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  • 25 Useful WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed

    25 Useful WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed

    When it comes to coding editors, it's damn hard to a get a clear overview of all the benefits and functionalities different editors have to offer. However, in the end everybody needs one, so it's important to know which editor is best tailored to your personal... More... 175 Comments

  • 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

    10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

    Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach... More... 337 Comments

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  • Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

    Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

    Although usability evangelists often consider Flash to be a usability nightmare, used properly, Flash can provide users with a rich and interactive interface which would be impossible otherwise. Today Flash is the de-facto standard for interactive elements on... More... 129 Comments

  • 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

    10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

    Sometimes you just want to get the information you're after, save it and move along. And you can't. Usability nightmares — which are rather the daily routine than an exception — appear every now and again; usually almost every time you type your search... More... 267 Comments

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  • CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch

    CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch

    You don't have to write the same CSS-code or (X)HTML-Markup over and over again. Whatever project you're starting to work with, at some point you have to define classes and IDs you've already defined in your previous web-projects. To avoid unnecessary mistakes... More... 123 Comments

  • 170+ Expert Ideas From World's Leading Developers

    170+ Expert Ideas From World’s Leading Developers

    Few days ago we've published the first part of our survey "50 Designers x 6 Questions". We've presented the first three questions which we've asked and 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from some of the renowned web-developers all around the world... More... 58 Comments

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Design inspiration: an overview of impressive data visualization and infographics. Keep in mind: data vizualization is about informative, not beautiful images.

Data Visualization and Infographics

Footers can be a place where a designer can let his creative juices flow a little more freely. Christian Watson shows 76 excellent footer designs. More footers.

Footers

Ross Johnson discusses 8 forgotten fonts you may use in CSS. Among them are Palatino Linotype, Century Gothic, Copperplate and Gill Sans — apparently, these fonts are installed on a variety of operating systems.

Palatino

How creative can a table of contents be? Designobserver presents Thirty Tables of Contents. The collection includes excerpts from the books by Philip Larkin, Philip Roth, Paul Rand and Jan Tschichold.

Table of Contents

A set of 18 splendid and colorful looking 3D RSS-Icons. They are done with 3d Studio Max. JPG.

Screenshot

In Font Clock 12 different fonts are printed within the mechanism of a clock, providing a random, mixed display of graphic language within a single time piece. Designed by Sebastian Wrong.

Font Clock

One pixel notched corners as used by Google Analytics. Instead of each option being boxed in a clickable rectangle, there is a 1px notch in each corner. It's not necessarily a curved corner, but it is a little softer than a normal box. Nice little trick.

Screenshot

Hartija is a CSS print framework which is an attempt to unite best CSS printing practices into one single CSS-file.

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