More flexible than a typical PC, the Dell Studio Hybrid is an anywhere-you-want-it-desktop. Our smallest desktop, it looks great in the living room, on the desk, or anywhere else space is at a premium.   Read more

Designing a homepage is an exercise in discriminate puzzle solving. You have a list of possible design elements, widgets, and marketing pieces that can eventually make an appearance. Some are critical, others optional. All of them have a certain value.  Read more

For years, many modern businesses have recognized the value of communicating with their customers about events, news, policy updates, changes in leadership, and other significant happenings within their organization. In fact, some of that communication has been made mandatory by law—any publicly traded company, for instance, is required to provide quarterly financial information. Over the years, marketing and public relations departments have seen the tremendous benefits of maintaining an open line of communication with the public. On a basic level, this transparency builds customer trust, which builds brand loyalty, which can be gasoline for the word-of-mouth marketing fire.  Read more

No business can survive without marketing. Not my business. Not your business. Marketing brings in clients. And clients bring in the money that keeps your business alive. As Webmasters, we sharpen our design skills constantly and try to keep up with new developments in the field -- trends, new tools, etc. However, for many of us, our understanding of marketing theory is less refined.  Read more

The whole point of user testing is to catch the usability problems of your design before you go into production. Therefore, you must be mentally prepared for the feedback that comes out — it may not be pretty. In some cases, you may be faced with a substantial redesign if user after user can’t figure out your interface.  Read more

Asymmetrical balance, or informal balance, is a little more abstract, and generally more visually interesting, than symmetrical balance. Rather than having mirror images on either side of the layout, asymmetrical balance involves objects of differing size, shape, tone, or placement. These objects are arranged so that, despite their differences, they equalize the weight of the page. If you have a large object on one side of a page, and you partner it with several smaller items on the other side, the composition can still feel balanced.  Read more

When inexperienced designers start a Web site design, they typically begin by laying out the major functional blocks of the home page or by doing a color and graphic layout. But designing a site is just the same as building a house. You have to start with the foundation and work up.  Read more

No business can survive without marketing. Not my business. Not your business. Marketing brings in clients. And clients bring in the money that keeps your business alive. As Webmasters, we sharpen our design skills constantly and try to keep up with new developments in the field -- trends, new tools, etc. However, for many of us, our understanding of marketing theory is less refined.  Read more

In terms of a Web site’s “flip factor,’’ auditing, wireframing, and prototyping all lead us to the shaping of our site’s architecture and, ultimately, the site’s usability and content design. We’re creating the interface between a site’s technical backend and its welcoming front-end. If a book, which is a mostly linear medium, can benefit from user pathways, so can aWeb site. What’smore, because different types of people use navigation schemes and site entry points in different ways, creating a variety of pathways to information is a necessity.  Read more

How information is designed both from a conceptual and technical standpoint immediately impacts the short- and long-term evolution of a site. Understanding what information is available, how to structure it in such a way that makes sense both to the end-user and the behind-the-scenes interrelationship of other documents within theWeb site, and managing growth effectively can be extremely helpful in avoiding problems down the road.  Read more

Amazing Street Art  Read more

The Dubai skyline will be constantly changing after plans for the world's first rotating tower were unveiled.  Read more

A collection of motivation posters with a difference  Read more

Wild animals by Nick Brent  Read more

Art Posters - Photography Design  Read more

Futuristic Car Design  Read more

Javascript Canvas - cool libraries, some of the best   Read more

Funny Flash Game - Launch Hedgehog into space  Read more

Creative Photos  Read more

A new video clip from Pixar’s WALL-E was shown during ABC’s airing of Finding Nemo. The scene involves Eve placing our favorite little trash compacting robot in a shuttle back to earth. But things aren’t as they first appear, and WALL-E ends up in explosive situation.  Read more

One of the biggest headaches in managing the code side of Web design is the variations that exist in how markup is formatted. I don’t mean how it will look on display, but how the code itself is formatted behind the scenes.  Read more

Project management is an art and soft science that has had hundreds—if not thousands—of years to emerge. The process—whether it be for huge industrial construction projects, humanitarian endeavors, or even the day-to-day management and workflow of a fast-food restaurant—of managing a given task from fruition through to completion has been undertaken hundreds of millions of times.  Read more

DOM inspection is one of the most useful but underused tools available to a JavaScript developer. DOM inspection can be thought of as an advanced version of viewing a page’s source code, allowing you to see the current state of a page after your code has already modified its contents.  Read more

Prototype is a JavaScript library that was developed to work in conjunction with the popular Ruby on Rails web framework.  Read more

These methods remove elements from the set matched by a jQuery object.  Read more

All of the methods in this chapter manipulate the DOM in some manner. A few of them simply change one of the attributes of an element, while others set an element's style properties. Still others modify entire elements (or groups of elements) themselves—inserting, copying, removing, and so on.  Read more

Firefox 3 - overview, features, tips and tricks  Read more

Funny Signs  Read more

Lists for navigation make sense, because navigation boils down to being a list of links, no matter how it appears visually on the page.  Read more

Several terms and concepts are referred to throughout this chapter, so it’s good to let you know them up front  Read more