Over 550 Photoshop Brush Packs Free for Commercial Use

Nice resource:

Over 550 Photoshop Brush Packs Free for Commercial Use

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LightWindow v2.0

Remember LightBox? Check his younger brother, who can do much, much, more:

LightWindow Demo

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12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript

Adobe Flash is an excellent technology that allows developers to add interactivity and smooth animations to web pages. Its popularity is so immense that you’ll find many websites dedicated to helping developers interested in Flash.

12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript

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2008 Design Trends

If you stuck with a design or just want to refresh your approach, take a look at this list of 82 sites picked from Best Web Gallery that show the current design trends.

2008 Design Trends

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Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS

As we apparently going to work on Wordbress bul sites in close future, i tought that you might find this article useful:

WordPress is first and foremost a blogging platform, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be used for other things as well. In fact, the development of WordPress have been such that I wouldn’t be surprised to see a non-blog focused fork soon, because the necessary functionality for most web sites on the admin side of things are already there.

Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS

New York Times Redesign - case study

How do you redesign the website for a venerable news brand with a distinct identity and a loyal readership?

What’s more, how do you face challenges like the commoditization of online news, the rise of user-generated content, and other emerging technology trends, while still upholding journalistic standards?

New York Times Redesign - case study

Ps. although its quite long its really worth to watch. loads of relevant points made during presentation, and some useful info (for example about importance and their approach to article page).

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Logólogos

What happen when someone put to much thinking into meaning of logo.

Logólogos

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In out, in out. Shake it all about...

Want to join the Outsourcing/In Housing debate?

You could do worse than start here

Django

Two for the price of one post coming up...

1. Django (you may already be more than aware..."yawn") is an open source web app for creating database driven websites. It has some leaning towards journalism, specifically online news delivery.




2. The front of shop website has a ridiculously concise interface. Great application of colour palette, hierarchy of content and typography.

Logo Mashups

interesting approach to brands

Mario Amaya, Different Thinker

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Polymap

Multimap has a smart way of integrating commercial banners without diminishing user experience.



Interaction with the site modules refresh the Ad spots - not the entire page. Pretty slick interface too.

Jnr Relaxation required 40 hrs/pw

Office of the year
Google offices in Zurich

He was a right Quint...

What's a video, about a monomanical sea captain, got to do with Web Design(?) you may ask ;)

No comment?...

Often overlooked, the humble 'comment' list can house some serious discussion or (more than likely) serious pontification. Either way, it's valuable content and these examples go some way to show a current trend in 'designed' comment lists.



Some aren't great, but more importantly the examples represent consistency in-line with their respective sites.

Light Up Bristol

One more post in relation to creative use if light. Check out this movie from Light Up Bristol event (last December)

Light Up Bristol on Vimeo

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Awesome Light Graffiti Pictures

Great, simple idea with very creative execution. Worth look at.



Awesome Light Graffiti Pictures

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Distributed Identity

The concept is simple. Most of us own several identities online (Facebook, Blog, Technorati, Amazon etc etc). They are all from the same, common source but each one will be specifically tailored to it's given purpose. We therefore operate a 'Distributed Identity'.

This concept can be expanded by looking at how these identities can be presented, navigated and aggregated.

Zoolit, for example, is a shareable Web page that lists all your personal sites. Great, but you could probably manage without it.

Marketing agency, Zeus Jones, puts a slightly different spin on aggregation with hot-links to specific, business related areas.

Further spinning and Paul Bradshaw cleverly uses a Google search results page to present his work. He has even managed to include a narrative to the page, albeit divisive.

Maximum spin now and the mild genius of Modernista! is an exercise in brevity. As their introduction alludes...

"Do not be alarmed.
You are viewing Modernista! through the eyes of the Web."

So, powerful and simple stuff. I am sure a company, with multiple brand branches, could find not a better model for spreading their delights on the web...

I was blind now I can see

Ian Tait over at the brilliant Crackunit.com has written a very articulate and long (in a good way) article about the concept of the 'next big thing'...

It is coming from the side of an advertising man, but, elements of his diatribe can be associated with the realm of any company creating content online.

The section about hiring Digital Natives really struck a chord. In essence, digital companies need to take note of their workforce and exploit/hire talents above and beyond their job titles.

Sometimes, the best ideas and solutions don't even get a chance because the wrong people are in a meeting room. The wrong people are driving strategies and the wrong people pulling the above together.

We need the best men, not the yes men.

With that in mind, that leads me to look at how that could happen.. but thats another story kids. It's past my bedtime

Get fully bent here

I also recommend you read the comments after the post (often a goldmine of further wisdom). The sort of people posting here are in the mix when it comes to the vanguard. I even used to work with a couple of them...

grid in your eye

get your grid oane dawg...

Don't get unstuck

"We're barely into the second decade of the the Net's development. Unlike the first ten years when corporations built the web, over the next decade the Internet will largely be created by the people for the people via online communities..."

Full article har and the comments add to the discussion...

Aggregate the aggregators y'all

Get fed big from all your web aggregations...

45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins

Interesting resource to possible enhancing our future web project.

45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins

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PicLens - veeery nifty!

Check out this very nifty Firefox (and IE) add-on, which makes image browsing on few sites a more interesting experience. Watch demo on the site or ask me to show you how it work.

PicLens | Immersive Slideshows Across the Web

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Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos

I have too much time on my hands recently, so Interesting bit of history and info on evolution of few well know company logos.

Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos

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Home Page Carousel Showcase

Hiya,

Another site to take ideas from, this time for carousels. Here are 40+ examples, maybe you will find some of them interesting.

Carousels Design Showcase | Elements of Design

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jacobs cracker

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, January 9, 2000: Is Navigation Useful?


This is a relatively old post, but it still carries some valuable discussion points.

Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples

Another decent article from Smashing Magazine. This time about trends in navigation graphic. Worth to take a look.

37+ Great Ajax, CSS Tab-Based Interfaces

Well, there is alot of navigation ideas to choose from. Some of them are on early stage of development, but still worth to look thru..

37+ Great Ajax, CSS Tab-Based Interfaces

Volkswagen uk site is top quality

Check it out, custom build your car and see the animation transitions. Good use of 3D and Flash.

Will IE8 "break the web"?

In a controversial move by Microsoft, Internet Explorer 8 is to switch off all of its new features by default. This includes improved rendering abilities for standards compliance.

Any developer who wishes to allow IE8 to render their site correctly (like Firefox, Safari & Opera already do by default) they will need to add a line or two of code to enable these features (version targeting).

The irony is having IE8 render correctly with its new features will eliminate the need for version targeting of browsers. Developers will need to version target IE8 in order to opt out of version targeting!

This is of course aimed to prevent the "breaking of the web" which refers to non savvy developers who have built their sites to work solely on the IE6 & IE7 platforms. Basically allowing lazy, overpaid developers to get away with a poor job.

For more information read the full article (rant) by Clear Left's Jeremy Keith.

SitePoint CSS Reference

Nicely done CSS Reference. Might be handy from time to time.