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16. May 05
16. May 05
It’s good to see churches breaking out of the conservative mold when it comes to web design. Matthew Smith (artiswork.org) designer and author of TXP Mag, styled liberti.org. See for yourself what he came up with!
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd et al
Blog Design Solutions by Andy Budd et al
The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams
Professional CSS-Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design by Ch. Schmidt et al
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
CSS Pocket Reference by Eric Meyer
Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm
Cascading Style Sheets by Owen Briggs et al
2 weeks ago i saw an ad on television inviting the viewer to vote for the top dog of Germany. 2 years ago there was a show going on: Top Ten Germans ever! Einstein, Gutenberg or Albrecht Durer? These guys have nothing in common, did not even live in the same time, but folks let me tell you such Top lists are important!
What, for Gods sake would you do if you would not know your countrys top dog or top (historical) citizen? Yeah, the universe probably collapses over your heads and you are helplessly lost.
Top Ten lists bear a kind of magic in themselfes. People who deal with numerology argue: 1 is fulfilled in 10, which is 1 in existence, and the power underlying all existence – the “source and root of eternal nature.” 10 creates all things and is the kingdom or crown of God’s creation.
Christian cultures believe in the Ten Commandments. 10 disciples followed Jesus and soon Germany knows all about their top 10 dogs!
If you are a web developer or designer you are probably interested in the top ten web devs or designers. Arghh and it sucks if you are not on the list but your f**** neighbour is. Never mind, the net is full of top ten lists and chances are not so bad you eventually make it on one list. Fact ist, every clever blogger rolls out his/her top ten list once in a while. Don´t believe it? Here is the proof: toptentoptenlist.com.
I have to close this article now. My time is limited, do i have to go through the list of 100 dogs to find the top ten ones!
Important, important.
Hey web developer novices, here are some tools and apps you might not know yet. Check them out on the weekend.
Validation
TAW and WAVE are online-tools checking site´s accessibility.
CSS
CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in
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The one accessbility book to rule them all (so far).
Friends of Ed is known for producing fantastic books for Web professionals, but this book, written by eleven of the industry’s leading heads on the topic of accessibility is a complete certification process in 648 pages.
No, you don’t really get a certificate or anything, but you will be up to speed on every important accessibiity issue and then some if you read this book…
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You know you’re going to get a skewed picture when only one person does all the thinking on something like this, but none-the-less, its a well compiled list and fun to browse through to see some great design out there.
Top 55 web designers in the world
Feel free to add your own thoughts on who should have been on that list in the comments.
We are curious :). We like to know which your favourite Open Source CMS is. Select one of the suggested and vote or type in your preferred one (see orange bar…
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Its been a bit quiet around here, but we promise there is good stuff around the corner… To keep you hungry for more, here is a great resource from kapitza.com, Check it out
UPDATE While no longer free, the font is still relatively inexpensive for some nice outlines, at only 8 pounds (british). Great for illustration and logo work.
Just a couple of minutes ago, TXP 4.0.4 was released. Some nice news are: tagbuilder and UI are updated next to bugs and lots of other issues. Find the complete list of updates on the dev blog.
Thanks to wet (Robert Wetzlmayr) the Wikis taglist is more or less up to date too. Karsten Hesemann was so kind to update the german textpattern tag list.
This time many helping hands were involved in testing, sending patches and adding language files. Thanks to all who contributed!
Any aspiring Web designer who has ever sought a book on Photoshop has certainly stumbled upon one of the many comprehensive editions of 800+ pages that exist; but let’s be honest, who has ever tried consuming such a volume and not be overwhelmed, confused or frustrated?
A fresh exception is the recently published The Photoshop Anthology by Corrie Haffly; it’s a mere 272 pages, yet filled with helpful tutorials for the beginning Web designer. Corrie aims for quick success and she doesn’t let you down. Her book is …
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Over the last 36 months I have been growing my skills as a web designer and HTML and CSS coder. I’ve been reading all that I could get my hands on, but over the last few months in particular I began to see a deficiency in a part of my work. The deficiency became clearer as I learned more about “interaction design patterns”:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design_pattern and their use in interface design.
It was time to do the necessary reading to find out more about these patterns and how the best User Interface (hereafter referred to as UI) designers implemented them for the success of their application or website. It was with this felt need that I picked up Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design ...
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For everybody who likes the CMS ExpressionEngine this will be happy news: in October Jamie Pittock and friends launch a new online magazine called Jambor- EE.
Regular issues of the magazine will feature extensive tutorial series and articles on EE, while the team will be updating the magazine’s blog daily with tips, how-tos, news, and opinion.
Head on over to Jambor-EE and sign up.
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