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Monthly Archive:
November, 2009

A pictogram is a graphical symbol that can represent a sign or even, simple instructions, in essence, a concept that has been stripped down to its bare essentials, yet still recognizable as the original idea.
Pictograms can be of help with usability and accessibility on your web site. It is a universal language, everyone understands and can read the icons.

With it being Thanksgiving this week, I never expected such an abundance of great web designs. Anyway, here are this weeks inspirational web design selection.
Send us a recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our review), by clicking here…

At this moment, the iPhone and the HTC Hero are, quite possibly, the coolest, feature rich and the most advanced commercial mobile phones available. What is next, though? What is the next step in mobile evolution?
In todays post we have ten mobile phone concepts that are not only technologically advanced, but look damn good as well. Can you imagine yourself in the next five years having a mobile like the ones below?

The main reason web sites are built is so that they are functional to be USED. It’s a simple as that. They are tools, references and resources, nothing more. And as web designers, we need to always remember that.
Designing a web site needs to be about the user and only for the user and every possible need of said user has to have been foreseen and catered for. Only then can a web site be usable. That is what USABILITY is.
Ok, that might be the worst description of web usability that you have ever read, but I am sure you get the point. Usability is important. Very important. The most important.

The submit news section seems to have been going into overdrive in the last few weeks. I took a couple of days off last week, and came back to find 400+ submitted news resources, thanks for all the great links. This weeks Twitter design news post is much larger than previous weeks, as it will be from now on. I have a total of 48 fresh design related resources, and have separated them into the following categories: Tutorials and Learning, Inspirational Articles, Good Reading, Wallpapers and Icons and, most importantly, Fresh Resources.

Wireframing is one of the best parts of starting a new web design project. You have a blank canvas and you are allowed to let your creativity rein free. Your design may eventually be spoiled by the clients added input… but for that short time …

This is our selection of reader recommended and sites that I have discovered in the past week. There is a lot of new high quality web designs around this week, I hope you like them.
Send us a recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our review), by clicking here…

Why would you ever need to optimize (or optimise, which ever spelling you prefer) or reFormat your CSS? Optimizing your CSS will not only allow your web page to load quicker, it also increases the durabilty and resilience of your site when there is a spike in visitors (i.e. the Digg effect) and, for me, the most importantly part is that it gives you more readable code (I am a very messy code writer).

Unlike other web design styles that can use larger images to compliment the design, Magazine is limited to being designed within the parameters that the content (namely, the text and the occasional thumbnail) dictates, and that is were the problem lies. How do you design a web site that is purely text and make it visual eye candy?

Again, we have another selection of cool resources that we have tweeted about in the past week.
If you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not hesitate to send them to us here…

You don’t need to be a hardcore coder or developer to use jQuery, it is an easy and useful JavaScript library and with basic knowledge you can easily insert jQuery plugins and spruce up your next web project.
Font Embedding Services are all the rage at the moment, and for some, maybe a little bit overblown. What if you wanted something simpler, a little drop-shadow here, a simple text animation or even dynamically resize text. In this post we have collected 20+ simple and easy to use jQuery text effects and animations.

The single page portfolio/bio sites is becoming more and more popular, a trend started by Tim Van Damme, with Marvin Y. Thomas and Oscar Barbers sites excelling in this style. Overall, it has been a strong week for great web designs, keep them coming. Oh, happy fifth birthday Firefox!

Although posters as a concept have been used for many centuries, in traditional art years, poster design is a relatively new. It has only been in the last 100 years that poster design has been elevated and recognized as an art-form, and has gained the kind of popularity that no other design category can rival.

The most important factor for minimal to work well, as it should be with all design styles (but, not always the case), is the content. Without good writing or a strong portfolio, the style has no impact and the web design looks cheap. And that is the key to minimal, in the hands of a skilled web designer, they know that the site design has to accentuate the content, and the content, in return, accentuates the web design.

As per usual, in this weeks Twitter Design News Round-Up we have some great web design tips, tutorials and resources, including a magnificent HTML5 reference. We also have a couple of great Photoshop tutorials and a few odd-ball resources which should amuse you.

Werther you are a CSS guru or a CSS novice you will always need some help, some resources, some tutorials, some references and, of course, some cheat sheets. In this article we have collected the best resources for answering all possible CSS questions as well as how to understand CSS and how to use it properly. There are also CSS property references, cheat sheets, not only typical cheat sheets, but also cheat sheets for CSS frameworks, conversion tables and CSS short hand.

This is week 15 of our wed design inspiration round-up, and it has been a good week. I am loving the clean 31Three redesign and the dark simplicity of Friendly Ducks site, this weeks flash designs, as always, are rich full of creativity and oddly enough, a lot of yellow.

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