Today, I’d like to do something very simple: give you my personal reading list. These blogs know what they’re talking about – do yourself a favor and visit them regularly.
Design Shard
CSS Tricks
Six Revisions
A List Apart
Function
Smashing Magazine
Noupe
Design Mag
Before & After Magazine
Good luck!
The Pen tool is a very important piece of several different design programs. It is probably most integral, though, to Adobe Illustrator. It’s also a complicated tool to master. This is the first in a multi-part series designed to break down the tool and make it more approachable.
As a web designer, one of the biggest issues I have is finding the right typography for my sites. Using Cascading Style Sheets, we can plan out every facet of the type design on our sites, but you have to get a handle on each setting. That’s why CSS Typeset is one of my favorite sites.
Patterns help our brains determine relationships between things. You can use patterns to help all parts of your design. Today we’ll focus on typography.
The website Kuler from Adobe is a very powerful tool for the forces of beauty and useability. It’s perfect for people like me – people who freeze up when someone asks them ‘which shade of purple is better for this?’
