Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies Advertisement Back in January, we published an article on responsive design, “Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How to Use It.” Responsive design continues to get a lot of attention, but considering how different it is from the “traditional” way of designing websites, it can be a bit overwhelming for those designers who have yet to try it. To that end, we’ve compiled this round-up of resources for creating responsive website designs. Included are tutorials, techniques, articles, tools and more, all geared toward giving you the specific knowledge you need to create your own responsive designs. Responsive Design Techniques CSS Transitions and Media QueriesElliot Jay Stocks provides insight into the combination of CSS media queries and CSS transitions. Responsive Data TablesChris Coyier and Scott Jehl are experimenting with responsive design techniques for displaying data tables. Responsive Images, Responsive Videos Resizeable Images (At Full Resolution!) Responsive Email Newsletters
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers - Six Revisions Adobe Photoshop is the tool of choice for most web designers. From creating a website template to objects and components such as content boxes and buttons, Photoshop doesn’t fail to deliver. In this collection, you’ll find 25 excellent Photoshop tutorials geared towards web designers. If you know of a good Photoshop tutorial for web designers – why don’t you share it with all of us in the comments.
Top Visual Search Engines: The Most Interesting Ways To Visually 1. Grokker Grokker is a web-based search engine that allows you to explore your results in a visual fashion. Your results are displayed both in a standard outline and in a dynamic map you can interact with. Grokker takes advantage of Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and Amazon Books search engines to perform its queries. Cooliris is a browser extension for Firefox (all platforms), IE (Windows), and Safari (Mac and Windows) that allows you to explore SERPs in a visual fashion. 30 Beautiful Clean and Simple Web Designs for Inspiration Beautiful typography, strategic use of colors and graphics, and obstruction-free aesthetics devoid of visual clutter are a few of the characteristics shared among web designs that are clean and simple. In this collection, you’ll discover a few excellent web designs that are clean, simple and elegant. Here are related collections you should also check out: 1. Nizo 2. 4. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 8 Faces 17. 18. 19. 37signals 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. enjoythis 27. co: collective 28. 29. 3Degrees 30. Related Content About the Author Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions.
Get a Log of your Online Activity as an Image with FriendFeed FriendFeed feed widget that lets you export an image log of your online activity/ This is helpful if you like to include your lifestream in an email message or need to embed it in a site that doesn’t support JavaScript (e.g. MySpace & WordPress.com). FriendFeed recently added an image based feed widget that lets you export a log of your online activity as a still image. This is helpful if you like to include your lifestream in an email message or need to embed it in a site that doesn’t support JavaScript (e.g. To get started, simply login to you FriendFeed account and go to Embeddable Widgets. While there are enough services already convert feeds into images, the feed widget from FriendFeed is far better because it supports image thumbnails and you also have more control over the output image.
Free Personal Finance Software, Money Management Online, Financi Defending The Generalists In The Web Design Industry Advertisement In recent years there has been a move away from generalist Web designers to specialists such as content strategists, user experience architects and front-end coders. Where once there was a single job, there are now many, with ever-narrower spheres of responsibility. While my peers are becoming more specialized, I have stoically refused to do so, remaining a generalist. This has drawn criticism from some who view generalists negatively, which is in line with some of what I am reading in the blogosphere. Where has this negativity come from, and is it justified? Why Is Being A Generalist Considered Bad? Part of the criticism is based on how complex the Web has become. This is certainly a valid criticism. The danger is that, without generalists, specialists become so wrapped up in their silos that they find it difficult to work with specialists in other disciplines. Still, I suspect this is only part of the cause of the “snobbery” against generalists. Should You Be A Generalist?
6 Gorgeous Twitter Visualizations Ah, Twitter. It's impossible to get away from it; it seems that everyone stopped whatever they were doing B.T. (before Twitter) and switched to doing cool stuff for and around the service, and this includes data visualizations. In the past, we've profiled unique Twitter-related visualizations, but now we're after sheer beauty. And that's exactly what we've found; here are six gorgeous Twitter visualizations. Know of a beautiful Twitter visualization? 1. Although it's a bit too slow for everyday usage and functions better as pure eye candy, Social Collider is actually quite an interesting tool. 2. Just Landed is a beautiful geo-visualization of tweets containing the words "Just landed in...". 3. In its exploration of Twitter, Twistori goes back to basics: to what we love, hate, believe, think, feel and wish. 4. Twitt3D would have been much better looking if it weren't for the shabby overall page design, but it's still a very interesting visual tool. 5. 6. Honorable mention - TweetWheel
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