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Architectural features - gates
Below are a few of the latest books on Design. Read more on the books with our customer and publisher reviews and comments.
History of Design
The Story of Art by E. H Gombrich
Web Design and Usability
Prioritizing Web Usability, Jakob Nielson
Fashion
Sample: 100 Fashion Designers,10 Curators , Bronwyn Cosgrave
On Design
The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher
1000 Graphic Elements: Special Details for Distinctive Designs
Books On CSS
Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
The ZEN of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
Blog or sort of ...
On webmasterworld an interesting discussion on browser width - most web developers have stuck with the width of 800px for a long time as many people used small monitors, yet for people using larger monitors (and many people have 20"plus size monitors) a 800 wide web page looks, well kind of old fashioned. One member of webmasterworld mentioned that the Times online have now moved to 1000px wide and no longer support users with small monitors. Funny enough a new website I am currently developing - Scottish Tour and Travel site, is 1000px wide as well.
Buy a larger TFT monitor on our online amazon shop
Widgets what are they and how to use them. The answer as always is on another website so go to WidgetBox and learn more, I am considering using them on some of my websites as they can help your visitors add your site to their social bookmarking site. I have just come across Add This site where you can use their social bookmark widget to allow users to add to bookmark. Try it with the button below:
Useful tool for analysing keywords
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Not sure how useful it is (above) you may find Overture and Wordtracker better.
Interesting article on using CSS to create rounded corners without using images / graphics - Nifty Corners on html.it (what a cool domain name!)
List is a list of websites I want to remember to visit again, that I may use the applications provided or just look cool. Hope you find them useful as well.
PunBB - discussion forum software, and you can see it used on the Solucija forum supporting the sNews Content Management System. I like the look of sNews and may well try it out on this website in the near future! If only there was more hrs in the day.
I need to create, or learn to create my own web templates and start contributing to the community, until I get the time I usually look around the net and pick up the odd free or open source web template. In this process I noticed Zymic and I am impressed with the tutorials and layout of this resource centre.
Useful articles on web design
Cool URIs don't change by By Tim Berners-Lee on the W3.org site part of the QA section and a gold mine of information.
Places I need to remember to look at again!
BrainJar.com - use of CSS and more
SSH is always useful to a web developer, do you know how to use it? then check out wiki article and openSSH for documentation and software.
Websites I like the design of include
Pod Consulting - http://www.podconsulting.com/
Web design and development
http://www.firedandinspired.com/
Web hosting
http://www.hostdepartment.com/ - Host department
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/ - Yahoo web hosting