Propaganda Party: The Pop Stalin Design Manifesto

01-03-08 ‹› Tips, Tricks & Tools

Design Javascript Bookmarklet

I’m a big fan of tools to help me with my work, especially if they’re web-based. I have great love for the Firefox ‘Web Developer’s‘ extension but I just came across a tool today that I’m quite excited about; It’s called Design and it’s a Javascript…

02-27-07 ‹› Tips, Tricks & Tools

John Chow Dot Com: Review My Blog Linkback Program

John Chow wants you to review his blog (note: this page is currently not showing on his site). In return you get a linkback from the “459th most popular blog on the Internet, according to Technorati.” In 200 words here’s what I think of John’s blog:

John seems…

01-19-07 ‹› Tips, Tricks & Tools

Discovering Cool Things a Mac Can Do

Want to know how to cycle through a folder without having to use the aliases in the sidebar of your Finder window? Just “Command+Click” the folder’s name at the top of the window.

Maybe you’d like to open a new Finder window from a sidebar item—just…

01-18-07 ‹› Tips, Tricks & Tools

Add Flare to Your Feeds: Creating a Feedburner FeedFlare

After reading Pronet Advertising’s post “Making Your Content Del.icio.us” I wanted to place an “Add to Del.icio.us” link in my feeds. It took some searching but I finally found out how to add it to my Feedburner feeds. I also noticed that Pronet Advertising had a link…

01-14-07 ‹› Tips, Tricks & Tools

Aligning Items in Photoshop with Smart Guides

I’m quite certain most people know about this handy little trick in Photoshop CS2 but for those of us discovering it late in the game, it can be a god-send. I’m referring to “Smart Guides.”

To enable “Smart Guides” navigate to “View > Show > Smart Guides.” Once…

08-14-06 ‹› Tips, Tricks & Tools

Learning Coding Practices From Other Developers

I’m preparing to work on a new site design that I want to incorporate some accessibility into and in doing so, wanted to take a look at one of my favorite accessibility sites’ stylesheet—456 Berea Street. Roger, in my opinion is an accessibility guru and…

08-04-06 ‹› Tips, Tricks & Tools

Free (or low cost) Royalty-Free Images

Over at Web Design From Scratch Ben Hunt talks about Royalty-Free Image Libraries and makes some suggestions to paid services. I think his suggestions are worthwhile and you will need to end up belonging to one of the subscription services he suggests. However, I thought I’d…

07-19-06 ‹› Tips, Tricks & Tools

Clearing a Form Field

Another little touch to spruce up your designs, clearing a form field that has a predetermined value with onclick.