As a web developer, if you’re to be successful, you have to have a constant yearning for learning new things. Here’s 20 websites that have broadened my knowledge, expanded my skill set, and improved the quality and efficiency of my web development projects.
Human body retouching - a collection of the 33 best Photoshop tutorials.
Blog-well.com has put together a list of over 100 resources to help make your life as a developer easier; where to find snippets of code, sites that automate processes, cheat sheets, lessons, useful tools and a couple of silly videos to give your brain a break if you make it through to the end.
New versions of the MacBook Pro have been released today. They come loaded with 2.4/2.5/2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processors, and new trackpad which allows for multi-touch gestures. Hard Drive storage is now 200/250GB, two SO-DIMM slots (PC2-5300 DDR2-667MHz) support up to 4GB, also the MacBook Pro has 800MHz frontside bus. For graphics, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor with dual-link DVI support; 256MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.4GHz configuration; 512MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.5GHz and 2.6GHz configurations.
In this post there are 50 new CSS techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. You definitely know some of them, but definitely not all of them.
The following 9 very useful websites that provide services such as browser based chat (meebo.com), sells cool gadgets for cheap (woot.com), selling handmade things (etsy.com) and more. There were still some extremely useful websites that were left out, so webupon.com wrote a continuation article to cover these sites.
- Don’t make users think.
- Don’t squander users’ patience.
- Manage to focus users’ attention.
- Strive for feature exposure.
- Make use of effective writing.
- Strive for simplicity.
- Don’t be afraid of the white space.
- Communicate effectively with a “visible language”.
- Conventions are our friends.
- Test early, test often.
Go read the full article at smashingmagazine.com
I’m sketching out some ideas for my new business card design, since the cards are running out. Just reprint? No way. For me, I must design new cards every time I finish the previous batch. I found this via Digg.com. There are 18 cool card designs in this article. Maybe I’ll get some inspiration.
My current card design. Click on it to view larger.
Links to 100 PS tutorials, each one starts as a thumbnail that can be hovered over to display more information.
“An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design…”
