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Designing an Intranet

An intranet is a business productivity tool ... article at Digital web Magazine. [...]

Mayang's Free Textures v9.4

Useful set of textures for design at Mayang's Free Textures, although not as cool as the patterns found at Squidfingers. [...]

Framed

Interesting article on frames at The Man In Blue. [...]

5K

This seems a bit dated now (which makes it an even stiffer challenge today) but it's worth having a look at the5k.org. It is quite a challenge to cr [...]

PNG Alpha Mask Demo

Very interesting experiment for Mozilla based browsers only: PNG Alpha Mask Demo. [...]

PHP For Designers

Article for designers at Digital Web Magazine. [...]

iCapture

If you want to see what your new web page design looks like in other browsers, you can create a screenshot using the iCapture service. Available br [...]

Scalable Vector Graphics

Working Draft: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2The SVG Working Group has released the sixth public Working Draft of "Scalable Vector graphics (SVG) [...]

Animated GIF Backgrounds in CSS

This could be a useful feature to have: background animated GIF's [...]

A Recipe for Learning Web Design

Good article at Digital Web Magazine [...]

fix broken links

I've been using XENU, an excellent wee program to check my sites for broken links, for a wee while now and I'd recommend it heartily. It's FREE and [...]

malevole

Matt Round's weblog malevole, created purely to experiment with new interfaces and ideas ... I must see for an inventive and fresh approach to prov [...]

well designed weblogs 2

Lars Holst has kindly included my doepud effort in his 2nd list of well-designed weblogs. Thanks! [...]

Validate your site

After Jeffrey Zeldman's high profile grumble regarding a bug in the W3C HTML validator, they fixed it!. I was considering, other than Bobby, what [...]

Above the fold

Very interesting article on the Digital Web Magazine mentioning 'the fold' in web design.Yes, 'the fold' is where the page cuts off in a user's bro [...]

Dynamic @import CSS files using PHP

Here is an inter esting article and discussion on browser sniffing to assess which stylesheet to load up. The main priority here is to detect Intern [...]

Generate Favicons

Useful wee program to generate favicons for your site without having to mess about too much. Generate favicons.Associated with the excellent HTML [...]

Robots Exclusion

Web Server Administrator's Guide to the Robots Exclusion Protocol. This page gives you a run-through of what to include in your robots.txt file. H [...]

Ask me before asking

Questions to ask your "web designer" before hiring ... is a good article on the maki is not a nameless cat site. [...]

The IE Factor

For the last 6 months or so I've been getting into a system where I develop new sites firstly in Firebird and then check periodically (every 30 minu [...]

Web Design Mistakes 2003

From Jakob Nielson's Alertbox:Sites are getting better at using minimalist design, maintaining archives, and offering comprehensive services. Howeve [...]

Overlib

I've been using Overlib for a wee while now, and meant to have a link to Erik Bosrup's site before now. He has produced a handy wee rollover featur [...]

Another PHP styleswitcher

Here's another PHP styleswitcher, that uses a session variable rather than cookies: DevArticles. [...]

Designing with Web Standards

At my work, designing with web standards is a hot topic.Here is a set of slides from a lecture given by Jeffrey Zeldman on Designing with web Standar [...]

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