A video demo and Python-GTK script of a new kind of scrollbar that should be faster to use and look more neat.

Thanks to drew Roberts for helping me with ponunciation, it would be worse without him

A fantastic guide to Search Engine Optimization for Web Designers, providing good rules to follow when designing and building websites, including advice page titles, content, links and how search engines work.

One good example of bad Title Tag use would be the default WordPress theme. In case you didn’t know, the title tag of the default WordPress theme isnt that useful: Site Name > Blog Archive > Post Title. Why isnt this…

Design is concerned with seeking visual solutions to problems, and planning how to correctly arrange elements. An artist has the same search for the best way to express an idea. Although there may be no rules in art, here are a set of 27 guidelines to help in the creation of some visually successful work.

12. Emphasis We are constantly barraged with images from advertisements, TV, books, magazines, newspapers and the Internet. We take the abundance for granted and this makes the designer/artists job that much more difficult to get the attention of…

Smashing Magazine puts together yet another great list of well-designed blogs. Very inspirational and some really unique designs made the cut.

I like the NZRN.com site and Mostly lisa i was familiar with. She’s pretty damned ballsy and a funny person to chat with too. I am mixed on a few of the more complicated ones. Some are too hard to read and too busy, but overall nice stuff.

The JIT is an advanced JavaScript infovis toolkit that was based on 5 papers regarding different information visualization techniques.

Different techniques for radial layouts have been proposed. These techniques mainly vary on the angle span (or angular width) calculated to place a node’s children. Ka-Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija and Marti Hearst…

iLTs second quarter roundup of sites that use type well.

Good list, but on the aesthetic end, I would have left off thethingswemake. It is well laid out, but the darkened background highlights for some text start and end so abruptly that it feels difficult to quickly scan, in my opinion. If they only…

An overview of 35 established or rather unknown ' but useful source code-editors; youll probably find usual suspects, but youll also find some rather unknown alternatives which are definitely worth considering when choosing an optimal source code editor.

Vim (all)Vim (Vi IMproved), first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer, is a legend. It is a highly configurable console text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi…

Following up on a semi-believable rumor of the 3G iPhone are new semi-believable photos. Glossy plastic? Additional sensors? recessed volume controls?

The final two images show the current metal case replaced with glossy plastic, unless it's an altered image of an iPhone case, of course. Note what appears to be a recessed headphone jack—which is supposed to be flush, according…

You dont have to search for a free quality template anymore. This website weeds out all the quality templates and posts the download links and screenshots. They have mostly css and xhtml templates, but they seem to be building a category for all template areas

Tags: blog, wordpress, white, graphical, 2 column, fresh, light, contrast, colors, clean

WYSIWYG-editors are often criticized by real coding ninjas for bloated, dirty and not standards-complaint source code theyve been producing over the last years. However, WYSIWYG-editors become much better recently. Some of them even produce valid and elegant code.

To make a long story even longer, during this time of learning HTML I was working for an online advertising company that wanted to branch out into building sites for some of their clients. I was tasked with the job since I had build a few sites at…

Add some style to an image with this awesome photoshop technique mixing modern and retro to great effect.

One of the best features in Photoshop is the Brush Engine. We can create lots of effects using it. In this tutorial we used it to create rectangular shapes, similar to those seen in James White's work. You can even use rounded corners, or…

You're looking at the second of many periodic releases, many of which include pointers to the Yahoo! User Interface Library code.

By the way, if you're considering building your own pattern repository or are interested in how we curate our pattern collection here (and how we document patterns internally in the parent library to this one), then you might enjoy an…

Pure genius!

Pure lazyness only a matter of time before someone files for a lawsuit and spoils all the fun

Pixel art lives both in and beyond computer screen. Artists design pixel art posters, magazine covers, album covers, desktop wallpapers, paintings, pixelish? video ads and even pixelated tattoos. In fact, pixel art can be impressive as well. This post attempts to prove just that.

Hmm, where is the mention of Paul Robertson? Also, about 30% of all the works you showed here were from eBoy. There’s a lot of diversity in pixel art, this is in the end quite a shallow slice of it all.. Just browse through…