Webdesign, CSS, Social Media, Tech & Geek Stuff

• Web 2.0 Badge Creator
  Collection of web 2.0 badges text and video tutorials, plus a neat Web 2.0 graphic generator
  
• Huge list of sites offering Photoshop Rescources and Tutorials
• Univers revolved: a 3-D font
  “The revolved letters create a new alphabet that recaptures the element of experimentation the Latin alphabet held in its early days. Encountering it for the first time, we re-experience the excitement of learning to form words from letters as children.”
• Retro Arcade Museum In Upstate New York
  If you can’t get to NYC here’s the blog version: the Retro Thing
• fractalsponge.net: 3-D space ship art
  This site is seriously cool as it shows highly detailed 3-D views of Star Destroyers, T.I.E. Fighters and a All-Terrain Shock Enforcer (AT-SE) i.e. They alsoprovide download links to the 3ds, maya, max6, lw.8x project files.
• Building your own tiny URL with wordpress
• CSS Cheat Sheet
  The basics. One one view.
• Star Wars Fine Art prints
• Igarashi Design: Futuristic studies
  Radical and freaky studies of a helicopter, motorcycle and high speed snow mobile
• Cardboard Endoskeleton T-800
  Blogger made a T-800 papercraft from the Teminator films in the scale 1:2, which looks really awesome. Behold of the Judgement Day!
  

Collection of sites for help and inspiration:

• Create a Mac style CSS Dock Menu
  

  Really nice tutorial for creating a cool and fancy navigation using CSS and a Jquery Javascript library. Comes as complete Download, including a icon set.

• How to: CSS large Background
  

  Here you’ll find instructions how to integrate a large image as webpage background properly.

• Blurry Background Effect
  

  A very nice and eye teasing visual effect, unfortunately not working for Internet Explorer 6.

• 12 Useful Web Tools for Designers
  

  Several neat tools making a webdesigners daily work less miserable, a color schemer, tools for creating templates, favicons, background patterns or fonts.

• Creating scalable Layouts
  

  As the design of a site is confronted with a huge range of completly different screen resolutions, it should be pretty flexible. Should. Here’s ecplain how to achieve that.

• Massive collection of CSS hints
  

  Ok, this might be quite an old post, but it’s still very useful and just through it’s coverage and useful tricks, all the techniques are great helpers.

CSS (cascading style sheets) is the ultimate tool to create lean, fast, functional, SEO friendly and, though, sexy layouts. Storing style attributes in one file provides several advantages as faster loading times, the source code takes a radical diet, if all the attributes do not appear on the pages itself.

You are web designer and have to work full contact with the customer? Then you will know this situation, the customer wants that headline bold and purple – no, make it green or is blue a better choice? This goes back and forth, which would make you go crazy if you had to do the changes on thousands of subpages. Using CSS you do changes faster than the customer decides between green and yellow.

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Even advanced wordpress users might find a new feature, so check it out:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/40-most-wanted-wordpress-tricks-and-hacks