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Find out what’s below the surface of a cool design is the tag line of this cheatsheet, which outlines the methods and techniques involved in making a great design from concept to implementation.  The cheatsheet is based off the idea that the central premise of user-centered design is that the best designed products and services [...]

When developing for the web, you gotta keep an eye out for the fonts used in the web pages. For instance while Calibri is a nice font, it runs small and that means it will almost certainly be replaced by a larger size font on older versions of Windows, Mac OS, Linux and generally any [...]

Social Networks are the focus of many businesses this year for various reasons: communicating to customers, pushing a brand, driving in traffic and of course, search engine optimization. However not all social networks deliver well on all these benefits. This PDF entitled The CMO’s Guide To: The Social Landscape clearly outlines what the social media [...]

Cross-browser compatibility, often times a nightmare to web developers. When you have to target various browser versions, such as Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 together, it becomes nearly impossible to use the same machine to host these applications together. You could use a VPS and there are some tricks allowing one to run IE [...]

Designers and developers alike are in constant need of more Lorem Ipsum, and most are familiar with lipsum.com. If you don’t know what Lorem Ipsum is, you must be really new to the scene, but all is not lost, there is a wikipedia article for you.
There’s a more advanced alternative to lipsum.com that you can [...]

They’re actually just 20, but they come in 10 (very appealing) color variations each. There’s one layered PSD files that you can edit to your liking, or you can download a ZIP file with the icons already sliced as PNG files. The resolution for each of the web buttons is 32×32, and they scale well [...]