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."

Web Designer Wall

Featuring tutorials to trends, this web design blog is a great resource for all of us new to website design. It's called Web Designer Wall and with plenty of CSS how-to's and lots of tips, there's a lot of good stuff to try out and play around with!

FREE STUFF to make designing easier!

At CG textures, you can find a huge selection of high res textures from all different kinds of categories. Seriously, there are tons.

and if its images you seek,

StockXChange is full of tons of high res images. You have to sign up for a username and password, but after that you're good to go.

You Suck at Photoshop...

I would like to present to you the most hilarious tutorials I have ever seen. A friend at an advertising agency in the US sent them to me to share with all of you in case we were looking to brush up our design skills....

It's called "You Suck at Photoshop".

Click here to check out the series. They really are priceless, and you might actually learn something!

Can design really make a difference?

The website psdtuts.com recently put together a collection of some shocking ads from all over the world tackling the issues of poverty, homelessness, and world hunger.

The concepts behind the ads are really well thought out and many of the design approaches used are shockingly simplistic, but the end results are quite powerful.

Some heavy stuff: Here's the link.

Don't mess with Helvetica.

After watching the Helvetica film, I gained a new appreciation for the precision in this classic typeface's forms. I agree with the type designer in the film who said he could sit there and try to figure out how to improve the font, but would probably go crazy trying to do it. The font is just too perfect.

But along comes Microsoft, who takes no mind to stomping all over Helvetica, and releases a font no graphic design professional would ever use willingly: Arial.

Arial will always live in the shadow of Helvetica, so what's the point? Other than fooling those who don't know any better into using it, Microsoft basically accomplished nothing through the production of this wanna-be font.

Feel the same way I do? Check out this link and Beat Arial to a pulp! http://www.mimeartist.com/helvetica/

Cool Design Industry Site

I found this cool website about the design industry. It's a good place to find out what's going on in the here and now and also lists a bunch of cool design websites recommended by subscribers to the site.  

It even has a job board for postings and free lance opportunities! 

Here's the link! : http://www.qbn.com/

This is just a test...

my first post!