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August 2007

How to make sexy buttons with CSS

by 15 others
This tutorial will teach you how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS.

July 2007

Blog Usability: Top 10 Weblog Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

by 15 others
Weblogs are a form of website. Normal website usability guidelines therefore apply to them, as do this year's top ten design mistakes. But weblogs are also a special genre of website; they have unique characteristics and thus distinct usability problems.

Dynamic Drive- FavIcon Generator

by 31 others
Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16x16 image that is shown inside the browser's location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up

LightWindow Demo

by 14 others
Cette librairie JavaScript permet de créer très facilement des pseudo fenêtre en sur impression de la page Web, pour montrer tout type de contenu. Dommage que ce soit basé sur Prototype et Scriptaculous, et non jQuery...

Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates

by 7 others
We’ve selected fresh high quality icons, buttons, vector graphics, templates and layouts.

Hyperlink Cues with Favicons (Ask the CSS Guy)

by 1 other
For links that point to external sites, what if, instead of showing a generic 'external link' icon, we showed that site's favicon?

June 2007

Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic

Une excellente comparaison des styles de présentation de Bill Gates et Steve Jobs, avec un clair avantage pour la simplicité du second

Props to the CSS Zen Ocean Diver Effect (Ask the CSS Guy)

L'explication de l'effet de lumière variable du plongeur de l'un des meilleurs designs de CSS Zen Garden

» 15 of the Best CSS Zengarden Designs

by 1 other
15 des design (certainement pas les meilleurs) de CSS Zen Garden

May 2007

April 2007

A Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition

by 19 others
12 months since our original Guide to CSS Support in Email and quite a bit has changed since. Most significant of these changes was in the wrong direction, with Microsoft's decision to use the Word rendering engine instead of IE in Outlook 2007

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Investing in Logical Architecture Design Samples

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The first completed sample is for a typical corporate deployment. This sample design includes: § Intranet sites (My Sites, team sites, and published intranet content) § Partner Web site § Customer Web site (including content deployment across server farms)

February 2007

swfIR: swf Image Replacement

by 25 others
swfIR (swf Image Replacement) is here to solve some of the design limitations of the standard HTML image and its widely-accepted associated CSS values, while still supporting standards-based design concepts. Using the dark arts of JavaScript and Flash, swfIR gives you the ability to apply an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website. Through progressive enhancement, it looks through your page and can easily add some new flavor to standard image styling.

Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Making Design Decisions

When making design decisions regarding features in your application, it’s important to weigh the costs, not all of which are financial, against the potential benefits. Every time you add a feature to your application, the following things can happen: * Your application gets larger. * Your application gets slower. * Your application’s human interface becomes more complex. * You spend time developing new features rather than refining existing features. * Your application’s documentation and help become more extensive. * You run the risk of introducing changes that could adversely affect existing features. * You increase the time required to validate the behavior of your application.

January 2007

53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | Smashing Magazine

by 60 others, 6 comments
Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time - of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-architects, really couldn’t live without. They are essential and they indeed make our life easier. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites.

A List Apart: Articles: Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique

by 7 others
Switchy McLayout lets you define the dimensions, information richness, and appearance of your content objects for set ranges of screen sizes. A news site, for example, could have one layout and appearance for wide screens, one for medium-sized screens, and another for PDAs. Images could shrink or even disappear according to the screen size, columns could come and go as needed to maintain readability, and you can achieve a more efficient use of the available space for each screen size.

November 2006

Interface elements for jQuery - About Interface

by 19 others
Interface is a collection of plugins for jQuery java script library. With this plugins you can build Web 2.0 aplications with the same same simplicty as using jQuery and provide a rich user interface.

September 2006

openide: How To Design a (module) API

by 2 others (via)
A description of good design practices when design any APIs with especially closer look to the case of an API based on NetBeans infrastructure is content of this evolving document.

July 2006

Five common PHP design patterns

by 6 others (via)
Design patterns are just for Java™ architects -- at least that's what you may have been led to believe. In fact, design patterns are useful for everyone. If these tools aren't exclusive to architecture astronauts, what are they, and why are they useful in PHP applications? This article explains.

Main Page - Patterns For PHP

by 1 other
Patterns for PHP is a repository of Design Patterns implemented specifically for PHP. Tired of seeing Java implementations? Just want to see what Patterns are all about? Then come on in, browse, and if you wish, contribute to the growing number of Design Patterns with PHP centric descriptions and examples.

May 2006