Archive for the ‘News’ Category
News Round up: UI Design, Web fonts, Improve your language skills
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I haven’t done a link round up in a bit but there have been some awesome articles around lately so I’ll pass them on. The Little Things in UI Design First up is a great article on the little things in User Interface design from Smashing magazine. It really is the little things that make [...]
Interesting Links: CSS trickery
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
CSS Image Trickery Both of these articles come from the newest addition to my RSS feeds sohtanaka.com. First off is an article on adding effects to images with some CSS and HTML. Pretty neat and shows much of what you can do without encasing the entire effect in an image. The second article from sohtanaka.com [...]
The News: IE 8 may not suck and the freelancer bootcamp
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
What I feel is the biggest news of the day is the fact that IE 8 now passes the Acid 2 test. So it may be that we won’t hate IE as much in the future. Admittedly we will still have to wait for IE 6 to die. Over at Freelancer Magazine there has been [...]
The News: IE to use Webkit & Staying creative
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Well here is an interesting development. In a recent developers conference in Sydney Steve Ballmer said that “Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that.” This is very interesting as the rendering in IE sucks currently and Webkit is awesome. I know that for all web designers it would be a wonderful thing [...]
The News: Firefox is alive, seo, and some marketing advice
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Today is a great day for web designer’s. It seems that Firefox is finally over 20% of the market share in browsers. Firefox is awesome, and it is wonderful to see it reach this milestone. Hopefully this really pushes IE to be standards compliant instead of the PITA that all web designers are familiar with. [...]
The Daily News: WordPress 2.7 and pricing your projects
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
How about we start the day with some twitter inspiration. Use the link to check out some creative twitter backgrounds and get some inspiration for designing your own. I know mine could sure use a refresh. Next up today is some feature previews for WordPress 2.7, which I am really excited about. Overall the interface [...]
The Daily News: Google custom search and getting more clients
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
How many of us have used the built in search for a site and found it to be horrid? I know that a site I am currently working on has what I feel is an unusable search function. In fact the results are so bad I think it’s better if they aren’t even there. So [...]
The Daily News: Productive coding and cool shoes
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
We’ll start off today with a link for all programmers on how to be more productive. The one that I loved was using something like textexpander (Mac) or texter (Windows) for coding. Remember this is not just for coding. I set it up for my email signature the name of the place I work fulltime… [...]
The Daily News: Keeping clients, javascript and an interview
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Keeping Clients Around Once you do the hard work of landing a client you always want to keep them. Repeat work for good clients is always a bit easier. If you want some tips on those little things that keep clients around check out this article on Freelance Switch. It lists 3 easy ways to [...]
The Daily News: Stolen designs, site conversion, and usability
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Let’s start today with an article from Freelance Switch (FSW) on Intellectual Property Resources. All of us designers get worried about our design work getting stolen. It seems that when this happens it’s hard to do much about it. The list provided by FSW gives you places to find your legal rights. Second up is [...]
