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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Have you ever wanted to show off your design talents and participate in the making of a premium WordPress theme? Thanks to the team over at Woo Themes, it looks like that is now a possibility with their new Woo Contest.

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Whoever is behind BustAName.com deserves a small shiny statue made of precious metals. BustAName makes you feel like you are always making progress towards an available name, which almost makes the process fun. Web usability guru Steve Krug once observed that we humans tend to "muddle through" the web - and we actually don't mind doing so - so long as we feel we are making progress towards our intended goal. BustAName will quickly give you that sense of moving forward towards a decent and available domain name as you creatively muddle through all the ones that are already taken.

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CSSCount list of Vintage, Retro and Modern Website Designs for web designers inspiration in no particular order.

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Diana Nock has been collecting sketches of The X-Men's Nightcrawler, and with nearly 200, has put the entire collection online: The Nightcrawler Sketchbooks. Here's one by Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Fifteen students from The Art Institutes have been chosen to represent their school in The Humane Society of the United States' fourth annual Cool vs. Cruel fashion competition. The Cool vs. Cruel competition inspires design students enrolled in The Art Institutes' fashion design programs in its schools across North America to produce fur-free, animal-friendly fashions by using their own creativity to replace animal fur.

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From 16 October 2008 to 31 March 2009, London Transport Museum will be hosting a retrospective of a hundred years of outstanding posters design for London’s transport system.

Entitled "The Art of the Poster - A Century of Design", the exhibition will bring together 60 original posters along with photographs, letters, concept sketches and artist's materials to trace the history of London Underground's championing of design from the first poster commission in 1908.

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    CSS Tips

    Friday, November 30, 2007

    I came across this page of best CSS practices and thought I'd share because it really does have useful information.

    50+ CSS Best Practices and Coding Guidelines

    One important tip is to "Build and test your CSS in the most advanced browser available before testing in others, not after." And I cannot say that better unless I use the world Firefox. Seriously, check your work in Firefox first because it is the strictest of browsers. If your site looks good there then it should render correctly in IE. IE is far too forgiving of code mishaps.

    I also agree with the tip to name IDs or classes based on their function and not their look because they'll be easier for other people to dissect that way. Also it will help you to know where they are visually on the page if you have them named in a functional matter in the code.

    Any tips you might have would be appreciated, add them in the comments. =o)

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    Son of a suckerfish

    Friday, February 2, 2007

    Oh, I didn't make it up. There is a vertical css menu extension that words with the CMS Joomla and it is called "Son of a suckerfish - vertical menu." Seriously, Toby and Keane and I got a little chuckle out of it today. Because you know me, as soon as I saw it I immediately had to say it out loud a couple hundred times.

    Hahaha!

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