CSS can be both a tricky and easy to learn. The syntax itself is easy, but some concepts can be difficult to understand. This article features 20 excellent websites to help you "grok" CSS. There’s a wide range of websites included – from blogs to directory-style lists and websites that focus [...]

It’s a question many of us in accessibility have been waiting for years to be answered. Does the Americans with Disabilities Act apply to the web? Sadly, accessibility’s ultimate cliffhanger once again reaches an awkward denouement, leaving us deflated, and looking at yet another boring sequel. The National Federation of the Blind v. Target lawsuit, which promised [...]

Testing for web accessibility (how usable a website is by individuals with disabilities) is an often neglected part of web design and development. Web accessibility is important not only because your content will reach a wider range of audience, but also because correcting web accessibility issues have secondary benefits such as [...]

A design destined for print requires setting up to certain specifications to ensure that the work is printed correctly by industrial lithographic or digital print firms. This often starts with the initial document upon which the design is to be created by adding the correct bleed area and crop marks. Let’s take a look at [...]

I found this little site on the history of graphic design. Pretty good read. It’s unfortunate that the design of the site isn’t all that great.

The design phase of creating a website is fairly standard for most web designers however when it comes to presenting the mock up to a client before slicing / coding the design, some problems do arise so I went out and asked the community about how they present a web site design to a client. After [...]

by Mathieu Christe & Berton Hasebe A year ago, after the ten of us settled in The Hague, we started the Type and Media masters course excited to begin our education in type design. Expecting to immediately start drawing letters, we were surprised to find that our first course was in Python programming. Though unexpected, it was an [...]

Ive just caught news from the blog over at GoMedia that the latest vector set; Pack 12 has now been released. Featuring a range of scalable vector objects and textures including 8-Bit style graphics, Zombies, Guts & Slime, Halftones, Asian Imagery, Linework and Tattered Scrolls; a real useful addition to any designers toolbox. See more at [...]

Design is powerful. Most people in this world don’t even know how powerful good design can be. It can be addictive like a drug. It can suck you in and make you do things without you even knowing. Design can make you buy something you don’t need or it can make you visit a place [...]

A list of nine best practices. One of the smartest: “Good blogs are the product of attention times interest.”