Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator – beautifully reminiscent of Photoshop tool and cross-browse compatible gradient editor from ColorZilla.
Category: Web Design
The Secrets Behind Great Call To Action Buttons
Good advice on improving the call to action button and 40 inspiring examples:
Fillerati – Faux Latin is a Dead Language
This is another nice addition to my collection of Lorem Ipsum replacements. It generates up to 10 paragraphs out of several authors’ books, including Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Not sure how thrilled a client would be to see Caterpillar’s pearls of wisdom plopped in their design, but I would be very tempted to find out 🙂
The Fold Exists but Does it Matter?
Emily Smith explores the nature of the page fold, myths associated with it, and advises on how to organize content to avoid common negative effects that the fold may cause:
RoundedCornr
RoundedCornr generates image files and the necessary HTML and CSS code for a box with rounded corners filled with a gradient or a flat color.
malevole text generator
malevole text generator creates paragraphs of text that are almost as readable as real text. It should look less confusing to unsuspecting clients than the original lorem ipsum text or most of its alternatives.
Bacon Ipsum – A Meatier Lorem Ipsum Generator
The result looks and sounds tasty:
“Pork chop corned beef strip steak fatback, rump cow tail pancetta jerky short ribs. Turkey andouille chicken chuck cow short loin shankle. Corned beef rump meatball, swine ham hock tongue sirloin bacon headcheese. Ball tip ham hock pork loin, pancetta venison pig tongue rump andouille beef ribs meatloaf pork chop. Chicken shank short ribs pork tongue. Beef ribs tri-tip tongue meatloaf swine. Flank jowl bacon hamburger short ribs.”
What? I am a carnivore, just seeing this plopped into my design makes the day brighter.
15 Useful Sketchbooks And Mockups For Web Designers
Something for everybody: a downloadable sketchbook with a web site planning guide, stencil kits, a PDF template, grid paper, digital and printable wireframes, and more: 15 Useful Sketchbooks And Mockups For Web Designers
Design Float
I’ve been subscribed to the Design Float’s RSS feed for a long time, and it keeps getting better and better and, unfortunately, larger and larger. It got to the point where I can’t keep up even by scanning the daily titles. So my latest approach is to only use the first page of design news to satisfy the curiosity and to search for specific links whenever I have a question. To me, search results on Design Float are more useful than on Twitter and better focused than on Digg and similar all-in-one community driven news sites. And it is still using good old pagination and not auto scrolling; I can pause and resume the reading later, can bookmark the exact place in search results where I stopped. Very convenient.
Why Minimalist Design Doesn’t Mean it’s “Cheap”
Great article that explains principles behind minimalist designs and what it takes to come up with a well crafted minimalist web site.