So you’re browsing through your favorite website and found a site that uses a font you love. You want that font too, (and must be as quickly as possible!)… so how do we go about finding out what that font is called? Sounds familiar? Yes… we’ve all been there before! One easy option is to simply email the webmaster and ask for the name of the font and where to get it. This can take [...]

Static Screenshot Testing Adobe Browserlab ( Recommended  ) Seemingly the successor of Meer Meer from Adobe, Browserlabs is a sleek new service for testing your websites across browsers. It tests Firefox 2 and 3 and IE 6 and 7 for XP and test Firefox 2 and 3 and Safari 3 for OS X. Just sign in with your Adobe account, put in a URL and let Browserlab load screenshots for these browsers. Brilliant 2-up and [...]

You can’t deny that typography is important in design. You could have the most beautiful illustrations in the world, but if you use a font like Jokerman, your entire design will look iffy. Now if you really want to blow your client away with an awesome design, you have to find a font that works. I mean sure, you could always just play it safe and use a font like Arial or Helvetica, but where’s [...]

When we see an image on a web page, it’s second nature for us to move our mouse over it or try to click it. We have come to expect some level of interactivity when it comes to images, especially with modern web design technologies, such as jQuery. If you happen to be working on a project that requires the images to have a little something extra, then jQuery is the way to go. To [...]

It’s no secret that web developers seldom build things up from scratch nowadays. From web icons to graphical chart, CSS menu to random dummy texts, from web traffics analysis, You must identify current trends and standards and determine ways to incorporate them into your designs. In this article, I have compiled 30 extremely useful tools for web developers, that should definitely be added to your bookmarks. 1. Firebug 2. HTML Entity Character Lookup 3. ColorCombos [...]

A fancy new iPad is the perfect travel companion for any designer. The richness of the large multi-touch screen makes for some incredibly useful and fun apps that can really drive your creativity. Below we’ll look at 30 different apps spanning several categories that can help designers and creatives out with everything from jotting down notes and wireframing to staying on task. Sketching You never know where you’ll be when inspiration will strike, so never [...]