Interesting web development related websites

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References, Tutorials, Tips

  • The Open Source Web Design Toolbox A collection of over 100 references to open-source CSS-Templates, tools, services and Wordpress-themes.
  • iPhone for Web Developers - Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone These guidelines will help you prepare web content and design a website or web-based application for iPhone. If you are a seasoned web developer, there are probably just a few refinements you can make to ensure that your site looks great and works best on iPhone. Hopefully the hype won’t create the trend “Viewed only with iPhone” - we’ve seen this before. Besides: IUI Framework for iPhone-applications.
  • TutorialFeed This website crawler is tutorial indexing website which is fully automated. The spider goes around and picks up little morsels and tutorials, and automatically adds them to our database. The site covers dozens of design-related topics - from Photoshop via Dreamweaver to CSS - and indexes over 90 feeds. Tutorial Feed
  • New elements in HTML 5 No one really knows when HTML 5 will finally released or implemented. However, new elements are already known. In fact, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio. New interactive elements include details, datagrid, and command.
  • Testing CSS 3 CSS 3 offers (among other things) 10 new properties, such as border-radius, opacity, text-stroke, border-image or text-shadow. CSS3 properties tests for webkit based browsers, including the iPhone prove: CSS 3 is (mostly) supported only by Safari 3. Tested browsers: Safari 2, Safari 3, iPhone, Mozilla 1.7, Opera 9 und IE 7.
  • @media 2007 | Europe The last annual @media-conference for profesional designers and developers took place in June 2007. If you’ve missed the opportunity to be there, you can download some presentations, podcasts and talks. Among speakers are Molly E. Holzschlag, Jason Santa Maria, Dan Cederholm, Drew McLellan, Simon Collison and Jesse James Garrett.
  • High Scalability This site tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence. Hopefully this site will move you further and faster along the learning curve of success.
  • Design Float Design Float is a Digg style, community driven news aggregator dedicated to the design industry. Design Float aims to collect and organize design-related content from accross the web while lettting the community float the best articles to the top pages of their categories and sink the most irreleveant one’s to the bottom.

    Design Float

  • In Praise of Wordpress Template Tags, Part II: The Magazine Layout Sample scenario: a client needs your help in realizing his dodgy dream of starting an online men’s magazine in the vein of GQ or Details. His existing site already runs the standard Wordpress blog format, but now he’s seeking a more ambitious, exploded-view layout to accommodate a variety of content modules and features. The article explains how the solution might look like.
  • The Learn List A growing collection of references to tutorials - among covered topics are Flash, Photoshop, Firefworks, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Actionscript, PHP, CSS and XML.
  • The dashed line in use Graphic design offers more approaches and design solutions with dashed lines than you probably think it does. This article presents many of them. “Even though the dashed line has emerged from a designer’s shorthand and from the limitations of monotone printing techniques, it has a clear and simple visual magic, the ability to express something three- or four-dimensional in two dimensions.”

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  • Three Universal methods of reducing complexity Complex designs can be done quicker than the simple ones. How to reduce the complexity effectively? How to create a clean and minimalistic solution? The key is the Partitioning of content (Reducing the number of factors that have to be dealt with simultaneously), a solid Hierarchy (The shape of the hierarchy is important and should reflect the functionality of the system) and visible Independence of site elements (The most important idea behind a lot of structured design is “High Module Independence”).
  • Infographics news: Life of a graphic Óscar Corvera describes the development of Infographics for print-media. His example was awarded by Society for News Design with the Excellence Award. More about Data Visualization and Infographic in our article Data Visulization: Modern Approaches.
  • Anti-Grain Geometry - Texts Rasterization Exposures An attempt to improve the quality of text presentation on screen, to present the state of current developments and explain current techniques.

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  • The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web The so called text effects or type effects are carefully hidden guilty pleasures that most designers enjoy to try, but would never dare to apply in real life work. For those that love text effects and have the courage to admit it, here’s a thorough guide to the best 80 text effects available on the Web.
  • The Web Designers Tool Kit An overview of useful resources for designers and web-developers. Nothing new, but still useful.
  • Cool Workspaces The more comfortable you feel in your working place, the more effectively you get your work done. 40 elegant work places of professional designers in a brief overview.

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  • Advanced use of Google Analytics and the new interface This article describes the functionality of recently renewed Google Analytics and mentions some methods and obscure interaction you can employ to use Google Analytics effectively.