Category Archives: Website Design

The top 500 fonts on the Web

Posted on April 8, 2007 by admin

I have kind of a secret fetish for good free fonts, so Fonts 500, a site that has collected the top 500 popular fonts used on the Web, is definitely on my good list. You can preview each font using … Continue reading →

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Create your own Web 2.0 logos

Posted on March 3, 2007 by admin

Want to create a logo using that hard-to-define but easy-to-recognize Web 2.0 style? Tech blog Hongkiat.com shows you how. You’ll need Photoshop and a downloadable "style" file provided by the author. This file includes the necessary elements to recreate six … Continue reading →

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Free fonts at UrbanFonts

Posted on February 14, 2007 by admin

If you’re looking for a few new fonts to spice up your presentation or document, head over to UrbanFonts, a site with pay-for and freebie fonts. I’m no designer but lots of these look fun and interesting. The free offerings … Continue reading →

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Simile

Posted on January 20, 2007 by admin

SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the MIT Libraries and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate … Continue reading →

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Timeline

Posted on January 20, 2007 by admin

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally. Timeline website

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Exhibit

Posted on January 19, 2007 by admin

Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code. It’s like Google Maps and Timeline, but … Continue reading →

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Create your own icon at the Tiny Icon Factory

Posted on January 8, 2007 by admin

Make your own wee little icon with the Tiny Icon Factory, a site where you can also browse through tens of thousands other tiny little icons. You can use tiny icons in a variety of ways; on a website, blog, … Continue reading →

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Making Compact Forms More Accessible

Posted on December 21, 2006 by admin

Space constraints can put the squeeze on accessibility and usability. Mike Brittain shares his method for making itty-bitty forms more accessible and easier to use. From A List Apart

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How to design a logo of letters

Posted on December 20, 2006 by admin

Design magazine Before & After shows you how to turn letters into a logo using a variety of techniques. These include creating a mid-letter crossbar, removing part of a letter’s stroke, interlocking letters and more. The examples are all colorfully … Continue reading →

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Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns

Posted on December 11, 2006 by admin

A flexible and attractive CSS-based dropdown menu that supports multiple levels: The original Suckerfish Dropdowns article published in A List Apart proved to be a popular way of implementing lightweight, accessible CSS-based dropdown menus that accommodated Internet Explorer by mimicking … Continue reading →

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