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Web design resources

A huge selection of links to great web design resources. [...]

IE NetRenderer

This looks like a very useful free tool: IE NetRenderer takes a screen dump of a URL you provide in various versions of Internet Explorer, including I [...]

How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?

Mike Rundle presents four tips for making sure your website design isn't crap. [...]

Free icons

Nice collection of mostly free icons. [...]

Past, present, future creating for the web

Four developers and four designers were asked a bunch of commonly addressed questions about the way web do web design today. [...]

11 Almost Perfect Business Layouts

Nice selection of 'business' web designs... if you're looking for inspiration. [...]

43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

Some very good tips in this list including:The user must know what the site is about in secondsMake the content scannableDo not play music [...]

Find out when a web page was last updated

Here's a handy way to check the last updated date and time of a web page. Open up the web page you want to check and then type this into the address b [...]

A List Apart Web Design Survey

If you work in 'web design' in any way, then take a couple of minutes to complete the A List Apart Survey and win win some prizes like a free ticket t [...]

@media 2007

I've just signed up for an early bird ticket... [...]

19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website

Great list including:If your website does not work in Firefox, welcome to 2007 DUMBASSText navigations are better than imagesA well thought out site m [...]

5 grammatical errors that make you look dumb

From Copyblogger:Your vs. You'reIt's vs. ItsThere vs. TheirAffect vs. EffectThe Dangling Participle [...]

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part1)

Great list of web design tips and tricks - I like the Poll software idea. [...]

swfIR

swfIR (swf Image Replacement) is here to solve some of the design limitations of the standard HTML image and its widely-accepted associated CSS values [...]

This blog post disturbs me ever so slightly

Why you need to get rid of your freelance developer ASAP. [...]

Search as navigation

Within the industry, there is often perceived competition between search and navigation. Do we really need conventional site structures and navigation [...]

Freelancer?

Here's two loosely-related articles from Lifehacker that could prove useful:Why your proposals failHow to negotiate a great work contract [...]

The Words of Design: 2007

Keith D. Robinson predicts that the words we (as designers) will be using in 2007 are:ContextSimplicityEmpathyProblem-solvingStorytellingIterativeExpe [...]

Web Developers: 13 Command Line Tricks You Might Not Know

Some of these tips could come in useful if you have any need to be using the command line. [...]

Graceful Degradation & Progressive Enhancement

Another excellent article at Accessites by Tommy Olsson called Graceful Degradation & Progressive Enhancement [...]

If only I'd known! (tips for a new website)

Lots of useful tips anyone starting out in web design. I particularly like the print stylesheet suggestion. [...]

WCAG 2.0 developments

Jack Pickard provides some details on the latest develpments being made on the WCAG 2.0 spec. [...]

Where Did My Beautiful Internet Go?

Here's a timely piece about the state of web design on the internet these days. [...]

Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots

Thorough explanation of the measures you can take to stop spambots. Very similar to Mike Cherim's excellent 'Secure & Accessible PHP Contact Form' [...]

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