This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
Cross-Column Pull-Outs: A List Apart in Design
Print designers have long relied on the ability to wrap text around anything -- most commonly around a picture centered between two columns. This design option has not been available for web designers ... until now.
4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1 in Design
Bullet Madness in Design
200 free graphic bullets. All are uploaded by users and I see a few I recognize from non-free sites, so be careful what you use.
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design in Design
Good overview for those unfamiliar with the concept from 37 Signals
You DO Talk to Customers, Don't You? in Design
No substitute for actually asking what the users want.
Mozilla Looking for Quality Design Help in Design
Scorning Standards in Design
Supporting all browsers saves money.
float:right bug in IE : text is invisible in Design
Fixing invisible floats in IE
AIGA - Symbol signs in Design
The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.
Pure css tooltips in Design
Popup help with Pure CSS, no javascript.
The Business Case for Web Accessibility in Design
The fact of the matter is, making your website accessible to as many people as possible is just sound business sense. Building in accessibility on a new site costs around 2% of the overall budget, but the rewards both in terms of PR and ROI can be great.
Why tables for layout is stupid: problems defined, solutions offered in Design
Still the most dominant means of designing visually rich Web sites, the use of tables is now actually interfering with building a better, more accessible, flexible, and functional Web.
whatever:hover in Design
f :hover rules can be tracked and found, and .htc can be used to change an elements behavior, then it should be possible to create a behavior that enables :hover for any element.
GAWDS.org in Design
The Guild of Accessible Web Designers will promote a vision of the future that assumes accessible web design to be, relevant, obtainable, and not at odds with successful business practice, or good visual and usable design.
Information Design readings in Design
Selection of articles and papers that make up the reading list of a University of Washington course on Information Design.
Widgetopia in Design
A directory of design patterns from Christina Wodtke
Mid Pass Filter in Design
In this case, the Mid Pass Filter is a filter which passes external style sheets to version 5.x Internet Explorer for Windows browsers, but not to earlier/older browsers, nor to newer / more modern browsers
Tack-O-Rama - Clipart in Design
Free vintage stock art.
The business value of web standards in Design
Do Web standards give organizations a return on investment? Does the transition to XHTML and CSS make financial sense? The answer to those questions is yes.
Three Column Layouts - css-discuss in Design
PNGCRUSH in Design
Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. It can be run from a commandline in an MSDOS window, or from a UNIX or LINUX commandline.
Color Schemer in Design
Creates schemes of complimentary colors.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet in Design
Lorem Ipsum text that is free from funny business.
PNG Behavior in Design
Internet Explorer behavior provides automatic support for alpha channel transparencies in PNGs.
StockIcons.com in Design
professional-quality, royalty-free icons at affordable prices
Icons in Design
Most of the icons were created for software released under the GPL license. (GPLed icons from the Gnome project)
The Most Practical IA Advice in Design
a 4'x8' sheet of melamine, intended for lining a basement shower stall, but perfectly suitable for dry erase markers. All for the incredible price of $9.99.
Magnetic Paint in Design
Magnetic Paint turns any paintable surface into a magnetic playland. Infused with iron dust, this magnetic paint is a gray latex primer that makes any surface able to attract and hold magnets.
ALT texts in IMG in Design
The ALT text is meant to be alternative text, primarily for use when the image is not being displayed. The most common mistake (if used at all!) is to provide a description of the image, without considering what job the image was doing on the page, leading to results that can range from the incongruous to the absurd
To PNG or not to PNG : evolt.org, Visual Design in Design
I tested out all the various claims of PNGs superiority, with mixed results.
Simplified CSS Tabs Trick in Design
While trying anything and everything to get pure text, CSS tabs from an unordered list to work cross-browser -- without adding extra elements, I came up with a nice little trick.
A Touch of Class in Design
However, as CSS2 points out, class names have no defined semantics, and thus for all their power and flexibility, they are meaningless -- as meaningless as any made up XML tag.
Blog-Fu: Simple Character Entity Reference in Design
These charts will allow you to copy and paste the appropriate character and numeric entities for your documents. To be sure a particular browser supports the entities (both named and numeric), simply open your browser to this pages and view the charts.
CSS layout, 3 columns with Header and Footer, Ordered columns, Netscape 4 compatible in Design
CSS layout generator
squidfingers / patterns in Design
Feel free to use any of these patterns on your own site. (Tiled background patterns)
Styling Form Fieldsets, Legends and Labels in Design
Creating Windows XP icons using Adobe Photoshop in Design
Browser History timeline in Design
Release dates of popular browsers.
How to run a design critique - UIWEB.COM in Design
The challenge is to create the openness needed for good ideas to surface, while simultaneously cultivating the feedback and criticism necessary to resolve open issues.
Interview with Vincent Flanders (Part 1) in Design
Wal-Mart doesn't block the entrance to its stores by making you watch a movie or make you listen to someone who explains the history of the company. That's what a splash page does. It blocks your visitor from getting to the meat of your site. Also, certain search engines give a higher ranking to the contents of your root page (where the splash page is located) and splash pages rarely have any information. A splash page can hurt your rankings with a search engine.
Column Two: Even more style guides in Design
Discussions on sigia-l has thrown up more good style guides.
CSS Centering: Auto-width Margins in Design
This box is horizontally centered by setting its right and left margin widths to "auto".
Column Two: More style guides in Design
I've come across a good number of web style guides.
Colorblind Web Page Filter in Design
Indicate a resource to be viewed, and a color filter to be applied to that resource.
Super Ragged Floats : evolt.org in Design
Using CSS, it is now possible to wrap text tightly around images, similar to that seen in printed books.
PrintARuler.com in Design
Basically, I just got tired of not being able to find a ruler when i needed one, so I ended up laying one out and saving it as a pdf file. Just print and cut and you are good to go.
SAP Design Guild in Design
A resource for SAP application designers, has many general usability and UI design articles
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