Mark Coleran
Service that Scales: Pricing Guidelines, Tips, and Strategies for Freelancers | Spyre Studios
Take a look around any online marketplace and you’ll see the labor of designers, writers, and digital artists severely undervalued.
40 Incredible Vintage Websites
Here, you’ll find 40 of the most incredibly well designed vintage web sites. In reality, of course, they’re only vintage at the most superficial of levels. Peel back the vintage veneer and you’ll find cutting edge web development and design processes have been employed.
iPlotz
… wireframing, mockups and prototyping for websites and applications
Mockingbird
Wireframes on the fly … an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
UI with fewer images
(about CSS performance)
Ignorance Is Bliss
Andrew Clarke shares a case study highlighting the benefits of progressively enhanced web design. Ever wondered how to convince your clients to let you use cutting edge web techniques? It may be simpler than you think.
Make Your Mockup in Markup
»We aren’t designing copies of web pages, we’re designing web pages.«
My Website Design Was Stolen! Now What?
Designers spend hours perfecting websites, whether their own or their clients’.
Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3
In our last article about CSS3, ["Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/02/pushing-your-buttons-with-practical-css3/), we talked about using new CSS3 techniques like gradients, border-radius and drop-shadows to create compelling, flexible and (in some cases) hilarious buttons.
35 Ultimate Useful CSS Cheats to Streamline Web Development
Designing and Coding Wordpress Themes from Scratch
«[…] here are 24 total resources that will show you how to design and code Wordpress themes from scratch. This includes 9 design and coding tutorials, 12 Photoshop mockups, 2 Wordpress e-books, and even a developers “Cheat Sheet”.»
Standardkonforme Photoshop-Slices
exergian
The studio of Albert Exergian is specialized in visual communication utilising art direction and graphic design. The roster of clients includes international companies as well as independent businesses.
15 Web Galleries Using Wordpress
Pictory
Mark Coleran Visual Designer
Direction, Design & Motion
Working With RGBA Colour
Drew McLellan kicks off our 2009 season with a look at some of the tools CSS3 provides for applying levels of transparency to colour values, enabling you to avoid weighing down a site design with heavy PNG images.
Introducing Basic Maths, a Theme for WordPress
A beautiful, brand new blog theme based on Subtraction.com, designed by Allan Cole and myself.
5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers And Developers
Let's look at some clever techniques developed and used by top professionals in the Web design industry. We can use their examples to develop our own alternative solutions.
Effekte mit der CSS-Eigenschaft text-shadow
23 Pure CSS Effects/Solutions to Make JavaScript Angry
Web Design Sketchbook
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Screw Key
The simple concept of a screw driver on your key ring is not new. Nobody has made a high quality key ring screwdriver for the last 10 years, until now. They are constructed of heat treated, blackened steel. They are so simple, there's not much more to say about them. (One Phillips and One Straight Blade)
Log in or sign up?
"Sometimes I put my log in information into the register fields." "Me too! I hate that not only do I feel stupid, I have to retype everything again." For one of my side projects, Leafy Chat, we have just added the concept of user accounts. This includes the need for registration and log in (as well as log out and forgot password and so on). Leafy Chat only requires an email address and a password for both registration and log in, so it would be great to have some clever way to have both forms on the homepage. Some things...
5 Simple, But Useful CSS Properties
This post is about 5 useful CSS properties that you should be very familiar with, but will most likely rarely use. I’m not talking about the new fancy CSS3 properties. I’m referring to the old CSS2 properties such as: clip, min-height, white-space, cursor, and display that are widely supported by all browsers. So, don’t miss […]
Photographic Print Sizes (Wikipedia)
Standard photographic print sizes are used in photographic printing. Cut sheets of paper meant for printing photographs are commonly sold in these sizes.
Paper Sizes (Wikipedia)
There have been many standard sizes of paper at different times and in different countries, but today there are two widespread systems in use: the international standard (A4 and its siblings) and the North American sizes.
The League of Moveable Type
the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts
Font Squirrel : @font-face Generator
Create Your Own @font-face Kits by uploading the fonts you want to use.