Web design
Learn Icon Designing: The best of tutorials and articles
0Maybe you think that designing an Icon is very difficult and just some professionals can do it.But those professionals are here to teach you how to design your ownsimple icons just by reading some of the best tutorials have beencollected here.I’ve placed these tutorials into 3 categories; Articles, Photoshop, and illustrator Tutorials.
Articles
1- 10 Mistakes in Icon Design – Denis Kortunov explains the mosty commonly observed mistakes in icon design
2- 7 Principles of Effective Icon Design - Some guidelines and principles before approaching icon design
3- Icon Design: Bitmap vs Vector – a good article about differences between bitmap and vector file formats
4- Drawing an Icon: Sketches and Metaphors – Process of sketching of an icon
Creating CSS Layouts: The Best Tutorials on Converting PSD to XHTML
0First of all, I should thank delicious, StumbleUpon, Dzone, Designfloat and other major social bookmarking websites’ users for featuringmy previous posts. I received a lot of traffic after a few days afterstarting this blog.
In this post, I’m going to show you the most practical tutorials oncoding a template using CSS and XHTML. Making a template has two steps.The first step is Designing the template components and the second stepis Coding them into a valid XHTML page.For learning designing a template from scratch in Photoshop, I suggest checking this post by dzineblog. But how to convert the designed PSD file to an XHTML document is the reason I wrote this post.
The best Tutorials on Converting PSD to XHTML
1- CSS Template Tutorials – Setting Up- This is the part one of the
16 Sites for Web Design Inspiration
0Without further ado – I present 16 sites that you visit for design inspiration.
1. The Best Designs
Suggested by: chandan (Digg profile)
I’ve written about The Best Designs before,so I didn’t list it down this time around. For those unfamiliar withthe site, The Best Designs is a wonderful spot to view high-qualityXHTML and Flash designs. They tag each design with relevant keywords(i.e. – Bold, Colorful, CSS) so you can narrow down your search to theparticular look you’re attracted in.
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Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
1Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you toquickly remember code syntax and see related concepts visually.Additionally, they’re nice decorative pieces for your office.
In this article, you’ll find 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).
So go ahead – print out your favorites and pepper your workspace with these wonderful references.
HTML/XHTML
1. HTML Help Sheet
2. HTML Cheat Sheet
3. HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet
4. XHTML Cheat Sheet v. 1.03 – PDF
CSS
5. CSS Cheat Sheet (V2)
Are you a CSS fanatic?
0Learning Web Standards with Opera
0Web Standards have never been easier to learn. Everything you needto know is condensed into short, helpful tutorials that inform andinspire. Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum can help you brush up onthings you know and maybe even teach you something you didn’t.
Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum,released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network, is acomplete a course designed to give anyone a solid grounding in webdesign/development, including HTML, CSS, design principles andbackground theory, and JavaScript basics.
It is completely free to use, accessible, and assumes no previousknowledge. It already has support from many organizations (includingYahoo! and the Web Standards Project) and universities. The first 23articles are currently available, with about 30 more to be publishedbetween now and late September.
Source: Opera Web Standards Curriculum
iPhone Application / Web App Development Guide
0Apple has sold over one million iPhone 3Gs in first weekend. iPhone 3G looks stunning and runs a lot faster. I am sure most of us would like to have one too. Have you got yours yet? Have you ever think of developing an iPhone Application / iPhone Web App for it? However, how can we get started? Where can we get all the best iPhone Application development resources? You should take a look at the article: Hand Picked iPhone Application Development Resources by iPhone Toolbox.
If you have an iPhone, you can download free iPhone Wallpapers, iPhone Icons from iPhone Toolbox. Also, you can check out the iPhone news and hand picked iPhone Web Apps as well.
Source: Hand Picked iPhone Application Development Resources
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The principles of beautiful web design
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This book will show you how to:* Create amazing designs from scratch* Understand why some designs “workâ€* Unleash your creative talents* Master the design fundamentals: layout, color, texture, typography and imagery* Uncover the trade secrets the great designers keep to themselves…and much more. Far too many things to mention here!Book Description:Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don’t, well, look very nice? Using The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, you’ll see just how easy it can be to create aesthetically pleasing and usable web site designs.This gorgeous, full-color book will guide you through the complete design process from getting inspiration and sketching ideas