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- Curling Quotes in HTML, SGML, and XML
How to use curling (smart) quotes in your html document that conform to international standards.
Posted by Pantyboy on 7th May 2008
- Homer Simpson in CSS
Yep, you read that right, a complete rendering of Homer using only CSS. Awesome.
Posted by Rob on 2nd May 2008
- Lightbox JS
Add something more to your photo gallery. An alternative to the show enlarged image in a new window/pop-up.
Posted by suehami on 27th Apr 2008
- script.aculo.us
script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly. Some nifty scripts that include a drag n drop shopping cart app. and some nice sliding effects.
Posted by suehami on 27th Apr 2008
- 7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design
If you’re interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout - here’s some extremely useful tools that you can use to help. The sixrevisions.com site is another great site for articles on design and development in general, well worth a look round.
Posted by Rob on 22nd Apr 2008
- 7 Principles Of Effective Icon Design
Before approaching icon design there are some guidelines and principles that are worth studying. If you want to create effective icon designs, then you should take a holistic approach to issues such as: audience, size, simplicity, lighting, perspective, and style. This article gives you a good starting place for creating icons that work well together and fit seamlessly within your designs.
Posted by Rob on 16th Apr 2008
- Should Redesign?
Users who visit ShouldRedesign.com are presented with a website and cast their vote if they think the website should be redesigned or not. Like a 'Hot or Not' for websites.
Posted by Rob on 16th Apr 2008
- GridFox - The Grid Layout Firefox Extension
Grid-based layouts have become really popular among web designers over the last year. To help, here is a tasty extension for Firefox for those of us who love our grids.
Posted by Rob on 16th Apr 2008
- New features proposed for CSS
This week has seen the release of a raft of new proposals for features to be integrated into the CSS specification.
Posted by Rob on 10th Apr 2008
- Top 5 Freelancing Mistakes
Every freelancer will have their own stories to tell, here are mine. This article provides 5 issues highlighted by the author.
Posted by Rob on 10th Apr 2008
