Category: Tools
Software and such, plus helpful sites and gadgets.
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This Machine Kills Pixels: Khoi Vinh on Design & Design Tools
Khoi Vinh (@khoi) is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest this week. Khoi is a a Principle Designer at Adobe, design chair at Wildcard, and former design director at NYTimes.com. He blogs at subtraction.com. Over a cordial hour,…
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HTML5 Video Player II
JOHN DYER’S MediaElement.js bills itself as “HTML5 <video> and <audio> made easy”—and that’s truly what it is: HTML5 audio and video players in pure HTML and CSS. Custom Flash and Silverlight players that mimic the…
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HTML5 Video Player
Free & Open Source Lightweight. NO IMAGES USED 100% skinnable using CSS Library independent Easy to use Easy to understand & extend Consistent look between browsers Full Screen & Full Window Modes Volume Control Forced…
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Advanced web design links
FROM MY TWITTER STREAM of late: The Heads-Up Grid is an overlay grid for use during in-browser website development, built with HTML + CSS + JavaScript. http://t.co/EcgTkcD # Golden Grid System – a folding grid…
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Responsive Web Design – The Book
SOME IDEAS SEEM inevitable once they arrive. It’s impossible for me to conceive of the universe before rock and roll or to envision Christmas without Mr Dickens’s Carol, and it’s as tough for my kid…
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Own Your Data
Captured from Twitter, here is Tom Henrich’s partial reconstruction of my conversation with Tantek Çelik, Glenda Bautista, Andy Rutledge and others on the merits of self-hosting social content and publishing to various sites rather than…
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Science illustrations, cost and royalty free
The IAN symbol libraries contain over 1500 custom made vector symbols designed specifically for enhancing science communication skills. The libraries are designed primarily for use with Adobe Illustrator (requires version 10 or better), however we…
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Cure for the Common Webfont, Part 2: Alternatives to Georgia
For nearly fifteen years, if you wanted to set a paragraph of web text in a serif typeface, the only truly readable option was Georgia. But now, in web type’s infancy, we’re starting to see…
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Episode 29: Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, will be our guest Thursday December 2nd, 2010 during Episode No. 29 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”), co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and recorded at 1:00…
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Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.
Now we have something else to be thankful for. Nathan Smith of Sonspring has created a library that gives designers and developers “some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as…
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BBEdit Revised, Reviewed.
I RECENTLY ATE dinner with a friend I hadn’t seen in 20 years. If you are in a position to do likewise, I highly recommend the experience. So much had changed, yet so much was…
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How to use TextMate
For nearly 13 years, I created websites with PageSpinner, a charmingly old-fashioned HTML coding environment from the days of Netscape 1.0. But two years ago, seeking updated web page encoding and other modern conveniences, I…
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HTML5, CSS3 default templates
Free for use in all web projects, professional or personal, HTML5 Reset by Monkey Do! is a set of HTML5 and CSS templates that jumpstart web development by removing the styling native to each browser,…
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10K Apart – inspire the web!
Just launched and just wonderful! The 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart hearkens back to Stewart Butterfield’s 5k Contest of yesteryear while anticipating the…
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UI Design Framework for Web Designers
Vincent (no last name given) has designed a beautiful, extremely useful, feature-rich interface design framework for web designers who create their initial design mock-ups in Adobe Illustrator. And it’s free for personal or commercial use…