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IE6 Nears The End

On July 3rd, 2008 the excellent web-application company 37Signals announced the phasing out of support for IE6 for their suite of online productivity tools. Someone had to go first. Now it appears that Google has joined the chorus of web application suppliers who no longer want to support Microsoft’s IE6 browser. IE6 was release back [...]

Black Triangles

Black Triangles: … are important accomplishments that take a lot of effort to achieve, but upon completion you don’t have much to show for it — only that more work can now proceed.

Color Palette Helper

Two sites that exist to help in the selection of a site palette include Colour Lovers & Adobe’s Kuler.

Banner & Advert Sizes

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) provides guidelines for graphic designers when creating banners, pop-ups, animated .gifs etc… The main goal is to come up with some standard sizes for advertisements so the creative department doesn’t need to render the same banner in 5 slightly different sizes & aspect ratios. Check out their condensed guide including [...]

Swiffer sIFR Upper

An interesting hybrid HTML/Flash technique for maintaining absolute control of fonts across platforms. Uses presence of Flash to load HTML and present with Flash fonts. Also requires JavaScript to be enabled.

Best Of Breed Web Designs

From Rockstar WordPress: BestWebGallery – http://bestwebgallery.com A gallery of mostly non-flash design that includes a large number of blogs. WebCreme – http://webcreme.com Similar to BestWebGallery, WebCreme is another great source of blog designs. SmashingMagazine – http://smashingmagazine.com Smashing is a blog itself, and although about web design in general, devotes a large number of posts to [...]

Collis’ Ebook

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