Tag design
A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards
link posted 9:38 a.m., Saturday 3 May, 2008. Wilson Miner has written a fantastic article for A List Apart discussing how he built the text and CSS-based charts for the fantastic data representation on EveryBlock. Whilst it's simple and really only going to be useful for barchart variants, it seems to me to be a great way to visualise data using basic technologies.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accessibledatavisualizationDjangoSites Gets New Shoes
blog post posted 7:22 p.m., Wednesday 30 April, 2008. After almost twelve months online and well over a thousand sites submitted, DjangoSites has had a facelift and moved to a new hosting home.
PS HERO » Free Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, Custom Shapes And More!
link posted 12:33 a.m., Tuesday 18 March, 2008. Free Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, Custom Shapes And More!
http://pshero.com/index.phpUI-patterns.com
link posted 6:04 p.m., Saturday 15 March, 2008. User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers. See examples and read rationale, solutions, and implementations for each pattern.
http://ui-patterns.com/Particletree » Rediscovering the Button Element
link posted 11:14 p.m., Thursday 28 February, 2008. Creating a consistent interface for your users is a constant struggle for every application designer. Building consistency on the web is especially tough because the visual rendering differences across browsers and operating systems are wildly different and almost arbitrary in what can and cannot be done. No where does this become more apparent than when you’re dealing with form elements and the biggest loser of them all in the battle for a standardized look is the infamous Submit button.
http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/Bullet Madness - free bullets project at Stylegala
link posted 1:59 a.m., Tuesday 18 December, 2007. Bullet madness is a list containing 200 free bullets, icons and arrows for your web design needs.
http://www.stylegala.com/features/bulletmadness/Fawnt - Top free fonts | Font - Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign
link posted 3:39 a.m., Friday 14 December, 2007. Top Free Fonts in just one look. Don't waste time, choose a nice font for best design.
http://fawnt.com/Bartelme Design | Creating graphs
link posted 4:17 a.m., Monday 3 December, 2007. A great article on creating beautiful 3D pie charts with Adobe Illustrator
http://www.bartelme.at/journal/archive/creating_graphs/Vitamin Features » Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered
link posted 12:17 p.m., Thursday 29 November, 2007. Vitamin Features » Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/ensuring-your-html-emails-look-great-and-get-delivered40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
link posted 6:46 p.m., Tuesday 20 November, 2007. The importance of typography in design can't be overestimated. accuracy, precision and balance geometric forms can give letters the elegance sharpness they deserve. Besides, elegant
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
link posted 10:44 a.m., Saturday 3 November, 2007. 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2007/10/25/100-awesome-high-resolution-photoshop-brushes/Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
link posted 12:19 a.m., Wednesday 24 October, 2007. Some fantastic graphing options to produce charts that look much better than Excel - and they're dynamic, to boot.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/18/charts-and-graphs-modern-solutions/Dive Into Accessibility
link posted 2:03 a.m., Wednesday 17 October, 2007. This book answers two questions. The first question is "Why should I make my web site more accessible?" If you do not have a web site, this book is not for you. The second question is "How can I make my web site more accessible?" If you are not convinced by the first answer, you will not be interested in the second.
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/sIFR Documentation & FAQ
link posted 12:36 a.m., Wednesday 5 September, 2007. sIFR replaces headings and text in websites with Flash-generated text, letting you use your own fonts.
http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/LukeW: Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms
link posted 8:33 a.m., Thursday 30 August, 2007. LukeW Interface Designs provides expert interface design services for Web applications, Web sites, and Web-based multimedia.
http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/PSactions.aspValidating a Username via jQuery with Ajax
blog post posted 7 a.m., Monday 20 August, 2007. The phrase 'simplifying the user experience' (or it's cousins) is thrown around regularly these days, without many examples on HOW to actually make life easier for the end user. In my opinion it's about removing needless junk wherever possible, letting the user focus on what's actually important. A simple example I've extracted from a current project is minimising needless page loads. Read on to find out how I validate availability of a username during the Django registration process.
80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design | Design Showcase
link posted 9:47 p.m., Friday 17 August, 2007. You don't like to scroll? Be prepared. (We warned you.) Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: choice of a unique
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/08/80-beautiful-fonts-typefaces-for-professional-design/CSS Juice » 38 Free Icon Checkpoints
link posted 6:37 a.m., Thursday 16 August, 2007. CSS Juice is a weblog about design of CSS. Topics commonly includes CSS snippets review, web applications resources, web design tutorials, news and showcase of innovative design sites.
http://cssjuice.com/38-free-icon-checkpoints/blueprintcss - Google Code
link posted 5:06 p.m., Friday 10 August, 2007. Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/Stripe Generator - ajax diagonal stripes background designer
link posted 12:13 a.m., Wednesday 1 August, 2007. Handy tool to generate seamless striped background images
http://www.stripegenerator.com/Stock Photos & Web Templates
blog post posted 4:28 p.m., Thursday 12 January, 2006. A few links that I use regularly when building web applications are stock.xchng for stock photography, and Open Web Design for web templates (such as this one you're seeing now). Read on for details.