Great checklist to refer to when designing your website. This is clear and smart and non-opinionated. Worth the read.
15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have | Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers
Any of you that know me know I’m a big fan of the Wordpress blogging platform. The platform is so flexible and so widely adopted that labeling it as a blogging only platoform is no longer valid.
For many people, extending wordpress is a daunting task. The idea of writing a plugin or knowing how to [...]
Spend any time with me at all talking about building and designing websites and Firebug will come in the conversation, I promise. Firebug is a killer plugin for Firefox focused on inspecting and modifying html/css/javascript code in the browser.
If you haven’t used Firebug, the group over at Webmonkey have put together a tutorial. Check it [...]
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
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
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 - Web [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]