Tag interface

A collection of interface design solutions from all over the web, where users can mark patterns they like, and learn from other's design solutions.

Not only is this a beautiful site, but the screenshots they've provided are going to provide some great inspiration for future projects.

User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers. See examples and read rationale, solutions, and implementations for each pattern.

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.

Some fantastic graphing options to produce charts that look much better than Excel - and they're dynamic, to boot.

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.

sIFR replaces headings and text in websites with Flash-generated text, letting you use your own fonts.

LukeW Interface Designs provides expert interface design services for Web applications, Web sites, and Web-based multimedia.

A great little jquery plugin to draw rounded corners using the web browsers 'Canvas' functionality, including a Canvas implementation for IE. Very clean, non-jagged corners.

A great article on some shortcomings of OpenID from the perspective of a new user. Some of these can be resolved by site owners ('consumers' in OpenId-ese), others require a bit of input from the OpenID foundation. Some great observations, generally geared towards making life easier for new users.

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

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.

exljbris is Jos Buivenga's Free Quality Font Foundry. 6 very high quality, beautiful, free to use fonts.

You can create a web 2.0 button in only 4 steps. You can paint your button with preloaded web 2.0 icons or upload your personal icon and customize the font of the text inserted. Enjoy with php, gd2 and Photoshop base button and jquery ajax powered. Hosting/housing windows and linux domain with php/mysql/gd2.

Handy tool to generate seamless striped background images

Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator

Web Application Form Design

ColorCombos.com was built to help web developers quickly select and test color combinations.

At the heart of the site is the Combo Tester, which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen. Very handy.

Jeffrey Veen of Adaptive Path gives a few pointers on what he'd like to see in a perfect Content-Management system.

Joseph Scott has a number of very useful articles on using prototype.js to allow users to edit data inline. Very useful for allowing data edits without requiring page reloads.

Browsershots lets you test your web design in different browsers - you enter your URL, and come back an hour later to see how your website looks from various combinations of browers on Linux, Windows and MacOS. Ultra-handy for testing quirky CSS layouts!

TagsField is a small app for Django, that implements tagging for arbitrary objects in your applications with a form control for editing tags.

Wink is some nifty Windows software that allows you to create tutorials by capturing screenshots, adding explanation boxes, buttons and more, and saving the output in a Macromedia Flash file suitable for use on the web. Perfect for screencasts of software!

Mark James has made available (for free!) over a thousand magnificant icons for use in web applications, your programs, etc etc. The 'Silk' set looks fantastic and has an icon for just about everything you could imagine needing an icon for.

The Scrutinizer makes it easier to develop websites that are accessible to a wider range of people, by bringing together tools that check your site for ease of use by colourblind people, by checking validity of various elements, and more. Strongly recommended.