Tag Archives: Development

HTML5 Resources

17 Jan

HTML5 For Web Designers

It seems that new resources and articles for teaching and promoting HTML5 are popping up almost daily. We’ve been given HTML5 templates in the form of the HTML5 boilerplate and HTML5 Reset (although they both go beyond just HTML5 stuff). We’ve got a plethora of books to choose from that cover HTML5 and its related [...]

Learning to Love HTML5

17 Nov

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/10/learning-to-love-html5/ Related PostsThe Youtube CSS Sprite CSS frameworks Object Oriented CSS CSS Unleashed CSS Grid Framework

Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices

3 Oct

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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/20/typographic-design-survey-best-practices-from-the-best-blogs/ The study shows a clear set of common practices and guidelines for setting type in Web design. Note, though, that these findings are not scientific and should serve only as rough guidelines: 1. Either serif or sans-serif fonts are fine for body copy and headings, but sans-serif fonts are still more popular for both. [...]

How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism

2 Oct

How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism

Winston Churchill once said: “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” Regardless of where you work or who you work for, being able to take criticism is part of the job description. Whether you’re getting feedback from your boss or a client, having a proper perspective on criticism and a sound understanding of how to use it effectively is important.

As open source surges, Microsoft admits Linux threat

10 Aug

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4295534311.html Related PostsDevelopment Environments and Frameworks Application Builders General Development Tools Website development Reference and General Resources 30 websites to follow if you’re into web development

Adobe rolls out new open-source projects

10 Aug

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10291713-2.html Related PostsWHITE HOUSE Website switched to OPEN SOURCE! Free PSD libraries for designers Design and the Divine Proportion Grid Based Websites 3d Libraries

On Custom Development

8 Jul

I communicated the decision to stop custom development 4 months ago for the following reasons: 1.) A lot of the stuff that we are developing is already found somewhere, So i don’t want you guys to waste your time. 2.) The ability to re-use is very low: a lot of our development is just made [...]

Image Maps

15 May

No need to cut an image into several images in order to make different parts of 1 image link to different URLs. Use something called “Image Maps”. The way this works is by seperating the same image into different areas and make each area link to a certain URL. This can be easily done in [...]

Flash Resources & Tools

1 Jul

Flash Resources & Tools

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PHP Resources & Tools

1 Jul

PHP Resources & Tools

Related PostsMicrosoft loves PHP, You don’t believe it! read this post. PHP IDE Test: Why Use One And Which To Choose