Category: Web Design

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Web Design

IM Creator XPS

IM Creator’s XPS looks to be an interesting visual website design tool akin to Squarespace‘s visual editor. I have only used Squarespace on a handful of website and the biggest drawback is their monthly billing over buying the software outright. XPS seems to be more affordable for developers and has a great free option for students and non-corporate work. Personally I’m getting sick and tired of all this website building with code and long for the future when the tools will be more akin to InDesign than the movie Hackers.

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Web Design

Top Pens of 2014 on CodePen

Top Pens of 2014 on CodePen are just that. There is a pretty impressive range of code and features in the selections. Definitely worth a look.

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Web Design

CSS Guidelines

css guidelines

CSS Guidelines: High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS. Pretty great advice here for those constructing well documented collaborative stylesheets.

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Web Design

New Default Web Colors

If you have ever gazed dazed at the default web colors wishing they were not a garish mess, perhaps you might appreciate Colors. An more elegant open source replacement of the defaults.

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Design Web Design

The Great Discontent

The Great Discontent may be one of the best designed magazine websites ever.

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Web Design

iCheck

iCheck is a jQuery and Zepto plugin, that makes pretty customized checkboxes for your swanky websites. Very nice.

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Web Design

Unheap jQuery Library

unheap

Unheap is a wonderfully curated collection of jQuery plugins with charming explanatory illustrations.

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Everyday Web Design

Form Follows Function

Form Follows Function

Form Follows Function is a site full of mind boggling examples of what can be done with HTML instead of flash.

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Photographs Photography Wordpress

Pressgram

Pressgram

Pressgram is an Instagram like image sharing app built for WordPress. Best of all, you retain full ownership of your images. Support it on Kickstarter!

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Web Design

ImageOptim

ImageOptim

I guarantee my jpgs, gifs and pngs are smaller than yours. That’s because of ImageOptim. This utility is a mandatory step when I create websites. It runs, at the time of this writing, 9 separate image optimization tools on your images to reduce their sizes. Best of all it is totally lossless, only removes pieces of information you don’t use, and is Free!