Top Minimalist Website Designs: Trends and Examples
An excellent article focusing on minimalist web design, worth a look @
http://designfestival.com/top-minimalist-website-designs-trends-and-examples
Web design & development documents
Great resource of useful documents for web designers – resources may be found @
Working with HTML5 multimedia components – Part 1: Video
One of the most popular and most talked about features of HTML5 is the ability to embed video content directly into your web pages without the need for a third-party plug-in such as Flash Player. This article from Ian Devlin provides an excellent insight into HTML5 and video, worthy of a look @
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/html5-multimedia-pt1.html
Web Designer, Be Your Best Promoter
For those who wish to work for themselves this is a good article pointing out how you might promote yourself. definitely worth a read @
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/21/web-designer-be-your-best-promoter/
Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools
A just in time article, particularly for my Certificate IV and Diploma students. As the author suggests ‘Usability and user experience testing is vital to creating a successful website’,seeing that this is part of your assessment it is definitely worth a look @
Nice collection of cross-browser CSS animations
animate.css is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.
Design With Dissonance
As the author suggests ‘You might consider yourself knowledgeable, but you’ve probably never heard of this powerful communication and design technique that I’m about to share. I’m sure you’ve seen it in practice but never knew it was working on you?—?that’s how good it is. I’m here to shed light on this technique so that you can use it as an approach to your design or writing.’
An excellent article and approach, definitely worth a read @
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/13/design-with-dissonance/
CSS3 Generator
Gradients can become especially tedious when they need to work across many browsers, which, is almost always the case. Fortunately, there are plenty of great CSS3 generators available. Check this online tool out @
Font squirrel – beautiful free commercial use fonts
Hey guys, just stumbled upon a real time saver. No need to browse through pages of rubbish free fonts to try and find a decent style that allows commercial use also – font squirrel has collected all the best ones for you, not a useless one in sight. Checkout fontsquirrel.com for all your commercial use font requirements.
The Whys And The Hows Of Textures In Web Design
Texture is becoming integral to design. It’s gone beyond being a trend – it’s now a simple and effective way to add depth to a website. Good article and definitely worth a look @
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/03/whys-hows-textures-web-design/