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Webby Award Winners for Design, Flashblock Edition
Last week the winners of the 2010 Webby awards were announced. Jennifer Farley, one of the staff bloggers at SitePoint (where I work), recently posted a breakdown of five of the winners in design-related categories, along with her impressions of the sites in question. I think that’s a great idea, so I’m going to write [...]
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Free Wireframe Kit for Google Drawings
I’m a big fan of Mockingbird for creating quick mockups and wireframes. It’s free, it’s online, and it does just about everything you want it to do. That said, a bit of choice never hurt anyone, so it’s interesting to see that Google Drawings, the recent addition to the Google Docs family, can be used [...]
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Jason Fried on Why you Can’t Work at Work
This video, from Jason Fried (@jasonfried) of 37signals, really hit home with me. I’m often guilty of being a little quick on the trigger to interrupt people when I have a question or want their input on something. I’m going to try to put some of this theory into application in my work at SitePoint [...]
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I Love the Internet: Simple Font Stack Tester
I blogged about testing font stacks earlier this week at SitePoint, and pointed out a very early-days project on GitHub that seemed to be a first stab at developing a tool to simplify this kind of testing. Today I received an email from a reader, who apparently registered http://fontstacktester.com and set up a web-based interface [...]
New SitePoint Post: Keep Your Font Stacks from Falling Over
For most web designers and developers, testing is a huge part of the job. They’ll devote a considerable amount of time ensuring that their sites appear similar, if not identical, in a wide range of browsers. One key part of site testing, however, seems to be all too frequently forgotten: font stack testing. read the [...]