Archives by Category: Design
Web design and development, inspiration, creativity, and related tips, tutorials, resources, and news. Includes related web standards, software, hardware, helpful tools.
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- 9 Free Adobe Illustrator CS3 Brushes and Symbols
5 April, 2008
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 Reviews
16 May, 2007
- Creating a Blog Entry Date Calendar Icon Look with CSS, Mostly
22 February, 2007
- Inspiration, Insight Behind the New Happy Cog Redesign
10 February, 2007
- Tool to Automatically Harmonize Colors
16 January, 2007
- Join Us! BrowserCam Subscription via Fundable Available
18 December, 2006
- Part 2: User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes
9 October, 2006
- Usability and Design News: Screen Resolution, Page Layout, Hot Spots
1 August, 2006
- New Color Scheme Tool
25 June, 2006
- WebsiteTips.com Relaunch!
23 March, 2006
- My Upcoming Book on Essentials for Web Sites
18 August, 2005
- Website Testing: Conquering Cross-browser, Cross-platform Woes
14 August, 2005
- Visionary Workshops and WebVisions 2005 in Portland July 14-15
7 July, 2005
- Great Articles on Design
14 June, 2005
- P22 Cézanne Pro: P22 Announces This New and Improved Version of its Popular Cézanne Font
26 May, 2005
- Web Design Misconceptions and Misinformation
19 December, 2004
- Testing Websites for Accessibility with Lynx
5 October, 2004
- New Web Design Usability Article
30 August, 2004
- CSS, Standards, Semantic Markup, and the Bottom Line: Money
30 July, 2004
- CSS, Site Makeovers, Bowman, Zeldman, More
28 July, 2004
- Internet Explorer - Where are Users Going?
18 July, 2004
- Book Review: Photoshop CS in 10 Steps or Less
3 July, 2004
- CSS Roots
20 May, 2004
- Fantastic Upcoming Web Essentials Workshop
9 May, 2004
- The New Photoshop CS
19 January, 2004
- Friday Feast #64: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Shortened Words
2 January, 2004
- Friday Feast #63: Information Architecture, Standards, Best Practices
24 October, 2003
- Why Should You Learn CSS?
20 October, 2003
- More CSS Tips and Help
5 October, 2003
- Friday Feast #59: WYSIWYG and Dreamweaver MX 2004
12 September, 2003
- Zeldman: Eminem Lookalike?
28 August, 2003
- Friday Feast #56: CSS, MT, Style Guides, TopStyle
22 August, 2003
- Organizing Your Website
19 August, 2003
- Edition 2: Separating Content from Presentation
11 August, 2003
- IE6 Bugs, Blockquotes, Padding, Links, and CSS
10 August, 2003
- Design, SEO, Lots of Food for Thought Today
5 August, 2003
- Friday Feast #54: Design, HTML Editors, MT, Photography, Regex
1 August, 2003
- Movable Type Tags Within Your Text Editor
29 July, 2003
- Offline, Redesign
24 July, 2003
- New Online Accredited Web Design Course
24 July, 2003
- Friday Feast #52: Eye-catching, Practical, Cost-Effective Web Design
18 July, 2003
- WebVisions 2003
17 July, 2003
- New Interview About Web Standards, Life, Technology, and More
15 July, 2003
- Icons for your Weblog
14 July, 2003
- Friday Feast #51: Web Typography, Movable Type, RSS and Comic Strips
11 July, 2003
- Converting from Blogger to Movable Type
9 July, 2003
- Possible Benefits for IE6 Backlash: More Standards Awareness and Use?
30 June, 2003
- It’s All About the User, Including Moms: Lindows and Windows
26 June, 2003
- Friday Feast #49: CSS Approaches to External Links
20 June, 2003
- Weblogs and Permalinks: Reflecting Back
18 June, 2003
- More Interviews with Jeffrey Zeldman
17 June, 2003
- Friday Feast #48: Bookmarklets, CSS Charts, RSS, Stock Photos, Wi-fi and Wireless
13 June, 2003
- Zeldman, Standards, and Meet the Makers Interview
11 June, 2003
- More on Bookmarklets
8 June, 2003
- Friday Feast #46: The World of RSS Explorations
30 May, 2003
- Friday Feast #44: Standards, Site Optimization, RSS, and Weblogs
16 May, 2003
- W3C’s New CSS Releases
15 May, 2003
- CSE HTML Validator Beta 3 Released
12 May, 2003
- Friday Feast #43: Inspiration, CSS, Metadata, Photoshop, Photography
9 May, 2003
- Dull Headings? Here’s Some Inspiration
29 April, 2003
- Friday Feast #41: Standards, Accessibility, and Weblogs
25 April, 2003
- CSS Guru Interview: Behind the Scenes with Eric Meyer
21 April, 2003
- Computer Rulers, Favelets
7 April, 2003
- Friday Feast #38: CSS, Standards, and Taking a Break in Switzerland
4 April, 2003
- Design: Internet vs. Intranet
2 April, 2003
- Friday Feast #36: Semantic Web, Opera’s Bork, CSS, XHTML, Do Not Call Lists
14 February, 2003
- Friday Feast #35: Semantic Web, Voice Technology, Fonts, Mind Mapping
31 January, 2003
- Friday Feast #33: XHTML 2 Working Draft and Discussions
17 January, 2003
- The Color Around Us
16 January, 2003
- Design Inspiration
13 January, 2003
- Friday Feast #32: Thinking About Bandwidth, Broadband, Modems, and Surfing
10 January, 2003
- Practical Web Database Design
9 January, 2003
- January WPDFD: CSS, Vertical Centering, JavaScript, and More
6 January, 2003
- Friday Feast #31: Fostering Creativity, Standards, Independent Projects
3 January, 2003
- Friday Feast #30: Handy Web Design Tools
20 December, 2002
- CSS, Standards, and Owen Briggs
14 December, 2002
- New Review of CSS Book at Evolt.org
11 December, 2002
- Usability, Keeping it Simple, and VisiBone’s new JavaScript Products
4 December, 2002
- W3C’s New Validator
26 November, 2002
- Web Development News
25 November, 2002
- Does Website Optimization Still Matter?
14 November, 2002
- Understanding Markup, Layouts, and Relationships
14 November, 2002
- Opera 7 for Windows Beta 1 Now Available
13 November, 2002
- Friday Feast #24: CSS, Standards, Flash, Usability, and Googlisms
8 November, 2002
- Friday Feast #22: Practicing What We Preach About Standards, Accessibility, and Starting Backwards
6 September, 2002
- Layout Approach: CSS, Tables, A Combination—What To Do?
2 September, 2002
- Friday Feast #21: Keeping it Simple
30 August, 2002
- W3C: More Working Drafts, HTML Group Rechartered*
29 August, 2002
- Friday Feast #20: Chemistry, AOL, Netscape, Standards, and Mac OS X
23 August, 2002
- Web Standards: Show and Tell Time
22 August, 2002
- Nielsen’s Latest: Font Sizing Issues
19 August, 2002
- Web Design and Food
17 August, 2002
- Why Use Standards for Your Site - More To Show Your Boss or Your Clients
12 August, 2002
- W3C’s been busy with XHTML, CSS, and more
6 August, 2002
- VisiBone’s Latest: JavaScript Tools
5 August, 2002
- Breaking Copyright Laws
10 July, 2002
- Friday Feast #16: Standards, Creativity, Internet Law, Color and Monitor Calibration, Weblogs
5 July, 2002
- Digital Web’s Latest on CSS: Web Page Reconstruction with CSS
3 July, 2002
- Color Matters to Color Matters
26 June, 2002
- Digital Web Wants Your Talent
25 June, 2002
- Friday Feast #14: CSS, Design, Typography, Unicode, Usability
21 June, 2002
- New CSS Article at Digital Web
20 June, 2002
- Upcoming Online Accessibility Class
19 June, 2002
- Friday Feast #13: Accessibility, Usability, Blogs, CSS, Design, JavaScript, and Fun
14 June, 2002
- Digital Web’s Latest on CSS: Product Reviews and an Interview
12 June, 2002
- The Web Standards Project
11 June, 2002
- New CSS Book Preview at WebReference
10 June, 2002
- WaSP’s Relaunch Around the Corner
10 June, 2002
- Friday Feast #12: Blog Tools, Creativity, CSS, Design, Graphics, and Fun
7 June, 2002
- Learn the Basics of CSS
6 June, 2002
- CSS Promise vs. Reality: How Do They Compare?
5 June, 2002
- Music and Web Design
4 June, 2002
- Digital Web’s Latest: All About Independent Publishing
23 May, 2002
- The Basics of Database Design
21 May, 2002
- CodeBitch Interview at Pixelview
21 May, 2002
- Online Color Palette Help
20 May, 2002
- CSS and Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform Font Sizes: Why I’m Not Using EM Yet
17 May, 2002
- New CSS Book by CSS Gurus
17 May, 2002
- Friday Feast #9: Accessibility, CSS, Design, Graphics, Information Architecture, Music, Search Engines, Usability, Writing
17 May, 2002
- Don’t Fake Your Markup: Accessibility Issues for CSS
14 May, 2002
- Forward Thinking, Flash, Standards, More - Sitepoint’s Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman
8 May, 2002
- Interview with Australian Type Foundry’s Owner, Wayne Thompson
7 May, 2002
- Photoshop 7’s New Paint Engine
6 May, 2002
- Want to Create a Skyline? Use a Dingbat Font
5 May, 2002
- Design and Creativity Influences
1 May, 2002
- Why Do Some Beautiful Fonts in Print Look Horrible on the Web?
30 April, 2002
- Macromedia’s New MX Series
29 April, 2002
- More on VisiBone’s Web Color KiloChart
28 April, 2002
- Friday Feast #5: Mixed Stew - CSS, Design, Site Promotion, Writing, Reference, Books
19 April, 2002
- How’s Your Color?
17 April, 2002
- VisiBone Offers New Color Chart
15 April, 2002
- Accessible by Design: New Article at Digital Web
10 April, 2002
- Eliminating Bandwidth Theft While Offering Linkware
8 April, 2002
- New HTML + CSS Layout Editor
5 April, 2002
- Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950
4 April, 2002
- More on AOL and its Big Switch to Netscape
1 April, 2002
- Designing for Clients and Users
27 March, 2002
- CSS and Pushing Beyond Our Limited Thinking
25 March, 2002
- What NOT to do with CSS
24 March, 2002
- Helping Your Clients Understand Standards, Testing Your Sites
24 March, 2002
- Friday Feast #1: Pixelview, ALA, Digital Web
22 March, 2002
- Steve Krug Interview
19 March, 2002
- More on CSS Layouts
16 March, 2002
- The Evolution of Rollovers
13 March, 2002
- UK’s Accessibility Rules Miss the Mark
12 March, 2002
- New Digital Web and A List Apart Goodies
8 March, 2002
- WPDFD’s March Issue
2 March, 2002
- Friday at ALA
1 March, 2002
- Speaking of Multimodal Interaction
18 February, 2002
- Better Living Through XHTML
16 February, 2002
- Digital Web Interviews SXSW’s Hugh Forrest
16 February, 2002
- More: Olympics Site Accessibility Issues
14 February, 2002
- Design: Keeping it Simple (and Why it Matters)
13 February, 2002
- Adobe Says Update to Netscape 4?!
7 February, 2002
- MiniFonts.com - Joe Gillespie’s New Web Site for Pixel Fonts
4 February, 2002
- SXSW Interactive Festival in March!
31 January, 2002
- All About Icons and Creating Great Ones
29 January, 2002
- Forward Compatibility
23 January, 2002
- Usable, Accessible Flash
23 January, 2002
- 2002 Olympics Site Accessibility Blunders, Continued
22 January, 2002
- Olympics 2002 Site, Continued
18 January, 2002
- Accessibility Lockout for Olympics 2002 Site—Again?!
16 January, 2002
- How Did Web Standards and Browsers Fare in 2001?
14 January, 2002
- Web Standards - Why, How
8 January, 2002
- Design for Reading—What a Concept!
7 January, 2002
- New Issue at Digital Web
4 January, 2002
- Web Menus with Beauty and Brains: Wendy Peck’s Latest Book
2 January, 2002
- Book and Software Recommendations Added to WebsiteTips.com
30 December, 2001
- Digital Web Wants Your Feedback
18 December, 2001
- WaSP Taking a Break to Recharge
17 December, 2001
- User-Friendly Forms
12 December, 2001
- Peter Morville Defends the Search
7 December, 2001
- CSS3 Selectors: W3C Awaits Your Feedback
7 December, 2001
- Why Redo a Web Site?
5 December, 2001
- Frequent Questions Answered
5 December, 2001
- Speak Your Mind for Evolt
4 December, 2001
- Zeldman on XHTML: Benefits, Guidelines and Tips
3 December, 2001
- Creative CSS Rollovers With Images
29 November, 2001
- How’s Your Information Architecture Today?
28 November, 2001
- Pixelview: Behind the Scenes with Independent Content Designers, Developers, and Others
26 November, 2001
- Designing for Accessibility Can Help Search Engine Rankings, Too
26 November, 2001
- When is it Time for a Redesign?
23 November, 2001
- Setting Up a Web Design Business
21 November, 2001
- Web Design in a Nutshell
16 November, 2001
- What To Do With Too Little or Too Much Content?
15 November, 2001
- Mouseovers with CSS Instead of JavaScript
14 November, 2001
- In a Design Rut? Or is That Your Design Signature?
8 November, 2001
- New Issue at Digital Web!
6 November, 2001
- Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform Forms
5 November, 2001
- New Book on Web Design
31 October, 2001
- Another Fun Design Weblog and More
29 October, 2001
- The Basics of Converting Your Site to XHTML
26 October, 2001
- New Tutorial: Converting Existing Content to CSS
21 October, 2001
- New Tutorial: Converting Existing Content to CSS
21 October, 2001
- Meet MiniMono, a New Variation on the Classic Mini7 Pixel Font
20 October, 2001
- Univ. of Oregon’s Web Publishing Resources
19 October, 2001
- Speech Support for HTML?
16 October, 2001
- Is Your Site Credible?
9 October, 2001
- Flashing For Your Eyes Only
28 September, 2001
- New Issue of Digital Web
27 September, 2001
- Fun and Fantastic Online Color Palette Tools
26 September, 2001
- New Article On Layouts Without Tables
20 September, 2001
- WestCiv’s Style Master Version 2 Now Available
5 September, 2001
- Looking for a Good Online Calendar System Script?
4 September, 2001
- Liquid Design
4 September, 2001
- What’s DOCTYPE and Why Should I Care?
31 August, 2001
- An Understandable Explanation of Tables vs. CSS-P
30 August, 2001
- Can Appealing Design, Great Content and Wide Accessibility Live in Harmony?
24 August, 2001
- Wilson’s Fonts and Readability Survey
22 August, 2001
- Design Experiments and Moving
19 August, 2001
- Practical CSS at A List Apart
17 August, 2001
- Community: Digital Web’s Latest Issue
15 August, 2001
- Design For Community: Powazek’s New Book!
12 August, 2001
- WebVisions: A Successful New Web Design Conference
10 August, 2001
- Inspiration, Refueling, WebVisions, and Portland
9 August, 2001
- Nano Sans: Another Great Pixel Font by Joe Gillespie
31 July, 2001
- More on Weblogs*: Blog of the Day
22 July, 2001
- Community Collaboration, Experimenting with Creativity
15 July, 2001
- Can People Find You? Maps To Your Location
9 July, 2001
- "I Want My Design Like This Site..."
22 June, 2001
- More K.I.S.S. - This Month’s Digital Web Magazine
21 June, 2001
- Site Design: K.I.S.S.
20 June, 2001
- Weekend Tidbits
16 June, 2001
- Design and Site Growth
6 June, 2001
- Zeldman’s New Book!
19 May, 2001
- Planning for a Redesign or a New Web Site
25 April, 2001
- Can Flash Sites Be User-Friendly?
12 April, 2001
- Design and Redesign Disasters
9 April, 2001
- Sneak Peeks at Veen’s New Web Design Book
5 April, 2001
- Design for ECommerce: Meet Bob the Browser And Friends
29 March, 2001
- 4 Seconds To Grab Visitor’s Attention?
10 March, 2001
- Browser Upgrade Initiative: Rants and Raves Abound
24 February, 2001
- The Web Standards Project: Fighting for Standards in our Browsers
16 February, 2001
- Is Your Website on Target for Your Customers?
10 February, 2001
- Standards: Do We Need A Revolution?
27 January, 2001
- Macromedia and Allaire Merge, the State Capitol Hit by a Truck, Rolling Blackouts Begin
17 January, 2001
- Web Standards Explained
5 January, 2001
- More CSS Frustrations
2 January, 2001
- Passion and Labors of Love
19 December, 2000
- Inspiration: Icons, Their Designers and Web Sites
17 December, 2000
- Inspiration: Icons, Their Designers and Web Sites
17 December, 2000
- Can Usability and Design be Friends?
12 December, 2000
- Inspiration from a broken stamp machine?
10 December, 2000




