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Archive for the ‘design’ Category

Opera Web Standards Curriculum

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Opera Web Standards Curriculum is a free online complete course to teach you standards-based web development. Nice. Chris Mills has written the first article in the curriculum which includes the table of contents. More content will be filled out as time progresses.

The Employable Web Designer

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Andy Rutledge’s list in his post The Employable Web Designer puts forward a strong list of traits, skills and generic attributes of someone who would be hurriedly hired as a web designer (of course if they were that good it would just piss everyone off anyway, but a great list to work by).

Type is Sexy

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

We all know type is sexy - oh yeh!

sexy design on a business card

Designers Hate Estimating

Friday, July 11th, 2008

David Sherwin’s Designers Hate Estimating Part1Part 2 and Part 3. The unquantified factors are important to understand if you want to make money - clients changing needs, client’s initial lack of articulation of real needs, client behaviour during the project, and learning curves.

The Pencil Project

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

The Pencil Project is a Firefox 3 add on that turns your browser into a sketching tool.

Scribus Desktop Publishing

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Some very good things are being said about this software.

Inspirational Posters

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Veerles’ inspiration series - say no more. Posters.

It’s a Beautiful Day Poster

ICON5 Conference Podcasts?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

As the ICON5 Conference is on in New York at the moment I’m wondering if we could possibly pester them for podcasts to be available after the event? Other conferences do it, and the added exposure of making them available contributes to marketing and ticket sales for next year (right?). Cheap. Share the love. Pretty please…