March 2010
252 posts
1985 – A Free Vector Pack of Your Favourite 80s... →
Big hair, mix tapes, boom boxes, BMX, roller skates and skateboards were all icons of the 1980s. This vector pack contains them all, plus more retro goodness! The pack contains 11 scalable vector…
Pizza, która zachorowała na social media →
Problem: kryzys zaufania do marki i produktów z nią związanych. Klienci porównują smak pizzy Domino do kawałka tektury polanej keczupem. Rozwiązanie: nakręcić reklamówkę w której pokazuje się,…
Client: “I need you to illustrate 360 jokes for my... →
Client: “I need you to illustrate 360 jokes for my book.”
Me: “Ok, what’s your budget?”
Client: “I don’t have much, I can pay X”
Me: “That works out to be less then minimum wage for me per…
Comic for March 28, 2010 →
Open Source Document Viewer For Websites:... →
FlexPaper is an open source document viewer component for displaying PDF files inside websites or Flash applications.
The component does not exactly display PDF files but the PDF-to-SWF…
How to Build Engaging One-of-Kind Facebook Fan... →
Don’t let anyone tell you it is easy to create a successfully engaging Facebook Fan Page. It is not. It’s not an insurmountable task either. It is do-able but requires planning, time, some…
HTML5 Video Player: Projekktor →
Projekktor is an open source HTML5 video player that is built with pure JavaScript but uses Flash when there is no native H.264 support..
The player supports playlists and can display the…
Free Sketch Templates For Web Design →
Before any tangible designs are made, any experienced designer should know that the first thing you do before any sort of web development project is map out a rough sketch first.
Although most…
Comics of the Week #18 →
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.
These great cartoons are created by
Surf sur le canape →
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One Check.in to rule them all? Almost… →
While their usefulness is often debated, no one can deny that location-based check-in services are the new hotness. During SXSW here in Austin it was more apparent than ever. Every venue I visited I…
Malware Overwriting Desktop App Updaters →
For the first time security researchers have spotted a type of malicious software that overwrites update functions for other applications, which could pose additional long-term risks for users. The…
Samsung Galaxy S: Hands on wrap up →
Well after the news that the Samsung Galaxy S has at least 3 times the graphical processing power of other smartphones perhaps it is back on the radar after being rather abruptly unseated by the…
24 Free Exclusive Google Buzz Icons →
Google Buzz made a loud and controversial entrance when it launched in February shrouded with privacy issues and various other concerns.
Like it or not, it seems that Google Buzz is here to…
Eye Candy vs. Bare-Bones in UI Design →
The fine line between good and bad eye candy in balancing usability with emotional appeal.
The general public seems to be kind of shallow when it comes to user interfaces. They think…
20 Helpful jQuery Methods you Should be Using →
So you’ve been playing with jQuery for a while now, you’re starting to get the hang of it, and you’re really liking it! Are you ready to take your jQuery knowledge to level two? Today, I’ll…
Content Aware Image Manipulations →
Back in late October 2009, Adobe Labs showcased an upcoming feature in Photoshop called Content Aware Fill. And it was absolutely amazing. Now they have released another video, showcasing even…
CSS Raindrops; Sean Martell whizzes into the CSS... →
Sean is awesome, and his latest magic is in the Raindrop logo that he has “ported” to CSS (inspired by the Opera logo by David Desandro.)
The fun is in this CSS where you will see a…
Projektowanie graficzne w Polsce →
Shared by Karol F
I want that for Xmass ;)
Nakładem Wydawnictwa Karakter, ukazała się bardzo ciekawa pozycja, stanowiąca od dziś niezbędnik każdego projektanta w Polsce (i nie tylko). Autorzy:…
Getting Started with OOP & PHP5 →
Since the introduction of PHP 5 in 2004, PHP has had an object model worthy of that description and became a truly modern language for use on the web. Earlier PHP scripts would have been of…
CSS Sprites: Useful Technique, or Potential... →
Ah, the ubiquitous CSS sprites — one of the few web design techniques that was able to bypass “trend” status almost instantly, planting itself firmly into the…
Dynamic lighting effects in Canvas →
Jonas Wagner has a perfect Friday fun demo that normal mapping and phong shading in JavaScript using Canvas. Your mouse cursor becomes the light source that dynamically lights up a 3D object:
Excellent Shopping Cart Designs: Showcase and Best... →
Shopping cart optimization has always been a challenge for online retailers. To the end-user, it seems like a simple step to purchasing, however there are many factors that go into having a…
Samsung Galaxy S “Hummingbird” chip to have 3x GPU... →
Did you know the Samsung Galaxy S contains the fastest graphics processing unit of any Android phone? Neither did I because Samsung felt that spec wasn’t important enough to include in their …
Free iPad GUI Kit In PSD Format →
After the popularity of iPhone applications where (web) developers are creating so many new ones each day, it won’t be wrong to expect the same for iPad.
In order to design for the iPad easier, …
Facebook Bullies Small-time App Developer →
Yet another small apps developer is feeling the pinch from a big company, this time from Facebook.
Fluff-Busting Purity, a Greasemonkey script that removes annoying notifications…
19 css html calendars for your next web... →
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes and therefore makes it essential element for web application. I have collected 19 html…
Presenting the Great New Features of jQuery UI 1.8 →
The final version of jQuery UI 1.8 just got released a few days ago. I will go through all new features and also show you some examples with the new widgets.
Along with the hundreds of bug…
Open Source To-Do-List Manager: PlanCake →
PlanCake is an open source task and list manager which can be downloaded/installed to a custom location or used from plancake.com for free.
The application is fully Ajaxed, tasks can be…
Visualizing the Daily Traffic Patterns in Lisbon →
Traffic in Lisbon condensed in one day [mondeguinho.com] presents several visual experiments that map the routes of about 1,534 (taxi?) vehicles during 24 hours in Lisbon. Watch the…
Data URIs →
Did you know that you don’t have to link to an external image file when using an <img> element in HTML, or declaring a background-image in CSS? You can embed the image data directly into the…
While reviewing a quote for a rush job that would... →
While reviewing a quote for a rush job that would require working through the weekend, client commented that paying extra seemed wrong. His famous last words:
“I’m giving you a break from your…
200+ Free Spray Paint Brushes for Photoshop →
We try to provide readers with links to resources that will make designing easier, more effective, and more fun. Today we have a collection of free Photoshop brushes that will allow you to easily…
setTimeout: how to get the shortest delay →
We have all been there with our setTimeout(func, 0), but how close to 0 does it get?
The intrepid David Baron of Mozilla delves into the delay in setTimeout and comes out with some interesting…
50 Stunning Typography Wallpapers For Inspiration →
By János Rácz
Typography is said to be the backbone of web design, but it’s also considered art all by itself. And, let’s face it, most designers are obsessed with…
Sponsor Flip Wall With jQuery & CSS →
Designing and coding a sponsors page is part of the developer’s life (at least the lucky developer’s life, if it is about a personal site of theirs). It, however, follows different rules than those…
Purely CSS – Faking Different Color Columns →
The Goal
We want to create a layout with two columns, each a different color, yet have both colors extend the the edge of the browser.
If you would like to see an example of this,…
The Definitive Color Wheel →
Selecting a color has not always been something that was a few clicks away. Color used to be collected from pigments of the earth and then died into fabric. You had to collect the berries to make…
jPhotoGrid – Zoomable jQuery Image Gallery →
jPhotoGrid takes a simple list of images and captions and turns it into a grid of photos that can be explored and zoomed. Nearly all of the styling for this plugin is done in css. The trick is to…
A few things I’ve learned about typeface design →
By Gerry Leonidas
Teaching on a postgraduate course feels very much like a spiral: the annual repetition of projects, each a vehicle for a journey of education and discovery for the student, blurs…
Free Geographical Database Of All Countries (Over... →
GeoNames is a set of free and downloadable geographical databases of all countries which includes over 8 million place names.
The data comes in tab-delimited + utf-8 formatted text files and …
+180 Massive Minimalistic Icon set →
A minimalistic icon set which is available in a range of various colours, which includes over 175 icons all in one set available to be used in commercial design projects.
The…
Achieve Brilliant Lighting Effects in Photoshop →
Lighting effects can make or break any digital artwork. When done properly, lighting can add visual impact, draw the viewer’s eye, convey depth and emotion, and tie together all the elements of the…
Windows 7 window using CSS3 und jQuery →
Windows 7 Fenster mit CSS3 & jQuery - Du findest das Interfacedesign von Windows 7 ansehnlich und interessierst dich für CSS3? Dann bist du hier genau richtig. Denn im weiteren Verlauf…
22 Handy HTML5 & CSS3 Tools, Resources And... →
HTML5 and CSS3 are bringing new features to us and in this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features.
Maybe…
A Brief Look at Grid-Based Layouts in Web Design →
Take a look at some of the biggest sites out there today that are showcasing top-notch designs. It’s very likely they’ve used a grid of some sort. Grids enable stability and structure in a…
Testing the Internet Explorer Platform Preview... →
At MIX10 yesterday, Microsoft announced IE9 and spoke about its upcoming features. And, lo and behold, they released a Internet Explorer Platform Preview for anyone to download and play around…
jQuery Presentation Plugin: Say NO to Keynote! →
I think I’m going to stop using Keynote & Powerpoint forever.
At Viget, we get the opportunity to present a topic to the rest of the company; we call them Lab Shares. This gives us all the chance…
html5media - Project Hosting on Google Code →
HTML5 video and audio for everyone!
HTML5 video and audio tags make embedding media into documents as easy as embedding an image. All it takes is a single <video> or <audio> tag….
Drop shadow with CSS for all web browsers →
One of the most common CSS effects is using shadows in various ways. Before, we needed to resort to images, but now we can offer this to all major web browser with CSS!
Web browser support
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