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A Beautiful Showcase of Black and White Web Design

mardi 8 décembre 2009

Source: A Beautiful Showcase of Black and White Web Design | DesignBump

The United Network

Most people think of black and white images and film being something of the past; but most people are in a different world to us that appreciate good design. I must see at least a few designs made up from pure black and white with maybe a splash of color every day – on the internet, in magazines, and when browsing the shopping center stores.

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Are you magntize?

samedi 7 novembre 2009

Today, as I was looking for some interesting posts to share with my Twitter followers, I found a very interesting new site: Magntize

Magntize

This site is really beautiful example of how to use jQuery to provide users an intuitive and light way to create a internet page to introduce themselves. Within only 2 minutes, you’ve got a beautiful web site, with your bio, a list of your last tweets, blog posts or whatever you like, a list of links to your social network accounts, your homepage, aso., a some contact information.

Do you want to have a deeper look at it?

Go to http://magntize.com, click on the “Sign up for free” button and a simple popup window appears.

Magntize - Signup

Enter your email address and a password

TADAAAM! you’re registered!

Now you simply have to enter some information about yourself…

User Panel - Enter your name, upload your picture, ...

User Panel - Enter your name, upload your picture, ...

User Panel - Describe yourself in a few words

User Panel - Describe yourself in a few words

User Panel - Add links to your social media website, blog, homepage, ...

User Panel - Add links to your social media website, blog, homepage, ...

User Panel - Fill your contact information

User Panel - Fill your contact information

User Panel - Select a theme

User Panel - Select a theme

User Panel - Custom your domain address

User Panel - Custom your domain address

… and this is an example of what you can create:

Amelie-Husson

It simply looks great!

And now… I hope you’re also magntize ;)

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Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics

Source: Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics – Smashing Magazine.

Now is an exciting time to be creating CSS layouts. After years of what felt like the same old techniques for the same old browsers, we’re finally seeing browsers implement CSS 3, HTML 5 and other technologies that give us cool new tools and tricks for our designs.

But all of this change can be stressful, too. How do you keep up with all of the new techniques and make sure your Web pages look great on the increasing number of browsers and devices out there? In part 1 of this article, you’ll learn the five essential characteristics of successful modern CSS websites. In part 2 of this article, you’ll learn about the techniques and tools that you need to achieve these characteristics.

We won’t talk about design trends and styles that characterize modern CSS-based layouts. These styles are always changing. Instead, we’ll focus on the broad underlying concepts that you need to know to create the most successful CSS layouts using the latest techniques. For instance, separating content and presentation is still a fundamental concept of CSS Web pages. But other characteristics of modern CSS Web pages are new or more important than ever. A modern CSS-based website is: progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular, efficient and typographically rich.

* Progressively enhanced,
* Adaptive to diverse users,
* Modular,
* Efficient,
* Typographically rich.

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1000 Free “Farm-Fresh Web Icons”

jeudi 8 octobre 2009

Source: 1000 Free “Farm-Fresh Web Icons” by FatCow Web Hosting

Icons

Download hundreds of FREE, beautifully designed icons from FatCow Web Hosting! Icon set includes both 16 and 32 pixel versions of icons shown below. Images have been saved in PNG format on transparent backgrounds for your convenience…

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76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts

samedi 26 septembre 2009

Source: 76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials.

Grunge serifa

Grunge, dirty, fancy typography and artworks are very popular design trend in our days, so I wanted to showcase here most popular and professionally executed fonts in my opinion. Unleash your dirty side and create some fresh design mixing font size, color, textures together – try something new if you haven’t done it yet!

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This is tomorrow

Source: This is tomorrow.

Typeface classification

“Martin Plonka is an excellent graphic designer from Poland. He recently released a typefaces classification infography that got very popular, and he has some amazing typography experiments in his portfolio…”

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


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