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Archive for May, 2007
20 of the best Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters …
May 18, 2007Plugins and filters extend Photoshop by providing new functionality and effects that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to achieve or by simplifying a process – here we round up the best Freebies
42 Web Design and Web Development blogs and sites
May 17, 2007A list of designing blogs and sites that all you designers and webmasters need to read. WOW!
The list includes: A List Apart, Boxes & Arrows, Sitepoint, Think Vitamin, Design Melt Down, etc, The funny thing is that the list has a section of News sites where Digg, Newsvine, etc. can be found.
Seems that I’m reading all of them but what I would like to read is some kind of the website which will cover the most interesting we design materials from all of them. The question is that what is interestin for me maybe not of great interest to some other designers…
Web Design is 95% Typography. Get Back to the Basics!
May 17, 200795% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logic to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
Many of nowadays so-called designers especially web designers have no professional education, but what is a professional education for a web designer. It’s not about Flash of HTML skills though they are also required. The basics is text design or Typography.
The Web’s Best Interface Design
May 17, 2007The article covers several Web 2.0 projects trying to focus on the best practices and techniques.
“The amount of new web applications, features, and companies sprouting up is just astounding, and while some like to characterize “Web 2.0″ design as involving lots of cliché diagonal lines and shadows it still takes a lot of skill to execute an attractive user interface.”
Author has list of Top 10 site designs and screenshots.
Designing Digg Labs
May 17, 2007How you ever wondered how DIgg labs were designed and developed. If – yes this interview is right for you! Though I’m not a big fan of Digg and Digg labs in particular, I liked the interview. Stamen talks about what makes digg labs work, as well as the other amazing projects Stamen is doing.
Check it out.
