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brian has written 26 posts for B2 Solutions

Home – Pencil Project

Hey, all you firefox users check this out. When putting together your wireframes or GUI designs try using the new tool from “Pencil Project”. It uses the Mozilla engine, it’s lightweight, and loads quickly. Instead of firing up illustrator, visio, or photoshop give this a try.     Home – Pencil Project

Readers’ Pick: 16 Sites for Web Design Inspiration – Six Revisions

Great list of sites for templates and general inspiration. I’ve been a big fan of OpenDesigns.org ever since I saw them mentioned in a HOBO screencast. Readers’ Pick: 16 Sites for Web Design Inspiration – Six Revisions

15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages – Six Revisions

Great list of tools to help in designing web pages. I use Firebug a lot and love it. Yslow is great as well. I’ll have to find some time to give these others a try. 15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages – Six Revisions

Firebug – Web Development Evolved » Blog Archive » Firebug 1.2b1

Yeah, the firebug addon for firefox3 is almost available. I’ve found that I’ve become very dependent on this little tool and it’s not being available in firefox3 is one of the things that has stopped me from upgrading. It looks like the guys at http://getfirebug.com have almost got this working. Nice work guys. Firebug – [...]

Etsy :: CraftyHedgehog :: Knitting in Biology 101

his is very cool. For all of you that might not be aware, there’s a great site on the web called Etsy. It’s kind of like Amazon for hand crafted items.  I buy stuff from there often, because A) I like to support individual artists and B) a lot of there stuff is so much [...]

JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT)

Wow!! I’m really excited about this one. Nicolas Belmonte has created an awesome javascript library that focuses on visualizations. This uses JQuery as the base engine and so far I’m pretty impressed. Nicolas apparently wrote most of this library from scratch, and so far I’m very impressed and having a lot of fun with this. [...]

Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch

For all you would be site designers who have that amazing PSD of the site you’d like to have, but just aren’t quite sure how to go to the next step. Of if you don’t have a design yet, but would love to work through the steps of creating your photoshop wireframe and then converting [...]

The “You Suck at Photoshop” Guys Revealed!

For all of you that have been following the “You suck at photoshop” series the two guys behind it have finally been revealed. Some people thought it was Dane Cook. While that would have been interesting to see another side of that guy, I didn’t think it was very likely. If you haven’t had a [...]

7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design | Six Revisions

The guys over at SixRevisions.com have done a great job of summarizing some great tools for working with your website. For any of you who have only used Google analytics in the past I would recommend checking out some of these other great tools. Especially CrazyEgg and Yslow. Many of these tools offer a free [...]

Digital Web Magazine – Web Design 101: Photoshop

Some of us have been using photoshop for a while now, but recently I joined a Meetup group whose members have varying experience with photoshop. About the same time my wife got her first Mac laptop so I installed an older version of photoshop for her. The thing about both the web group and my [...]

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