Category Archives - Design

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Nielsen Norman Group Report

I thought folks might be interested in the Nielsen Norman Group Report Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities. It describes 75 accessibility-related best practices based on actual usability studies, starting at page 35. (There is a lot of discussion about the study itself and about adaptive equipment in […]

25 Rounded Corners Techniques with CSS

CSS Juice has an interesting collection of rounded corner techniques to share:
Rounded corners is one of the most popular and frequently requested CSS techniques. Even the father of Internet Google also launch the rounded corners style markup with their Google Adsense and let users to custom their ads recently.
Actually, there are a lot […]

More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators

Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design. It includes several options in each of the very long list of categories that follows:

Graphics & Image generators
Color generators
CSS generators
Domain Name generators
Email generators
Favicons generators
Flash generators
Form generators
METATAG generators
Password generators
PopUp generators
robots.txt generators
RSS generators
SiteMap generators
Text generators
ASCII generators
PDF generators
Tooltip generators
XML Forms generators
HTACCESS generators
Fun & Humor

100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images

Laura Milligan compiled a pretty good list of free image sources over on VirtualHosting.com.
These resources are some of the most popular free stock image sites on the Web and with good reason. If you’re looking for some mainstream images, these are the first place to try.

Massive Hex Code Color Chart

Here is a massive color chart with the useful hex codes for about 1,500 different colors.
What I like best about this chart is that it keeps all the similar colors grouped together (unlike just about every other color chart I can find.)
There is also a complimentary Black and White color chart […]

Black and White Hex Code Color Chart

For quick reference sake, here is a table with hex codes for a wide range of grays from White to Black. It should assist when you are needing to pick a color for text or backgrounds.
There is a complimentary color hex code chart here.