Stuff 4 Designers

Ever wanted to line up a row of images across the center? This article explains how to use vertical-align with images only to give you simple and easy vertical and horizontal alignment.

2011 has been a whirlwind of exciting new techniques, tools and technology so far. Here are just a few items which have caught our eye over the last few weeks.

The exciting realm of typography has opened up to web designers in a big way recently with the advent of @font-face support in our browsers. However, there is a slight restraint on the selection of typefaces available for use with @font-face and that’s the tricky subject of licencing. Fortunately, there are quite a few licenced [...]

A collection of icon resources for e-commerce design. Plenty of cart, basket and credit card icons and more in these icon sets.

Font-size-adjust is a handy little CSS3 property that adds another asset to our web typography toolbox. At present it is only supported by Firefox but the spec on this one seems fairly clean-cut and simple so here’s hoping the other browser makers step up to the plate on this one sooner rather than later. You [...]

Typography on the web has been a trend which has been building slowly and steadily but it is set to take centre stage in 2011 as the technology and resources are finally here to support it. With the battle of @font-face finally settled and the advent of web typography finally upon us, web designers now [...]

Dashkards.com If you prefer to keep your hands on your keyboard at all times and rely on keyboard shortcuts to keep your productivity in top form, you’ll be interested in Dashkards. This collection of mini-cheatsheets can be added to the dashboard on your Mac for you to call up on demand. They have a good [...]

Undoubtedly we’ll be seeing more of these coming along based on the new W3C logos/icons which were released last month. But to get the ball rolling, here are the early-bird offerings: The official logos, of course: http://www.w3.org/html/logo/ Interesting 3D interpretation of the html5 icons – a vector icon set from IconShock: http://www.iconshock.com/html5-icons/ HTML5 Geek Character [...]

If you were missing from the web scene this week, here’s a round-up of links you won’t want to have missed! Changes to the Apple.com Design As we reported last week, Apple did a subtle refresh of their site with fancy animating navigation, some webkit effects and new search auto-suggest feature. Of course, for web [...]

Little Big Details A good part of design is about small details, especially when we’re talking about user interface elements. They can make or break a design, or be the difference between a good design and a great design. Little Big Details devoted to showcasing the small UI details that designers take great care over. [...]