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Color
Study Tool - lets you play with browser-safe
colors. Be sure to try all the options especially the ones on the
bottom right. (Thanks go to Mike Kane for this treasure) |
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Font Empire -
Get the latest and greatest fonts, themes, screensavers, and wallpapers.
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| Picks
of the Week - 11.07.2000 |
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GoodDocuments.com
- This site shows you how to write everyday
documents for the new Web medium. This site, www.gooddocuments.com,
gives ideas on how to write and organize when your main target
is linked pages to be read on-screen, e.g., for reading with a
browser on an Intranet.
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Terrific
Type Tips - Have
you ever wondered how you could pull together that look/feel of
a professional site? Typography--the art of communicating through
specifying, positioning, and layering type can help pull your
site together. And this tutorial gives you several tips on ways
to pull it together. It covers everything from white-space to
balancing type on the page.
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of the Week - 10.07.2000 |
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HTML Goodies
- Developer.com
maintains several unique properties which enhance the site's core
professional developer offerings. Each of these affiliate sites
bring an award-winning level of content and recognized prestige
within the development community. Current sites in the developer.com
family include JARS, javascripts.com, Intranet Journal and HTML
Goodies.
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Internet World -
Internet World magazine, the Internet World News daily e-newsletter,
and the Internet Everywhere weekly e-newsletter are written and
edited by a staff of experienced journalists who were covering
the Internet before it was a multibillion-dollar industry. The
magazine got its start in 1995 as "Web Week."
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| Picks
of the Week - 07.05.2000 |
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Web Page Design for
Designers - The purpose of this site
is not to teach people how to produce web pages. But it is a good
resource for anyone who needs to view web design from a "print"
designers perspective covering the following topics: design, interface
and navigation. |
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In Your
Face or Interface? -
Every day we use some type of interface from an automatic teller
machine to a debit payment device in the grocery store.
You
can always recognize bad interface design because it's difficult
to use. However, good interface design is transparent and rarely
noticed. Successful products have at least one commonality, good
interface design.
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of the Week - 06.05.2000 |
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Berkeley Multimedia Research Center's Guide
to Digitizing Content for the Web - This
guide is intended to give you a simple introduction to the world
of RealMedia. This guide describes the steps necessary to digitize
and present to the web a RealVideo clip. Though the instructions
specify specific computers, the basic techniques should be applicable
in most circumstances. |
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The Joy of Javascript -
This is a wonderful visual guide to using javascript on your site
intelligently. Did you ever want to learn how to use a pop up
window for instructions? Do you want to find out what plug-ins
your users have? Do you want to update information from one page
into a separate window? You can find these practical tips on this
site.
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| Picks
of the Week - 05.12.2000 |
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HTML-Kit:
Nice 'N Tidy - Why on earth do you
need another HTML editor? You probably don't. But HTML-Kit goes
beyond the realm of HTML, offering a variety of extensible modules
that help you work with XHTML and XML, too. And what's more--HTML-Kit
is free!
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Custom Bullets -
Get ready, aim, and fire off a few rounds of custom bullets this
week as Chuck Musciano shows you how to use images with style.
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Hot Design
Tips - Despite the wide-open
parameters, I began to notice some common threads as the tips
trickled in. Many designers felt it was important to understand
the medium, design for bandwidth constraints, create an end product
that works for both the user and the client, and, of course, play
the right tunes while designing.
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Information Architecture
Tutorial - Information
architecture is the science of figuring out what you want your site
to do and then constructing a blueprint before you dive in and put
the thing together. It's more important than you might think, and
John Shiple, aka Squishy, tells you why. |
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