An Idiot’s Guide To Accessible Website Design | Web Design Ledger

An Idiot’s Guide To Accessible Website Design | Web Design Ledger
If you are designing web sites in the UK, you probably already know that the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) mandates web sites be accessible by visually and physically disabled persons. But even if you work in a locale that doesn’t have any accessibility requirements yet, [...]

Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More | Webdesigner Depot

Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More | Webdesigner Depot

10 Volt Media Blog » Screencast: Install Internet Explorer on OSX using VirtualBox (updated X2) ~ Web and Print Design

10 Volt Media Blog » Screencast: Install Internet Explorer on OSX using VirtualBox (updated X2) ~ Web and Print Design
ross-platform browser testing shouldn’t be a pain in the ass. If, like me, you’re one of the growing number of designers and developers using an OS other than Windows, you need an IE testing environment. [...]

ZURB – 3 Ways to Add Depth to Any Website with CSS

ZURB – 3 Ways to Add Depth to Any Website with CSS

E-Commerce Web Design Toolbox

E-Commerce Web Design Toolbox

27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers | Graphics

27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers | Graphics
Starter kits are great timesavers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis. If you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets
So what’s in a starter kit? We think it varies – [...]

All the Small Icons You’ll Ever Need | Web Design Ledger

All the Small Icons You’ll Ever Need | Web Design Ledger
Big highly detailed icons make great eye candy, but small icons can be very useful when designing websites. They are great for styling lists and giving links visual flair that is eye catching and meaningful. It’s amazing what can be said visually in a 16 [...]

Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts? | CSS | Smashing Magazine

Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts? | CSS | Smashing Magazine
Fluid web designs have many benefits, but only if implemented correctly. With proper technique, a design can be seen correctly on large screens, small screens and even tiny PDA screens. With bad coding structure, however, a fluid layout can be disastrous. Because of this, [...]

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Nice Web Type Suggests: Graublau Sans with Lucida sanserif
How to demonstration page. Works in Safari and beta Firefox 3.5. IE requires a different file type.

Minimalist jQuery: 11 useful plugins under 4K

Minimalist jQuery: 11 useful plugins under 4K | jQuery Plugins | TRIF3CTA | Austin, TX
jQuery makes our lives easier. So much so that it’s tempting to use it all the time, inadvertently slowing our page load times (cue YSlow and Hammerhead). Combining, compressing, and delivering scripts at the end of your page helps in the [...]

Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

10 Creative & Rich UI interfaces & How to Create Them | Noupe

10 Creative & Rich UI interfaces & How to Create Them | Noupe

Texturise | Free Textures » Seamless Textures

Texturise | Free Textures » Seamless Textures
Seamless Textures

Photoshop and Illustrator Grid Templates | Konigi

Photoshop and Illustrator Grid Templates | Konigi
I moved the Photoshop and Illustrator templates for the Blueprint Grid System over from my personal blog at urlgreyhot to Konigi’s Tools section. So now you can make the most of the system I use here and go from sketch to wireframe, to visual design comp.
The complete tool kit [...]

A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids

A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids
Grids are a great way of laying content out on paper but until now they haven’t played well with the fluid methods of web design.