The Life and Death of Design (from kopozky.net)
By Saeid on July 21, 2011 at 8:55 PM PST, Last updated on July 21, 2011 at 9:00 PM PST, Comments
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Browser Wars by Galit Weisberg
By Saeid on July 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM PST, Last updated on July 10, 2011 at 10:55 AM PST, Comments
Design Guidelines for Our Creative Partners
By Saeid on February 5, 2011 at 11:04 PM PST, Last updated on February 13, 2011 at 10:53 PM PST, Comments
- A sitemap is required and should answer these questions:
- How many pages exist in the Website?
- How each page is reached?
- Which template does each page use?
- Mockups submitted for review must be in PDF format.
- Mockups submitted as final design must be in PSD or AI format.
- Rasterize text layers in mockups when you want them to be cut as graphic. Text layers that are not reasterized would be kept as HTML text.
- All fonts that are not default Windows or Mac fonts must be submitted in TrueType or OpenType formats. See a list of fonts that do not require submission here.
- Use pixel as unit of measurement in your design comps.
- Use rounded pixel values in your layout. For example instead of making a sidebar 179px wide, make it 180px wide.
- If there is more than one page mocked up in a single Photoshop file, then assign a layer comp to each page. This would make it easy for developers to see each page and bring that page to initial state after they have changed layers settings during slicing.
HTML5 For Web Designers
By Saeid on July 23, 2010 at 9:00 PM PST, Last updated on July 24, 2010 at 7:50 PM PST, Comments
Jeremy Keith's new book "HTML5 For Web Designers" is now available for purchase from A Book Apart's online store.
Age of Persuasion on CBC Radio
By Saeid on June 26, 2010 at 9:00 PM PST, Last updated on August 1, 2010 at 6:01 PM PST, Comments
Age of Persuasion is an insightful and humorous program on advertising and branding from CBC radio and hosted by Terry O'Reilly. Each episode is around 30 minutes long and focused on one aspect of advertising from use of slogans to negative advertising to ad regulations, etc. There are no podcasts available yet, but previous episodes are available as audio streams here.
Dive Into HTML5 Book Free Online
By Saeid on June 15, 2010 at 8:36 PM PST, Last updated on July 29, 2010 at 12:09 PM PST, Comments
Dive Into HTML5 is a book by Mark Pilgrim available for free at: http://diveintohtml5.org/ and can also be pre-ordered from Amazon. The online version showcases good use of HTML5 such as using new CSS3 font rules to render headings in a non-standard typeface.
Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers
By Saeid on June 5, 2010 at 9:05 AM PST, Last updated on July 16, 2011 at 6:45 AM PST, Comments
- ColorZilla
- DOM Inspector
- FireShot
- User Agent Switcher
- Web Developer
- Firebug
- FoxClocks (if you have clients in different time zones)
Books for Web Designers/Front-end Developers
By Saeid on December 4, 2009 at 7:45 AM PST, Comments
JavaScript, ActionScript, CSS:
- Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock
- DOM Scripting, Jeremy Keith
- PPK on JavaScript by Peter-Paul Koch
- Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web by Hakon Lie & Bert Bos
- Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith
Interview with Paul Rand
By Saeid on November 8, 2009 at 8:15 AM PST, Last updated on June 19, 2010 at 7:04 PM PST, Comments
A 1991 interview with legendary graphic designer Paul Rand, creator of logos for IBM, ABC-TV, Westinghouse, UPS and hundreds more. Don't miss Part 2 and Part 3.