October 2008
smush it!
by claire_ & 7 others
Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.
September 2008
August 2008
DIY Map: Create clickable maps in Flash
by claire_ & 2 others
DIY Map is a clickable, zooming map written in Flash and colored by data from an external text file
July 2008
June 2008
COLOURlovers API Documentation and Showcase by COLOURlovers
by claire_
With the release of the COLOURlovers API, you can now access almost 1 million named colors and more than 325,000 color palettes for your creative projects and applications
Design isn’t about tools : Journal : Mark Boulton
by sbrothier
I’ve always liked to abstract my design process from the tools I use. Photoshop, Fireworks, HTML/CSS, Pen and paper, HTML Wireframes using Blueprint, Omnigraffle—It doesn’t really matter. You use what’s best for your workflow at the time. These are all tools in the same way that a pencil is a tool. They are implements to realise a solution to a problem. You say tomato and I say toe-may-toe.
Stopdesign | Choosing the right tool
by sbrothier
However… I consider myself fairly competent in HTML & CSS. But even I am limited in design by starting with code before having a few design ideas fleshed out.
I have advocated in the past that HTML and even CSS are not design tools. They are tools used to implement design. There’s a big difference.
April 2008
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS
by sbrothier & 15 others
The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns. The 4kb file provides over 1000 page layout combinations. Other features include:
* Supports fluid-width (100%) layouts as well as preset fixed-width layouts at 750px, 950px, and 974px, and the ability to easily customize to any number.
* Supports easy customization of the width for fixed-width layouts.
* Flexible in response to user initiated font-size adjustments.
* Template columns are source-order independent, so you can put your most important content first in the markup layer for improved accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO).
* Self-clearing footer. No matter which column is longer, the footer stays at the bottom.
* Layouts less than 100% are automatically centered.
* Accommodates IAB's Ad Unit Guidelines for common ad dimensions.
* Offers full A-grade browser support.
March 2008
