Photographic Palettes
How many times have you seen a colour combination that just worked, a match so perfect that it just seems obvious?
(tags: webdesign colour)

Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique
The growing number of popular screen sizes and resolutions will challenge web designers to deliver their content in an appealing way for a wide range of devices. [...]

New Photoshop and Illustrator icons
Probably (hopefully) not the final icons from design software heavyweight.
(tags: webdesign icons)

The new Adobe icons and branding
Veerle explains why the new icons do in fact work OK. She even asks the designer a few questions. I still don’t like them though. But it’s a matter of preference I guess. Macromedia’s icons [...]

Noise
Download some background (white)noise for your Mac.
(tags: apple mac software)

Type that keeps the beat
“In other words a baseline grid.”
(tags: typography grid)

DragThing for Mac OS X
This is what i’ve been looking for – a better doc for my Mac.
(tags: apple mac software)

Tanya Merone – Online Portfolio
An entire website including portfolio in a single webpage. Via Digital Web.
(tags: webdesign inspiration)

Who Questions Bill Gates’ Commitment to Web Standards?
Molly talks to Bill about web standards.
(tags: webdesign webstandards)

The Challenge of Dashboards and Portals
This is the first in a series of articles about executive dashboards and portals. Part two will address, in detail, the use of Tiles as bulding blocks for an effective enterprise portal.
(tags: webdesign)

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Sandbox · plaintxt.org
More experienced themers will drool at the rich semantic markup and profusion of classes, dynamically generated by a few functions.
(tags: webdesign wordpress themes)

Halfway There, More than Halfway to Go
Insight into a blog redesign process.
(tags: webdesign wordpress)

Mephisto
The best blogging system ever?
(tags: webdesign blogging)

Gridding the 960
Grids, complicated but fun. Useful PNG for background image usage.
(tags: [...]

WYMeditor – standards-compliant XHTML editor
WYMeditor’s main concept is to leave details of the document’s visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible (at least as WYSIWYG editors).
(tags: webdesign)

Photoshop Color Block.
“it’s no Color Schemer, but it’s something handy to keep on the side.”
(tags: [...]

Adactio: Journal – The language of accessibility
From now on, instead of talking about making a site accessible, I’m going to talk about keeping a site accessible.
(tags: webdesign accessibility)

A little 37signals redesign
A swift redesign, rationale and user comments.
(tags: webdesign)

Designing Web Applications for Use
…understanding your users as people is far less important than understanding them as participants [...]

Snap – linked site preview
This is a handy little enhancement for a website. It basically shows the user a snap of a website before they go there!
(tags: webdesign)

113 free web site icons
Fantastic set of useful icons for use on websites.
(tags: webdesign icons)

Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve
Why it’s difficult to get ‘into the flow’.
(tags: [...]

MoneySavingExpert.com
Via Radio 1. A few tips to save some cash.
(tags: business)