Pearsonified


Mid-century Modern, Pearsonified Style
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:40:47 +0000
Architecture is endlessly appealing to me. Houses, in particular, capture my imagination because they are so primal in their utility: They provide us with a safe place to sleep, eat, store food, and raise young’uns. For the last 90 years in America, home architecture has been dominated by prof...

What Do Solutions Have to Do with Ideology? NOTHING!
Fri, 28 May 2010 18:34:18 +0000
As an important player in the Web software space, WordPress wields a powerful influence in the marketplace. When you’re in a position of such importance, it is your responsibility to purvey accurate information and to refrain from projecting ideologies and agendas on a market that is likely to...

Noupe Design Blog


40 Awesome Works of Art Made From Paper
2010-09-03 11:29:45


30 Fantastic and Splendid Digital Painting Tutorials
2010-09-02 14:21:22


456 Berea Street


Remember non-vendor-prefixed CSS 3 properties (and put them last)
2010-09-02 21:25:24
Everybody wants to use CSS 3 now that even Internet Explorer will support parts of it once IE 9 is out. But since parts of CSS 3 are still subject to change, most browsers use a vendor prefix for many CSS 3 properties to signal that their implemenation is “experimental” and may change in a later...

What characters are allowed unencoded in query strings?
2010-08-30 18:54:16
A couple of months ago I advised people to Be careful with non-ascii characters in URLs. We’ve been discussing that at work lately, more specifically whether characters like ":" and "/" are allowed unencoded in query strings or not. I may well have made mistakes trying to understand the specifica...

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Line25 Sites of the Week for September 3rd 2010
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:01 +0000
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Awesome JS, Draftboard, Doodle Pad, Mooze Design and Theme Trust. Awesome JS View the website Draftboard View the...

Post-Install Plugins to Enhance & Protect WordPress
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:00:30 +0000
WordPress is a fantastic, easy to install application that’s packed full of useful features. It’s all ready to rock straight out of the box, but there’s a few easy customisations you can make with a cocktail of plugins that will enhance the functionality as well as offer crucial pr...

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Java - It's not Dead, Folks - It's Doing Just Fine
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:15:55 -0800
Java.jpgJava gets a bad rap. It's considered old-school. People say that young developers prefer Ruby-on-Rails and other Web-based hot stuff. True - but these are not bad ...

China's Baidu Refocuses on Mobile and Apps
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:00:00 -0800
baidu.pngBaidu is the most-visited website in China and has captured 70% of search revenue in that country. Alexa's Top 500 Global Sites list puts it at number 6. But with virtually no penetration outside Asia, can it...


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Mashable!


Texas Launches Antitrust Investigation of Google
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:17:46 +0000
It has been revealed that the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is conduction an investigation of Google over complaints of antitrust and anti-competitive behavior, and the search giant is responding.According to Search Engine Land, the…

Google Voice Narrowly Defeats Skype in Reader Vote
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:22:33 +0000
This week’s Web Faceoff between Skype and Google Voice came down to the wire.Last week, Google stepped onto Skype’s turf with the launch of

Signal vs. Noise


This week in Twitter
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:38:00 +0000
A few of this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter. Jason Friedjasonfried: The reason you can’t get it done i...

[Podcast] Episode #20: Programming roundtable (Part 1 of 3)
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:53:00 +0000
Time: 19:38 | 09/02/2010 | Download MP3 Summary Three members of the 37signals programming team — Jeffrey Hardy, Jamis Buck, and Jeremy Kemper — answer questions from readers of Signal vs. Noise. Topics include Rails, Git, Mocha,...

Web Design Dev


GIVEAWAY: CodeMyConcept $150 Gift Card – PSD TO HTML, ends Sept. 6 2010
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:52:11 +0000
$150 PSD to HTML giveaway - MUST SEE THIS!

10 Good and 10 Bad Things About Adobe’s Dreamweaver
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:25:10 +0000
Dreamweaver is a tool for making web sites. Learning Dreamweaver can be a bit of an uphill struggle if you are new to either web design, html or the program itself. When you first open it, even the welcome screen can look daunting, there seems to be 1000 tools you would never even think of using...


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Inspiration: 30 Beautiful Textured Illustrations
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:54 -0400
Illustrations -- before digital graphics software -- used to be highly textured; whether it came from the medium (e.g. paper, canvas), the painting method (like watercolors or chalk), or both. These te...

Create a Cosmic Scene with Photoshop and Cinema 4D
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:00:13 -0400
In this Photoshop and Cineme 4D tutorial, I will show you how to create a space composition, exploring techniques for creating 3D text in Cinema 4D, a glass effect in Photoshop and a slew of different light effects. ...

Think Vitamin


‘UX Professional’ isn’t a Real Job
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:03:48 +0000
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The Hidden Magic in TextMate
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:00:01 +0000
By Nick PellantTextMate has become an essential part of my development arsenal over the last few years. When you first open up the application, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about- at first glance it looks like any other text editor. The true beauty of TextMate is the plethora of bundles...

TechCrunch


Lanyrd – Plancast Meets Upcoming For Conferences
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:04:38 +0000
Look out Plancast and Upcoming, here comes Lanyrd. Ok, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but if it's possible to have a SXSW "tipping point" at an event then Lanyrd just had it at dConstruct, a popular design an...

The Funded’s Adeo Ressi Arrested After Virgin America Flight Incident
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:12:15 +0000
The Funded founder Adeo Ressi was arrested and briefly detained earlier this evening over an altercation with a flight attendant. The airline? Virgin America, which I've been holding up ...

SimpleBits


Ten Years
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:28:43 -0400
I’m about to head out on a little vacation, but I realized this Wednesday marks ten years of archives here at SimpleBits. Actually, there were a few other domains that came before simplebits.com (robotcom.com and cederholm.org). I’d actually been publishing short, frequent updates for a few year...

"In the same way that a movie isn’t good because it’s in color, a movie isn’t good because it’s in..."
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:06:00 -0400
“In the same way that a movie isn’t good because it’s in color, a movie isn’t good because it’s in 3-D.” - James Cameron

Web Design Ledger


10 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:04:25 +0000
When it comes to adding JavaScript functionality to a website, jQuery has become the solution of choice for web designers and developers. With it’s ease of use and ever-growing selection of plugins, there’s really no point to look elsewhere. Awesome jQuery plugins are popping up everyday...

11 New High-Quality Free Fonts
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:39:44 +0000
Every week we try to hunt down high-quality freebies for our readers. One of our favorite freebies to find for you are fonts, because everybody knows… you can never have too many fonts in your library. In this post, we’ve rounded up 11 brand new fonts that are super high-quality. I espec...

Smashing Magazine Feed


Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design
2010-09-03 09:49:39


Showcase Of Appetizing Restaurant Websites
2010-09-02 13:54:23


O'Reilly News and Commentary


Make Magazine Weekend Project: LED Light Brick
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Net neutrailty: What scares you most - It all depends on what you fear.
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Dev Shed - RSS Feeds


MVC and the Zend Framework
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:00:05 -0400
In this four-part article series, you'll learn about the model-view-controller (MVC) design architecture, why its use is a best practice when building web applications, and how using the Zend framework for PHP lets you make the most of this architecture. This article is excerpted from chapter 25 of...

PHP: Rendering Web Pages Using the Composite View Design Pattern
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:08 -0400
Welcome to the conclusion of a five-part series on the Composite View design pattern. This article will focus on a way to make use of this design pattern when you're building dynamic web pages. It involves a simple two-step rendering process. - As you probably know, one of the great commandments...


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Daring Fireball


Felt Tip Inc.
2010-09-03 23:05:21


Apple Promo Page for iOS 4.2 for iPad
2010-09-03 22:48:07


Web Designer Wall - Design Trends and Tutorials


Giveaway: iPhone Stickers
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:39:35 +0000
First, I would like to thank everybody for reading Web Designer Wall and following me (@nickla) on Twitter. Today, I have iPhone stickers to give out to my followers only. I will be giving out 20 iPhone stickers (sponsored by Sticker Mule) with my illustration printed on it . All you have to do ...

Flashloaded Component Giveaways
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:45:52 +0000
Flashloaded offers Flash components that help you to build cool Flash stuffs without having to code any Actionscript. The components are very easy to use and customize. Just drop the component on the stage, customize it via the parameter palette, and you are all set. In this contest, Flashloaded...

Devlounge - Homepage Feed


Friday Focus 09/03/10: Ribbons
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:27:40 +0000
Using ribbons is really big these days, bringing both sophistication and a hint of nostalgia to designs.

15 Wonderful Handpicked Desktop Wallpapers
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:09:34 +0000
As someone who spends many hours behind the computer writing and creating websites my desktop wallpaper is very crucial to me. I’m very picky with my wallpapers, they must inspire me but not distract me or bore me very fast. I like to take inspiration from things right in front of me or around...

Scobleizer


“Twitter track on steroids” announced by TweetMeme founder
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If you follow Steve Gillmor you know he loved a feature that used to be in Twitter, that he called Track. It let you ask Twitter to shove you real-time info. It was turned off as Twitter tried to deal with its scale problem. But now Twitter is bringing back real-time streams. IR...

Tour of SimpleGeo reveals why location services can’t get along
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Last week I finally got to visit one of the companies that’s getting a lot of attention inside the location-based service world. No, it’s not Foursquare or Gowalla. It’s SimpleGeo, headquartered in Boulder, CO. But one thing I’m interested in is why all thes...

Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials


Daily Inspiration #605
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:48:02 +0000
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring image...

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #64
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:28:41 +0000
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. ...

1stwebdesigner - Graphic and Web Design Blog


55 of The Most Colorful and Inspiring Web Designs
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:00:46 +0000
In this showcase we’ve put together a great collection of some of the most colorful web designs out there. If you need some inspiration for any sort of design or just want to have a look at some truly great web designs, these are definitely worth having a look at ! These websites will show yo...

Email UI Faceoff – GMail vs Hotmail vs Yahoo – The results
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:11 +0000
The results are in, and we've got some really fantastic information on different aspects of usability for Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Gmail. Read on to find out just who won in this usability faceoff.

Six Revisions


8 Tips for Using Virtual Assistants and Personal Outsourcing
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:30:58 +0000
Personal outsourcing isn’t quite the hot topic that it was two years ago. With virtual assistant firms available left and right, could-be assistants have become less of a unique work accessory and much more of a sustainable, ubiquitous business addition. What was once a quirky but useful tool...

Use the 80-20 Rule to Increase Your Website’s Effectiveness
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:30:49 +0000
Want to increase your website's conversion rate? How about doing less work while you're at it? Focus on the 20% that will bring you 80% of the results.

W3C Blog


Web on TV workshop in Japan
2010-09-02 23:11:12


Global and Accessible Web
2010-08-26 19:46:44


Colorburned


Create a Color Picker Icon In Illustrator
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:55:50 +0000
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a color picker icon from some blends, gradients, and simple shapes. This icon works great for web design project and in user interface design. Moreover, you can use…

Giveaway: Win 1,000 Free Business Cards from InkChaser.com (x2)
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:00:47 +0000
Hello everyone! Today, we’ve got yet another giveaway for you guys. Our friends at Ink Chaser have been generous enough to give away 1,000 business cards to 2 lucky Colorburned readers. Ink Chaser is a business printing company and…

Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch


Bokeh Effect in Web Design: Examples and Tutorials
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:03:06 +0000
Bokeh effect is the blurred or out of focus part of the image. This effect has become very popular recently, and is normally seen in photography mostly around the light sources. Many designers have made use of this effect in…

69 Sexy and Explicit Advertisements: See It Creatively
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:07 +0000
Sex sells. In today's society, people are becoming more open minded. As such, advertisers are becoming bolder. They exploit our acceptance and desire for the sensual by using sex to turn heads regardless of your gender or sexuality. Sex has…

Tutorial9


Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:45:50 +0000
August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here's Creative Bookmarks August!

Correcting Exposure with the Shadows & Highlights Tool
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:00:00 +0000
Bring out the best in your photos by correcting exposure problems using the Shadows & Highlights tool.

Think Design


Resources - Tweets of the Week (8.30.10 - 9.3.10)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:27:13 +0000
Hello all! So I apologize for being a bit quiet this week. I've had a couple projects keeping me extra busy, but I promise to be back next week with some cool freebies, and very cool inspirational art work. As for this weeks tweets of the week, we have some great articles, awesome and unique inspira...

Resources - Tweets of the Week (8.23.10 - 8.27.10)
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:00:59 +0000
This week's Tweets of the Week has a whole bunch of goodness. More of a variety then normal, we have tutorials, advice for freelancers and small businesses, some awesome inspiration, and a whole lot more. Couple random stories of interest as well, including the writers of Futurama creating and provi...

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