2006 was rich on creative, beautiful and unusual design concepts. We
’ve seen a lot of whitespace, many examples of readable and usable text-design, badges, stars, rounded corners, shapes, gradients, mirror and 3D-effects – just name it. Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful designs we’ve seen in 2006.
50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006
December 20, 2006 at 12:58 pm (!uncategorized)
Hundreds of Web Design Tools
December 19, 2006 at 9:29 am (!uncategorized)
This web site has hundreds of links to web design tools sorted by category and popularity. The site stores your favorites so you can reference them later. The categories on the site are: color, css, fonts, html, icons, images, inspiration, tutorials, and widgets. You can even add your own links.
Visual Database Explorer in Ruby
December 13, 2006 at 3:37 pm (!uncategorized)
A how-to for a quick visual database explorer in Ruby. Learn how to build a quick threaded web-server, access SQL databases from Ruby, and how to create SVG graphs on the fly. The result.. A dynamic visual browser to help you find that needle in the haystack of information hidden away in your databases!
Amazing Repository – 5000 Downloadable Corporate Logos
December 4, 2006 at 6:46 pm (!uncategorized)
A comprehensive list of nearly 5000 corporate logos in Illustrator format that can be downloaded for free: “All logos are available in Adobe Illustrator format and are compressed by ZIP.”
Data Generator for Developers
December 4, 2006 at 6:43 pm (!uncategorized)
“This little program lets you generate large volumes of random, custom data for use in testing software. Try messing around with it: you’ll soon figure it out! I’ve had to limit it to a maximum of 5000 results, since server resources are limited.”
Web 2.0 style buttons
November 27, 2006 at 4:08 pm (!uncategorized)
Nowadays Web 2.0 style becomes more popular. Every day tons of sites which has simple, bright and very interesting things, appear in Network. In this article author shows how to create Web 2.0 styled button using Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Cool Free CSS Tab Designer
November 21, 2006 at 9:15 am (!uncategorized)
A software that generates cool looking Cross Browser CSS Tabs
Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make a Web 2.0-Style Logo
November 13, 2006 at 5:42 pm (!uncategorized)
This is the first of a series of Adobe Photoshop tutorials on how to create a logo in “Web 2.0″ style. If you follow Web 2.0 closely, you’ll see similarities in the way logos are designed: Simple, glossed, gradient, bright-colored and often came with a slight reflection and a beta sign. Here’s a quick 6-minute video tutorial and some notes.
CSS-Based Forms, Modern Solutions
November 13, 2006 at 5:40 pm (!uncategorized)
Good examples of beautiful functional Web 2.0 forms. I know I’ll be including some variation of these in my next website.
300 Free Icons for Web Application Development
November 9, 2006 at 1:25 pm (!uncategorized)
You can’t build a slick application without good icons. Professional icons cost too much, most free icons suck and I know I don’t have the time to create a set of icons. Here is a site offering a full set of professionally designed icons for web applications for free. Digg it for later and save yourself the search..
Top 10 Ajax Tutorials for Beginners
November 7, 2006 at 9:26 am (!uncategorized)
A great list of the best tutorials and resources to learn what Ajax is, and how easily you can incorporate it into your own website. Great roundup
Top 10 CSS image gallery tutorials
November 6, 2006 at 11:35 am (!uncategorized)
There are many tutorials out there on how to create your own image gallery. There are simple ones made from pure CSS, and there are complex ones using css and javascript. By the end of this article you will have the information necessary to start building your own photo gallery.
The 35 Sexiest Designed Websites you’ve Forgotten, part 3
November 2, 2006 at 9:02 pm (!uncategorized)
Design Inspiration, especially for the upcoming CSS/Standards Reboots. The third edition of the biannual 35-sexiest list, this time with 23 CSS-based and 12 Flash-based designs. Hope you enjoy!
List of CSS Tools
October 23, 2006 at 1:52 pm (!uncategorized)
Huge List of CSS Tools : Fonts, Forms, Layout, Formatters and Optimizers
Geek to Live: Top 10 open source Windows apps
October 23, 2006 at 1:50 pm (!uncategorized)
Companies like Google and Microsoft give away free software as a courtesy to their users to hook more people on their services (”free as in beer.”) But open source organizations are often non-profit and made up of volunteer developers who release free software because they believe users have a right to control their data (”free as in speech.”)
Ultimate list of CSS hacks
October 23, 2006 at 1:48 pm (!uncategorized)
A list of table with all the CSS hacks and which Browsers they work in.
The Best CSS Galleries on one page.
October 23, 2006 at 1:45 pm (!uncategorized)
Cool site that aggregates the best CSS Sites from other CSS Galleries. Just like Popurls is for news this one is for CSS Galleries.
The best of “illegal websites”
October 23, 2006 at 1:43 pm (!uncategorized)
There are only a fraction of the illegal websites there was not more than 5 years ago. It is so easy to get software now a days from torrents and IRC sites it’s ridiculous.
The Top 10 Best WordPress Plugins
October 16, 2006 at 7:05 pm (!uncategorized)
If you use WordPress then you have to check out these 10 free plugins. Everything ranging from a sidebar widget to a Digg this button. All free too! Check it out..
Version 2.0 of JonDesign’s SmoothSlideshow Javascript Library is out
October 16, 2006 at 7:03 pm (!uncategorized)
The new version of this impressive little tool features useability improvements, major code rewrite (now using MooTools and objects), graphic changes and bugfixes.
As always, this lib provides a simple way to install great looking slideshow or showcases to your website, in less than 20kb of javascript code.
