Design Tips

Creating usable forms

Jan 4, 2007Comments

Shape Shed has a great outline for creating usable forms. Forms often are overlooked at from the design perspective which can at times frustrate the users. What’s sad is that while forms do get overlooked, they tend to be some of the main goals of a site. Order forms, contact forms, comment forms. [...]

What Resolution Will You Design for in 2007?

Jan 3, 2007Comments

Over on Wisdump the question has been presented What Resolution Will You Design for in 2007?.
Overall, I will be sticking with a 770px (8×6 res) width on the content sections of sites. I’m not doing this necessarily for resolution size. For one, I have a decent resolution on my desktop (1280×1024) and I hate [...]

CSS Dropdown Menu Comparisons

Jan 2, 2007Comments

Looking to do a CSS dropdown menu? Tyssen Design has published a great article detailing the Pros and Cons of 18 different implementations of CSS dropdown menus.
This is a great list and covers every version of a CSS dropdown menu (and other types like Java) that I’ve come across. Each method discussed also has [...]

Grab the Color Scheme From Any Page

Dec 23, 2006Comments

Here is a great new Firefox plug-in called Palette Grabber. Developed by Konstantine Prevas, Palette Grabber creates a color palette that is based on the color scheme of the current page you are viewing.
This is great if you have a client who likes the color scheme of a certain site, or if you like [...]

110 Free Icons

Dec 13, 2006Comments

Well, it’s time for an early Christmas present. Over at Brand Spanking New you can get yourself an icon stocking stuffer.
Download the 113 10×10 greyscale icons in .gif format. The download is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 licence. This means that you can download the icons and use them [...]

Awesome Box a Replacement for Lightbox

Dec 12, 2006Comments

Paul Armstrong introduced Awesome Box on to the scene today. Awesome Box is basically a rewrite of Lightbox that uses YUI instead of Scriptaculous. Unfortunately, Awesome Box in its current state doesn’t work on IE6. Of course, Paul says he’ll work on that very soon.
Aside from that, Awesome Box looks to be [...]