanation of lining, old-style (text) and tabular figures from FontShop. Weblogs Typographica A journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design. Typographer.org Typophile I Love Typography Type For You. Mega Collection Of Cheatsheets for Designers And Developers. Cheatsheets and various quick reference guides are available for almost any type of software and language these days. Unfortunately they’re not always easy to find when you actually need them. This is why I decided to take some time to gather up as many as possible and share them with you here! Hopefully this can be a timesaver for you, along with teaching you a new trick or two. The resources have been divided into various categories to make them easier to find. Below are more than 100 cheat sheets and reference cards for the following topics: CSS3 Cheat Sheet ↓ CSS2 Visual Cheat Sheet ↓ CSS Cheat Sheet (V2) ↓ Css Property Index ↓ BluePrint CSS ↓ HTML 5 Cheat Sheet ↓ HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet ↓ HTML5 Glossary ↓ HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet ↓ Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (Convert CMYK, RGB Hex) ↓ Javascript JavaScript Cheat Sheet ↓ Javascript DOM ↓ JavaScript Reference Card ↓ jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet ↓ jQuery selectors ↓ jQuery 1.3.2 ↓ jQuery 1.3 ↓ jQuery 1.2 ↓ Mootools 1.2 Cheat Sheet ↓ MySQL.

Learn How to Make Websites | Mozilla Developer Network. The 10 Most Important Skills You Need to be a Web Designer. Here are my top 10 web design skills that you WILL need to master to become an effective web designer. If you’re serious about mastering web design and marketing, check out the Pro Web Design Alliance. See how Jordan benefited from the course forum and Google hangout sessions to make his and his clients’ sites better. Look at Jordan’s site and the testimonials from his clients here.

 The personal interaction with Ben and fellow students while  working on live sites makes the learn by doing course philosophy start generating money for you while you are still in the course. Your priorities may be different (and my priorities may be different a few months down the line). And I’d add that you don’t need all these skills in any particular measure to make it in web design. But to be a fully rounded web professional, this is my take on the ideal make-up. #1. I’m convinced the #1 most important skill for a web designer is the ability to use words effectively. . #2. . #3. The core basics include: 50 Must-read Books on Web Development. Maquette - Tutoriel HTML & CSS. Présentation Pour la réalisation de notre maquette graphique de site, quoi de plus opportun que la réalisation d'un site pour une société de vente de maquettes.

Nous allons réaliser une maquette de site de maquettes, en quelque sorte. Dans un grand élan d'inspiration, nous appellerons la société "Maquettes Casey Steven & Son" ! Nous allons réaliser une page assez typique, avec un entête visuel contenant le titre du site et prenant toute la largeur de l'écran en haut de celui-ci. Tout site se respectant dispose bien-sûr d'un menu. Le menu principal sera un menu horizontal en haut de la page ; Un sous-menu vertical (menu secondaire de la rubrique principale sélectionnée) sera aussi présent sur la gauche de la page.

En temps normal, vous n'aurez besoin que d'un menu. Afin d'avoir une vision globale tout au long de ces chapitres, voici le résultat global que nous souhaitons obtenir : Voici les images dont nous avons besoin. Body.png entete.png h1.png menu.png menu-lien.png menu-lien-droite.png <! Web Development &amp; Design Tutorials - NETTUTS. W3Schools Online Web Tutorials. Web Design Process.

Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! Future of Web Design London 17th - 19th May 2010 | Home. Islands of Consciousness - Code/Visualization: Mario Klingemann - Soundtrack: Oleg Marakov / Corpuscul. Islands Of ConsciousnessCode/Visualization: Mario Klingemann | Soundtrack: Oleg Marakov / Corpuscul When Oleg Marakov pointed out the similarities between his piece of randomly arranged music Islands and my random movie creator Flickeur it was immediately clear that a combination of both projects would definitely result in something very interesting.

The result of this fusion - Islands of Consciousness - is not a simple combination of the two concepts but a great advancement. Sound and Images enter a very close relationship in which the randomly arranged musical phrases are taking direct influence on the visual outcome. So when you look at this piece keep in mind that all the visuals are assembled in realtime using photos downloaded from Flickr.com. All the transitions and effects are entirely random and only happening on you screen. Other people will see a movie and hear a soundtrack that is totally different from yours. 10 Secret Code Phrases to Get What You Want from Your Graphic Designer. Pixels, white space, focal points and sans-serif.

Designers have their own language, and it’s baffling if you’re not used to it. It’s almost like we have a “secret code,” and we reserve our best work for the clients who know it. When you speak with us, you might feel like you need a translator to communicate what you want and get marketing materials that stand out. But the good news is it’s simpler than it sounds. In the end, you don’t need to know the difference between points and pixels to get the best work from your designer. Code Phrases to Avoid: Say the phrases below at your peril. When we hear these come out of your mouth, we immediately start either formulating how we can say “no” to working with you, or calculating how much more we should charge for the project so that we can cover the additional time it will take to deal with you. 1. 2.”Here, I made a layout for you.” 3. 4. 5. 6.

Code Phrases to Use: The phrases below are music to our ears. 7. 8. 9. 10. The biggest secret of all? 10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies. We hear plenty usability tips and techniques from an incalculable number of sources. Many of the ones we take seriously have sound logic, but it’s even more validating when we find actual data and reports to back up their theories and conjectures. This article discusses usability findings of research results such as eye-tracking studies, reports, analytics, and usability surveys pertaining to website usability and improvements.

You’ll discover that many of these usability tips will be common sense but are further supported with numbers; however, some might surprise you and change your outlook on your current design processes. 1. The idea that users will get frustrated if they have to click more than three times to find a piece of content on your website has been around for ages. Logically, it makes sense. But why the arbitrary three-click limit? In fact, most users won’t give up just because they’ve hit some magical number.

Source: User Interface Engineering Sources and Further Reading 2. Footer design, 200+ best. As most of you guys probably know, the footer is the last significant part of a website. It tends to be used for placing important information, such as the RSS feedback button, slide galleries, contact information, latest posts, the site map, among others. But the footer its not just a large space to fill the bottom of the page. Its a whole design area, in which the designer can place some pretty cool ideas that will not fit inside the main space of the site. In this countdown, we will be showing you some of the coolest footer ideas on the web, so lets get it started.

Ground-Like Footers This footers are identified by a high quality illustration on it, this is used by some designers to complete the layout of the website. The usual things this footers show are landscapes, cities, green and blue. 1. This is the first example we found concerning ground-like footers. 2. 3. In Vimeo you will find a cool footer. 4. 5. 6. 7. This one reminds me of Vimeo. 8. 9. 10. 11. See? 12. 13. 14. 17. 18. CSE 190 M, Summer 2010.