35 Designers x 5 Questions

I'm always on the look out for great web design and CSS tips. There's no lack of either on the web. I usually stumble over dozens of them - all claiming to be the best thing since sliced images - and they soon become very bland. Here's one that stuck out for me.

Smashing Magazine (which does look like a rather smashing magazine) asked 35 web designers five design related questions. The answers are a wealth of knowledge. The amount of knowledge in the invisible college of web design is staggering, and quite disconcerting to new web designers. The best shortcuts, tips and of course IE bug workarounds are divulged openly. It's a great place to touch up your design skills and add a couple tricks to your toolbox.

Great Icon Tutorial

Ah, the anatomy of an icon. Luckily this sneaky little webpage squirmed through the web filter at work. Yes - that's right in this tutorial you get to see naked icons, built from the canvas up. There are no holds barred - its a great tutorial for all front end developers, graphic designers and all sorts of icon admirers. Great stuff. Great tut.

http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2004/08/23/anatomy.html

More Online Writing Tips ...

I posted a note about writing for online content a while back. At the time I couldn't find any articles specifically for Web and online writing. Here's a nice site that I found stumbling.

http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/

neatfonts.com

I found this catch on blendernation.com. Neatfonts.com is a free online font library. I always find it hard to find a good font and usually end up going with something plain, so I am always looking for good font sites. Neatfonts.com is nice and easy with a ton of really nice looking fonts and quick and easy download.

Moofx and Script.aculo.us

There’s actually two websites for today. The first is moofx, which is a simple javascript library that allows for cool dynamic html effects. Probably the coolest is the accordion effect, which is really effective. Click on the headings of each section and see how they fold up. Fantastic. I didn’t get round to using it, but it looks really simple and has minimal extra code to use.

http://moofx.mad4milk.net/

The second one is script.aculo.us which is a more hardcore javascript library with some fantastic effects. This one is for the more hardcore web developers, and might require a bit more to get it working with your pages, but it sure is worth it. Be sure to check out the demos page.

http://script.aculo.us/