In General Jul 3, 20090
Weekly Design News Round Up
In this weeks roundup, we have even more cool resources, there is a little bit of design inspiration, some great CSS lifesavers, an essential Twitter Guide Book and more…and best of all the Worlds Biggest Alarm Clock!
10 Super Creative Business Cards
If your thinking of getting a new business card to impress everyone, here is a little inspiration for you. This selection, from Abduzeedo, showcases the type of business cards that stand out from the crowd, they are certainly different and very creative.
10 Super Creative Business Cards
The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources
In this post you will find a thorough collection of all kinds of resources that will aid designers and developers working with Joomla-powered websites. This collection is intended to simplify your tasks and save you time when working with Joomla. This post covers essential resources related to Joomla— Themes, Extensions, Tutorials, Forums, Cheat Sheets and Useful Documents.
The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources
Worlds Biggest Alarm Clock
This video shows one of the entries into the edge.ca’s “Worlds Biggest” contest, The Worlds Biggest Alarm Clock. This is awesome.
It was built by mounting a large air cylinder to the head of his bed and a valve controlled by a computer which is programmed to wake you up in the morning.
35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
This post, from Smashing Magazine, 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design will significantly improve your workflow and reduce your time and efforts for CSS-coding. Whether you’re writing, compiling, refining or experimenting with CSS code , these tools can help you get the job done faster and better than ever before. A must bookmark.
35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions
The Twitter Guide Book is the most comprehensive guide to Twitter you could ever find, it covers the basics as well as an indepth look at Twitter and business, sharing via Twitter and managing your Twitter stream. Is your Twitter getting out of control? This is the guide for you.
Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions
56 Light & Clean Website Designs Using A Minimalist Color Scheme
56 Light & Clean Website Designs Using A Minimalist Color Scheme
Ceiling Porn
Definetly not what you are thinking by the posts title, this is actually a showcase of the best designed ceilings. Some are remarkable, others seemingly impossible, have a look for yourselves.
Even MSN.com isn’t IE6 compliant!
Judging by the above images, Microsoft ignored their own browser when it came to design. As you can see the new “Bing” search is hovering over the main navigation. Mom’s around the world are freaking out because they can’t click on their Hotmail.
Even MSN.com isn’t IE6 compliant!
14 Bizarre Japanese Toys
No one does weird toys like Japan does weird toys… from presidential action figures to toilet training tigers, this post has the strangest and most bizarre Japanese toys ever.
The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time
What do murder, pedophilia, suicide and a baby tiger have in common? They have all been used to sell stuff in these amazingly disturbing vintage ads!
These are real, untouched advertisements from the good old days. It doesn’t matter if it’s lovely ladies or adorable clowns, somehow these old-time ad wizards found ways to traumatize us while pedaling everyday products.
The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).
Read moreIn Tips Jul 1, 20096
PHP Security: Guidelines to Lock Down Your Website
Security has always been a concern of web developers. No site is safe from hacking attempts. Developers need to take precautions when building their applications so that they don’t become the victim of a hacking attempt. There are a number of things PHP programmers can do to prevent these kinds of attacks.
In General, Inspiration Jun 29, 20097
Incredible Workspaces: Part II
Read the first part here: Incredible Workspaces: Part I.
Setting up your office has to be perfect, it has got to be tailored to your professional and personal needs, it needs to get your creative and inspirational juices flowing, it has to have limited distractions, speedy access to all the tools of your trade and if possible, have all the coolest and latest gadgetry that you budget allows.
In General Jun 26, 20092
Weekly Design News Round Up
This is a new weekly feature from us, a weekly round-up of the best, the coolest and the most resourceful from within the design community.
This week we feature some cool resources, ranging from jQuery, Wordpress, typography and we even have a Macbook that transforms into a speace ship, you have to see this!
In Tips Jun 25, 200910
23 Indispensible Ajax and Javascript Cheat Sheets
JavaScript has always been one of the most popular programming languages on the web, and with the arrival of AJAX it quickly became the number one choice for pro web developers.
With the rapid rise of Javascript and Ajax many frameworks and libraries have been created by developers, namely MooTools, Scriptaculous, Prototype, and, of course the ever more popular and versatile jQuery.
In Tips Jun 23, 200913
Essential Practices for Styling Your CSS
Writing CSS leaves an immense amount of time in the hands of the coder. When it comes to CSS, each and every designer has his or her very own special method to coding. With Cascading Style-Sheets you can virtually do anything you want, which is mostly valuable, however, if you are inexperienced, it can most certainly hurt you in the long run. Most of the designers and developers only accomplish to scratch the surface of the amazing abilities of CSS.
In Inspiration Jun 18, 200928
29 Classic Horror Movie Poster Designs
When it comes to movies, the advertising poster is your porthole to what you can expect from the actual movie (or, what the studios want you to expect). One of the most popular genres is horror.
Horror seems to generates the most imaginative of posters. Have a look at the Saw posters, they are simple, but very creepy, certainly effective and they make you curious. Whereas the Cannibal Holocaust poster tells you exactly what you are going to get, gore, gore and lots of gore. Below you will see 29 amazing examples of the various types of horror movie posters.
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