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Design tools and resources, best of 2010 Another year ends and a new year begins, there have been 12 months full of news in the web design world, from the New Twitter design to the constant grow of HTML5 and CSS3, there has been tons of events that have changed the web panorama during this year. We spent all the year digging across the web to find those little secrets that were waiting for being discovered. We have reunited a huge collection of news and resources that saw the light during 2010, we did the work for you and now everything that you missed during this year that ends is here, ready for you to look into it. This roundup covers several aspects that will definitely help web designers and developers, including wireframing tools, widgets, color management apps, text editors and more; you will find along with the link a short review about each item of the list, let’s hope that this list will help you to remember all the good things that the last year of this decade has left for all of us. New GUI sets iPad GUI set Minus
FormSite - Online Form Builder. Create HTML forms and surveys. Towards A Cooler Focus Caret The focus caret is that dotted outline you see around HTML elements when they have the focus. In some Mac browsers you see a standardized glowing blue border instead, but most browsers show a dotted outline. It’s not usually pretty, but it is completely necessary to give an indication of which element has the focus. (Some developers hate them so much that they try to suppress them, with JavaScript abominations like onfocus="this.blur()". Here’s an example of what the caret might look like (this screenshot was taken with Mac/Firefox): Focus carets serve a vital accessibility function for people who navigate with the keyboard, and so, far from trying to suppress them, what we as developers should really be doing is making them more obvious. This on its own makes it a useful development tool, because you can draw test borders on elements without affecting the space they take up. A dotted border that inherits the element’s focus color. So as a global rule, we could do something like this:
16 Great Graphic Design Blogs and Sites What are your favorite design blogs and sites? There are so many design blogs now, that your top list is sure to be a bit different. Here we've collected 16 great design sites that consistently bring high-quality material to their audience. They are filled with great resources, original material, thought provoking articles, or well constructed design tutorials that keep you growing as a designer. Add these sites to your feed reader, if they aren't already in there! 1. I'm not sure how many people know about this blog, but I just recently found it and liked what I saw. 2. OK, maybe this is a little shameless self promotion, but at least Outlaw Design Blog has a lot to offer in the way of graphic design. 3. This is another up and coming graphic design blog that is worth keeping an eye on. 4. This is another personal blog from a smaller design firm. What is nice here is that the author usually highlights some form of graphic design in a post and then shares some of his thoughts on it. 5.
The Ultimate Collection Of Free Vector Packs - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Designers love freebies that make life easier and help them create higher-quality work. Free vectors are useful, free vector packs even more so. Many of the vectors featured here would be useful for particular styles of design and specific types of websites. Abstract Blobs and Bursts1 A pack of 10 vectors for creating abstract effects. Wavy Vector Ribbons3 A pack of 7 trendy vectors of wavy lines. Trendy Circles5 Another trendy collection, this one containing six variations. Circles7 Different types and combinations of circles are in this pack. Weird Bubbles9 If other circles don’t meet your needs, ten vectors are included in this pack. Modern Arrows11 An easy way to add a trendy style to your designs. Vector Lines, Swirls and Patterns13 This vector pack includes 20 different lines and swirls. Character Vector Pack15 T-shirt blog Teestrict offers a pack of cartoon characters. Free Vector Pack Two from Designious19 Includes another 20 vectors from Designious’ premium vector packs.
Fudgegraphics C Log Validator Log Validator mini-FAQ What is this? A free, simple and step-by-step tool to improve dramatically the quality of your website. Find the most popular invalid documents, broken links, etc., and prioritize the work to get them fixed. Who should use this? Anyone writing or maintaining websites, especially large ones. Where is the documentation? All the information on how to use this tool is in the Manual. Where do I get it? See the download instructions. I'm a developer, can I help? The tool is open source, developers are welcome to help, and bug reports are welcome, too. Still unclear what exactly the tool does? The "Philosophy" of the LogValidator Step-by-step quality Log Validator is a web server log analysis tool with focus on the quality of Web documents. What this tool does (and does not) This tool takes a web server's last logs and processes it through validation modules. A bit of History How to Participate bug reports Source code for this tool is available under the W3C Software Licence.
Optimus Tactus keyboard Optimus Tactus does not have physical keys, which means there are no restrictions on their shape and size. Any part of the keyboard surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images.