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Particletree: Visualizing Fitts’s Law +
Steve Yegge: Business Requirements are Bullshit +
What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface design guidelines +
ilovetypography.com: An interview with Nikola Djurek +
Twitter blog: Changes for Some SMS Users—Good and Bad News +
UserFriendly: I need a Web site +
Seth Godin: The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue) +
One More Level: Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 3 +
BBC — Britain From Above +
The Amen Break (via emptyhead) +
Wired: Wooden Sci-Fi Sculptures Make Great Geek Art +
wget for Mac OS X Leopard +
Pucca +
We All Love Typography, 50+ typography samples (via Mr. Moll) +
Liz Danzico: It’s Not You; It’s Me — overview of newsletter unsubscribe processes +
The Urban Legend of Corporate Intranets: ... one of the original myths: an effective content management system will turn everyone into articulate and succinct writers. +
Mercer's 2008 Cost of Living survey highlights +
Beyond the Village via zyt +
Cameron Moll: The In-House Designer +
Seth Godin: Are they ready to listen? +
College Humor: Font Conference +
The State of the Web - Summer 2008 +
Copyblogger: How to Be Interesting +
Web.start 08 presentation videos +
Conference FAIL +
Daily Writing Tips: 13 Ways to Make a Freelance Living +
Opera Web Standards Curriculum +
Bembo's Zoo, the picture abecedary book +
David Weiss: Management +
Check out the web.burza blog +
Building a dual MySQL 4.1 and MySQL 5 dev environment in OS X 10.5 Leopard +
Food submissions @ Wired +
How do we read online. +
Local PHP developers: Webtrend hires +
Khoi Vinh: Spacing Is Everything +
Legibility in Typography +
Improved SEO documentation galore +
HTML Form Buttons Padding Demo +
Touch Typing Tool +
An Insurgency of Quality +
The Right Brain vs Left Brain test +
goosh.org — the unofficial google shell +
How Hard Could it Be?: Adventures in Office Space +
I’m so buying Wii Fit +
New Google favicon +
d.j. lekke realigns his photo galleries from nightlife, parties and clubbing. +
No more color missmatch: Color management for web designers and developers and Color Management Amendment +
Keyboard Shortcut Skins for Macs +
Essential UX video: The Science and Art of User Experience at Google +
More watercolor, ink-splashing awesomeness: Street Fighter IV trailer (via emptyhead) +
Watercolor goodness: Stina Persson +
Six fashion designers unveil this season’s collection of couture car covers. +
I'm a big fan of Wordpress, but I wondered. Why ExpressionEngine Should Be Your Next CMS +
The Ampersand blog about ampersands. +
Photoshop Disasters (via) +
Fontburner lets you embed (non-commercial) fonts with sIFR, by simply c/p the provided code. +
Web design superhero mascots: Nivas Guardians +
Seth Godin: Proximity to pain +
THE SHTANZIG features elastic layout with a lovely use of Impact. +
Portfolio: clandrei Unternehmenskommunikation +
Online social networks Everywhere and Nowhere +
.htaccess tips & tricks: My Webapplication Firewall Tutorial +
Office Design Gallery +
Shaun Inman: CSS qualified selectors +
Superawesome Blog: What is web design? +
Make Monday the new Sunday +
Concept living space only 2.4 meters (7 feet 10 inches) wide: sculp(IT) +
Google translates to Croatian +
Parkour Generations: NYC +
The Stats Are In. YouTube Really Is A Turd (via zyt) +
Ask H&FJ : Ampersand (via DF) +
My photo stolen for a global wide Lee campaign! (via lekke) +
5ThirtyOne: WordPress 2.3+ official support for custom database error page. I always missed this, but didn’t know it exists. +
Push. Click. Touch. +
Joel Spolsky: Fire and Motion +
The Wrong Way to Lock a Bike +
I Love Typography: The Rather Difficult Font Game +
Design Intellection: This is How You Get sIFR to Work +
How I fixed my WP image/media uploader and general wp-admin problems in 2.5.1 +
NETTUTS, a little sister of excellent PSDTUTS +
Css Globe: 4 Uber Cool Css Techniques For Links +
For those of us who always wanted to try driving a digger: Diggerland (via zyt) +
WP Remix: WordPress as CMS +
From the original creators of stylegala.com: DevKick redesign. Via Rainfall +
32 Amazing Inspirational Pieces of Graphic Artwork +
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. +
The history of computer data storage, in pictures +
Browser font rendering and antialiasing — Windows vs. Mac +
A PHP script for removing Thumbs.db, .DS_Store, MacOS hidden and other annoying files +
aplus momenti Easy going, crisp and light. +
LifeHacker — ask the readers: Best First Programming Language to Learn?. “The more I hear about people automating things with scripts and programs they write themselves, the more it seems that being able to write code is a good skill to have—at any job. I'm not a programmer, but I'm interested in maybe becoming one. What's the best language for someone who's savvy but still very much a beginner to learn?” +
Nathan Smith: 960 Grid System Framework +
WordPress 2.5 Brecker +
Activate The Death Ray is a Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008. Go on, sign-in! +
Vitamin: Subversion for Designers +
Cameron Moll: The Highly Extensible CSS Interface ~ The Series +
Adobe Developer Connection: Adding Adobe Captivate movie clips to a PDF file +
My Mac Loves VMware: Team Fusion +
Boxes and Arrows: Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience +
Web Designer Wall: jQuery for Designers (via) +
Bob Bly Blog: Are Your Clients Ignorant and Arrogant? +
Stand-alone W3C validator: Validator S.A.C. +
Internet Explorer 8 Beta Readiness Toolkit +
37signals: Workplace Experiments +
Jon Tan: The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS +
Wake Up Later: 10 Absolute "Nos!" for Freelancers +
Two noteworthy modal boxes: Lightview and Facebox +
Flickr-like photo notes +
How to See the World in Words
(ty, zyt) +
Information Architects Japan: From Yahoo to Yafoo, plus a bonus insight in the Japanese business culture. +
Threadless on Flickr: Pinewood Derby +
SFGate home page preview +
Chris Messina: Shared work spaces a wave of the future +
Paleo-Future: Rhapsody of Steel Film (1959) +
zytzagoo: Make your search boxes (inputs) smarter with Javascript: Search_Box behavior +
D. Keith Robinson: How I GTD +
tiinker blog: Less is more +
Wedding Photos We'll All Remember (via) +
Veerle Pieters: What is Graphic Design Poster Competition rules and the gallery. +
Better Than Free +
Shaun Inman: Geometry of the Mint logo +
Cameron Moll: Overcoming blankcanvasphobia +
SitePoint: CSS Reference +
Cody Lindley: JavaScript Ant +
Bokardo.com: Personas and the Advantage of Designing for Yourself +
zytzagoo.net: Extracting images from HTML using regular expressions +
Copyblogger: One Simple Way to Generate More Comments on Your Blog. +
mi3 forums: Tipografia with After Effects. +
Beautiful portfolio: Martin Laksman. +
iA: Trendmap3 Countdown: 2008 Predictions +
New Lancer Sedan and Evolution (Gracias Zytzagoo). +
GTalk translator +
CSS Eleven is an international group of visual web designers and developers who are committed to helping the W3C’s CSS Working Group to better deliver the tools that are needed to design tomorrow’s web. +
Create favicons online. +
Mac OS X essential software: Default Folder X 4.0 for Leopard. The upgrade is free if you purchased lately. +
Claim your DivX Pro Licence (Limited time offer) +
Typing game for bit-literate users — TickerType for Mac and PC (via Mackorisnik) +
Your Safari on Leopard crashes unexpectedly? Download Flash Player Beta +
Garrett Dimon: Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay’s Registration +
456 Berea Street: Virtual hosts, PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard +
Yesterdayishere: Classy Amp, the typographic WordPress enhancer. +
Jeff Croft: The new layers of web development, not from a mouth of a talker, but from a man from the trenches. Good job, solider! +
Jeff Croft: Tools do not a designer make +
John Gruber: Apple Needs a Nikon +
Leopard UI tips: Leopard Dock with black triangle, Leopard UI Tweaks. +
Six Common Punctuation Errors that Bedevil Bloggers and newly found Daily Writing Tips +
Croatian history in comic books. +
Hello Media: If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers! +
EIZO FlexScan SX3031W — two computers on a single screen. +
The Best “Out-Of-Office” E-Mail Auto-Replies +
Streamlining Design Discussions Using the Decider Protocol. What percentage of meetings do you come out of thinking “that was extremely useful”? Whether they?re about design or technology, meetings are often a waste of time! If only it was easier to allow everyone to participate while keeping the discussion down to a minimum? That’s where the decider protocol comes in. (via) +
MyPatience.net is online solitaire site. Completely made with JavaScript, games can be played even on a corporate machines. Useful if you are assistant under the restrictive corporate IT policy. +
Nice Web Type, one place for web typography +
50 Great Virb Designs +
Legendary Aircraft — beautiful web site for beautiful machines. +
Tablecloth is lightweight, easy to use, unobtrusive way to add style and behavior to your html table elements. +
Handmade Bonsai pots. +
Flickermood, experimental typographic animations +
‘Clik here’ link Simple Word Change in Email Hyperlink Raises Clicks 8.53% (via Copyblogger) +
Amazing Things Blog +
Simplebits: Field Notes on Flickr +
Stuff and Nonsense on clients: THIS is how to supply content +
Don’t miss this Fall: ~~Photoshop~~ Layer Tennis at Coudal.com +
Shaun Inman: Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM +
Ryan Nichols, Designing the “Future Of” Sites: Our first deliverable for the project was a brand strategy document. Don’t let the fancy name fool you—it just means we communicated the results of our meeting, our research findings, and our resulting recommendations. Providing this document is really about building client trust in our process and removing the random feeling from design decisions. From that point forward we would be on the same page about what we were trying to accomplish. +
Zemanta, Content Intelligence for Everyone +
40+ Books For Professional Design & Development +
web.burza: Big Brother, 4th season in Croatia +
E, TextMate for Windows. +
Accessible News Slider is a JavaScript plugin built for the jQuery library. By Brian Reindel. +
Laura Alter: Using Psychology to Create a Killer Sticky Website +
Sitemap Styler: Style your Sitemaps with CSS and Javascript +
Lovely Little Snitch is 2.0b +
Google Earth Flight Simulator. Beware, it’s addictive! +
Web.burza is looking for web designer and client-side developer. If you are settled in Zagreb and you’re looking for a job in one of the industry’s most creative environments, drop ‘em your CV. +
VideoJug: How To Avoid Trapped Arm Whilst Cuddling In Bed +
Jeff Croft: On standards, Web Standards, and “standardistas“. A must read. Now. +
LukeW: Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms +
Mugs with color matching guide +
SVN plugin for Finder: SCPlugin 0.7. “Big stuff here. In summary: we think SCPlugin is now ready to be your one-and-only Subversion interface.” +
45 Excellent Blog Designs +
On Dealing with Head Hunters. +
The Dilbert Blog: Invent This Product +
A List Apart: CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thing +
SlideShowPro + SlideShowPro Director are available free for current users of either product. See what’s new. +
Scalable web architectures. +
Christian Montoya: My advice to anyone planning to become a web developer +
8 ways to drive a graphic designer mad +
The Cost of Losing a Developer +
Claim: The planet Mars will make a once-in-our-lifetimes, remarkably close approach to Earth on 27 August 2007. Status : False. +
Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards +
30 Apps to Run your Business By, via Davor Peić +
I love typography, new typography blog in the block. +
Tutorial Blog: Cool Workspaces +
New Window Link script is updated. Grab it! +
For those on shared hosting, myIPneighbors IP search is a great way to find out who your neighbors are or just to see how many other websites your hosting company hosts your server. +
The book Mobile Web Design is coming out next Tuesday. Grab your copy on the first day and enter an iPhone competition. +
Lider Press: Web standardi — kljuèni za uspjeh na internetu, a small contribution to a broader adoption of web standards here in Croatia. +
Did you know? (via) +
New iMac +
VMware Fusion is out of beta +
The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard by Information Architects Japan +
Andy Rutledge: Professional Thinking +
Wow! Great navigation concept at nonstep radio +
YouTube: Jim Carrey does David Caruso +
YUI 2.3.0: Six New Components and a Prettier Face. See the rte editor +
Robert Davies: Spoors +
Remove unwanted people from public photos with CS3 or manually. +
Xslimmer — your mac on a diet has a new homepage +
XRAY is a bookmarklet for Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla. Use it to see the box model for any element. +
QBN Sessions — One day multidisciplinary creative lecture +
Cinquecento anyone? +
Information Architects Japan: iA webtrend map 2007 +
LightWindow v2.0 +
Chris Heilmann: Thinking lowsrc – how to make sites appear to be available a lot faster +
Jakob Nielsen: Write Articles, Not Blog Postings +
Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design +
Form Development Best Practice Slides +
Get Your Blog Out of Google's Supplemental Result Hell +
HTML 5 differences from HTML 4, Editor's draft +
Wicked HTML skills (via zyt) +
Beautiful Anna Nicole font +
em calc, CSSTYPE v2 +
Joe Clark, wanker designer +
TouchGraph Google Browser +
Beatbox Fame Game +
Distinguished Characters, My Fonts special publication +
Ice Standard 7... from Veer +
YUI Theater — Karo Caran and Victor Tsaran: “Introduction to Screen Magnifiers” +
Joel Spolsky: Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering +
WWDC 2007 Keynote News, insight by John Gruber +
Mobile Web Developer’s Guide at dev.mobi +
Another successful acquisition: Jeff Croft moves to Seattle +
Safari public beta 3, for Windows, too +
Pretty amusing online presentation by ClubInternet +
Cameron Adams: Fancy Form Design Using CSS +
Font Rendering Across Rich Platforms +
Simple Date and Time Localization With JavaScript +
Bathroom Conceal Shelf +
Read regular combats dyslexia +
Guy Kawasaki visited Threadless: Guy Is Nude No More +
Jina Bolton: Breaking Out of the Box +
StarCraft II, XML site styled with XSL. Love the negative kerning on uppercase Arial Black. +
Bartelme Deep Blue Wallpaper +
Boxes and Arrows: Comics: Not just for laughs! +
Rediscovering the Button Element +
Milk, a dream desk +
Nice animated GIFs for you preloading purposes. +
Killer desktop: apple wing! +
CSSTYPE – web safe typography on screen +
Stripe Generator 2.0 +
Alexander Kjerulf: 8 random tips for making your startup company happy and successful +
New The Big Noob +
Croatian designers go standards: SundayLounge +
Online communities map (via) +
Web typography: Named versus Numeric Entities +
Tetris furniture (via) +
Nivas is web design and new media studio from Zagreb. If you’re web standards aware web developer from Croatia, looking for a full time activity, drop ‘em a line. +
Web developer rides on train joke +
Text resize with sIFR +
Typeface of the month: Motorcross Pro +
Campaign Monitor blog: A Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition +
Portfolio.com is beautiful, it’s tableless, but sadly without a single heading element. +
Grindhouse, the movie. +
Making forms simple: Uni-Form by Dragan Babiæ +
Veerle Pieters: The bathtub becomes furniture +
Greg Storey: Swedish; Hewlett-Packard, that personal computer maker that wants to be so hip it hurts, has announced they have acquired Logoworks, a company that sells clip art as logos. +
Roger Johansson: How to prevent HTML tables from becoming too wide +
How to Get the Attention of a Venture Capitalist +
Guy Kawasaki: The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog +
CSS: Reworked Reset and Reset Reasoning @ Meyerweb +
Dustin Diaz: Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today +
How to choose your hotel room with CSS and JavaScript +
I’m seriously reconsidering fatboy the original +
12 essential facts, formulas, and photographic rules (via swissmiss) +
Interesting UTF lines, blocks and shapes +
ALA: The Web Design Survey, 2007 +
Elegant Web Typography (PDF) by Jeff Croft +
TimesOnline, another successfully redesigned news portal +
SEOmoz: Google Search Engine Ranking Factors +
12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them +
Get the Best Price on Full-Versions of CS3 +
Threadless Kids: it’s Threadless, just for kids. +
Like beat boxes? See this +
Code Style font sampler – participate in the font survey +
Web Typography Sucks – slides and notes from SxSW 2007 +
Deskload is a very well made desktop-like online bookmark manager/organizer. Give it a try! +
Asirra, the CAPTCHA alternative? +
6 Tools for Web Design and don’t forget the comments +
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird +
Cute typography at new garrettdimon.com +
Artwork of the weekend: cheekyDsn +
Web 2.0... The Machine is Us/ing Us +
Fotolog overtaking Flickr? +
Faraway Letters vs. Hellgate: London. WTF?!?? And check the copy in the footer : ) +
2 color sIFR on T-mobile UK Disabled Customers page. Site is developed by Ars Art. +
Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany +
How to detect quirks mode with JavaScript? Here’s how: Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer (ty zyt) +
Elegant Star Pattern Pack. If you like background pattern on this site, this might be interesting to you. +
Veer 365 screen saver +
Ads in Captchas – image verification in web forms as a marketing tool. +
Select tag overlap in IE: The dropdowns work great until select elements (dropdown list boxes) are added to a form. The menus go under the select elements when viewed in IE. Ever saw that? Tanny O’Haley fixed it. +
Samsung BlackJack with Windows Mobile 5.0 +
Design-Feed is a design feed aggregator. They hand-pick the most interesting design related RSS feeds and present them in an easy-to-browse format. +
WDDG 2006. +
Compose to a Vertical Rhythm by Richard Rutter +
Top Web Apps in Croatia +
Imagination Cubed – share ideas, draw with frends, send sketches to your sweetheart. +
Useful ASP Functions Library, similar to PHP built-in functions +
Cleaning up the basement: Forgotten Times +
Anziano Ornaments. See a sample mockup +
Mini icon collection @ Brand Spanking New (via swissmiss) +
The inbox makeover, tips on handling your mailbox +
Really Simple History, browser history handler for AJAX based applications +
Storyville, coffee company +
JavaScript Tidbits by Cody Lindley +
Ultimate htaccess Article +
Insert HTML page into another HTML page +
CSS Zen Garden entry #200 +
hush motion portfolio, via Duke +
Woodpixel is the perfect gift for every pixel junkie this Christmas (the skul and the ghost are kings). +
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke +
Form design: Label Placement in Forms, Web Application Form Design and Visible Narratives +
Dragan Babić writes in English, too +
Popular topic latelly, especially among novices: Font formats. +
9 JavaScript Tips You May Not Know +
Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup +
Bulleted Lists Only is fine example of markup abuse +
BrowsrCamp lets you preview your web page in Safari. +
IE 7 and JavaScript: what needs to be fixed? +
tweedlebop - the art of michael fleming +
kapitza/shop/fonts/east end +
Web design is 95% typography, said guys from iA. +
Five Simple Steps to designing with colour by Mark Boulton +
7 Habits of a Highly Successful Freelance Web Designer +
How Much Should a Design Cost? +
The unfortunate death of Helvetica by Andrei Herasimchuk +
Volderette is relevant graphic/web/videodesign blog (in German) +
aplus moments: fresh look for the legendary blog +
Advanced Typography techniques using CSS +
IE7: Old Bugs For New +
Toilet in Houston made entirely out of one-way glass. +
Typesetting Tip: Spaces +
Lost in illustration – Japanese illustration is one of the artistic genres available at Veer +
Jealous +
How to make XmlHttpRequest calls to another server in your domain +
IE7 RC1 standalone version +
@media 2007 announced. +
Seven pages of ‘design’ wallpapers on Flickr +
Emanuel Blagonic – another talent from Pula, Croatia. +
“Julia Fullerton-Batten is rapidly developing a reputation as one of the leading young photographers in UK” (via blackduke) +
Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic vs. Wanderlei Silva +
Beautiful portfolio with nice typography: Panama Bowler +
Pablo Francisco – great standup comedy. +
Zion Church PCA – another great church web site. +
Optimising images for web (detailed comparation table included) +
Girl vs Pig a weekly webcomic +
Alex Sancho – beautifully crafted blog +
nterface – something a little bit different +
Writing comparator enables you to preview fonts intalled on your local computer. Uses the method similar to Typetester’s to retrieve local fonts list. +
Pixelpusher is new! +
456 Berea Street redesigned by Veerle Pieters +
Dnevnik eklektika is v.05! +
Lego shadows +
Ryan Terry's Ry-guy.com – daily dose of illustrations +
The unborn chikken – fonts & photoshop brushes from Norway +
Tubatomic – I love the curly braces +
Iconfactory v.6 +
Alaska Fish House, lettering design by Mark Simonson +
The Elements of Style for Designers @ Boxes and Arrows +
Online Image Editors Compared +
Another method of checkbox/radio styling +
Show / Hide Solution and noscript element +
The horizontal way – horizontal scrolling, baby! +
Farlow Studios redesigned +
Meet me at the 2. Red Bull Flugtag, Jarun, Zagreb, Croatia. +
Parc Rittenhouse condos +
Dean Edwards: window.onload updated +
TakeMySoul by lekke +
Bartelme: Spring Cleaning +
Kurier – Austria’s daily newspapers +
Beautifully hand-crafted Splashy Fish +
Douglas Bowman goes to Google +
Simple, yet effective – CSS Maintenance Tip: Use a Color Glossary +
Cameron Moll: Dealing with “bad logos” +
Easy CSS hacks for IE7 +
Daily dose of portfolios: Daniel Bretzmann, NOS, Just for the F of it +
Pixelpusher is new! +
what if is Belgian marketing/communication studio +
the.ronin, a great portfolio by Rob Chiu +
Tonèi Zonjiæ – young and promising illustrator from Croatia +
Opening new windows with JavaScript +
DOM/JavaScript: UTF entities in document.createTextNode +
More realigns: YesterdayIsHere & SimpleBits +
Mike Rundle redesigns Business Logs and himike.org. +
New JeffCroft.com! +
FWA Review, Best Web Agency Sites +
I'm oogly – T-shirt by Empty +
Type: Eason – excellent italics and small-caps by Randy Jones +
Cameron Moll Portfolio +
Beautiful Girls at Zagreb Auto Show by Mirko Beoviæ +
DOMTab - Navigation tabs with CSS and DOMscripting +
Image Cross Fader – JavaScript cross fader +
Borja.org – another fine Croatian blog +
Veerle’s blog – Veerle's blog now 2.0 – Oh. My. God! +
herbiv.org – independent veg e-zine +
Dilbert: Software requirements +
Escaping regular expression characters in JavaScript +
An argument for “weighted” customer ratings +
Storyboarding Rich Internet Applications with Visio +
newzealand.com – the official site for NZ travel & business +
Hyperstrike personal trainer +
exljbris – the library of Jos Buivenga +
Know your type – starting points for typographic inspiration +
Vertical-Align Misuse – Everything you always wanted to know about vertical alignment +
Turntables.de – good ole D.J.in’ (Flash 4 required) +
DomNews – Dynamic News Upscroller with DOM and CSS and XHTML and Accessibility and other things like that... it’s that thingy clients often fall in love with. +
Web Standards Quiz – how fast are you? +
bangkok2® - Thailand Creative & Design Blog +
ILOVEDZN – a blog from Portugal made with Flash. Plenty of cool details. +
CSS Gif Hover Animation +
Removing Dotted Links in Firefox. The CSS way.