Here’s a collection of 10 powerful AJAX effects to enhance your web page’s interface. All of which are fairly easy-to-implement and feature how-to tutorials that will guide you during implementation.
There comes a point in time where we want to improve our website’s interface or provide a captivating experience that our users will remember.
Being a web designer can be difficult at times, always striving for creativity in your design and new techniques that will dazzle your clients/users. Sometimes we need inspiration from other designers to turn that creative spark into a flame.
Smashing Magazine has posted yet another incredibly inspiring list of 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective web design. You may already know some of them but definitely not all of them.
My personal favorite on the list is #22 CSS Dock Menu (shown below) but I assure you that everything is worth taking a look at.
Next to coding, I enjoy to design. I also find my self spending a great deal of time editing photos, designing graphics for websites etc. My favorite tool used in completing these tasks, has to be Adobe Photoshop.
With a good tool like Adobe Photoshop, you’ll need some good resources; Fonts, Plug-ins such as Brushes and Textures, Stock photos and other things that will help you out a great deal when designing.
Here’s a list of some good photoshop design resources.
I found this utility, CSS Grid Builder the other day on yahoo, It’s quite useful.
A simple interface for grids customization. Its a web based application thats easy to use and very user friendly. I used it to start a custom Wordpress Theme that I’ve been working on these last couple of days.
Learn more about the CSS Grid builder on Yahoo Developers Network: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/
Or go right to the builder: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/
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