Fonts for Web

Here's a useful resource when choosing fonts and writing out a CSS document. This website shows popular web fonts in various sizes and lists them by pixel and em. The fonts are also shown in their bold and italic formats.

Very handy...check it out.

Cool Flash Sites

I found two really cool compilations of "the best of flash" websites. I won't lie, I spent a really long time walking around in the woods on the Saab site. The car's are okay, but the website is definitely cool. Check them out!

The best flash sites ever.

Top 10 flash websites of '08.

Whiteboard

An experiment by the GE company, Imagination Cubed is really cool and just plain fun. It's a digital whiteboard to doodle on, type, draw pictures, and share with your friends. It's a great time waster and fun to play around with.

GE Imagination Cubed

"Optimize" your CSS usage

Since we spent the morning taking about optimization, here's a helpful link to a load of css tutorials and techniques.

The title of the page is "using CSS to do anything: 50+ tutorials and creative examples." There are some really great links on there about creating menu lists, setting up your document, making image galleries, generating rounded corners on boxes, etc. etc. Check it out!

In Print

What's better than writing a post on my blog about movie posters? Linking to a whole blog devoted to the subject!

Posterwire.com is a blog all about posters, specifically movie posters. New posters, old posters, posters about movies and movies about posters are featured on this blog, as well as some great links to movie poster galleries on other sites. A great place to start the plunge into movie poster design for our next assignment.

some more design INSPIRATION

As we all throw stuff around on a page and code, code, code away at our own websites, why not check out a few really cool ones on Design Licks. This website features a new "site of the day" every day. Some pretty cool stuff is featured on there! Just goes to show your only limit is your own imagination as far as website design goes.

Wow, that IS mindblowing!

35 Mindblowing Inspirations And Resources For Designers And Developers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October - definitely worth checking out as we start designing our own websites. Some GREAT STUFF to draw from...

Also, as wine is set to go up 50 cents per bottle, will our standards go down to save money? You've got to wonder if "pretty packages are for suckers."