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Quick Tip: CSS Sprite Generator

create a website — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:22:18 +0000

This is a cool CSS Sprite Generator:
http://www.csssprites.com/

Upload your image and an alternative state and it will output the combined image with the background position values. Nice.

Beautiful Web Design

create a website — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:01:50 +0000

Read this ebook from Sitepoint in full: The Principles Of Beautiful Web Design

This covers layout and composition, color, texture, typography, and imagery in web design.

Death to Web 2.0 Design Trends …

create a website — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:58:08 +0000

Thought this presentation was quite entertaining …

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Follow up to the last post: A collection of creative 404 Pages

create a website — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:57:32 +0000

Some high quality and impressive looking 404 pages.

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Microsoft Outlook 2007 Sucks at HTML email

create a website — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:53:37 +0000

Microsoft – why don’t you just disable HTML email in Outlook 2007 rather than implement it so badly?

It now uses Microsoft Word’s rendering engine. The interesting thing is what happens when you forward on an email. You can view the source in Outlook which hides the transformations it is applying – but it isn’t until you forward it and view the source of that email that you can see what trash it is converting it too.

Why should I have to revert to using a table to create a simple border round a block of text when this should be able to be achieved with a div and css?

According to this list of what isn’t supported at Sitepoint (Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007) …

no support for background images (HTML or CSS)
no support for forms
no support for Flash, or other plugins
no support for CSS floats
no support for replacing bullets with images in unordered lists
no support for CSS positioning
no support for animated GIFs

you can add inconsistent support for most everything else!

The Yahoo! User Interface Library CSS Grid Builder

create a website — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:02:14 +0000

More goodness from Yahoo! …
YUI: CSS Grid Builder

Great List of Photoshop video tutorials

create a website — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:01:37 +0000

80 Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials: speed painting, design of buttons and interfaces, beauty retouching, digital matte painting, photo manipulation, effects and much more.

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