Time breakdown of modern web design
A little humor for y’all. Here is a pie chart that quantifies the actual time spent by a web designer.
How to create a favicon.ico file in Photoshop
There is a small graphic file that most people probably don’t know about, but your web browser does. It’s the favicon.ico file and it can help your site to stand out.
Display an image using only HTML
Yes, this is horribly inefficient, but the idea is something worth linking to. Neil Fraser has written code to take an uploaded image and convert it to nothing but HTML. It does this by creating a table of 1 pixel by 1 pixel cells colored to match the image. You can almost hear the CSS [...]
Book Review: Color Harmony by Hideaki Chijiiwa
I’ve had the book Color Harmony sitting on my bookshelf for about a year now, and I go to it every time that I need a color combination for a web page. It was written for printers, but it’s great for web designers. In it you will find hundreds of 2, 3, and 4 color [...]
Splat forum badges
Below is a badge set that I created that would be good on a forum looking for something less than formal. The Admin, Member, and Mod badges are included in red. A PSD file is included so that you can enter your own text and change colors. Instructions for customizing the splats are included in [...]