Archive for the ‘interesting links’ Category

02 Aug, 2007

The FontFeed » Erik Spiekermann’s Typo TipsTypography tips from a master, including some handy Mac keyboard combinations for certain typographic elements like dashes.(Tags: design, tips, typography)
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : What Apple copied from MicrosoftI agree with Zeldman here – it’s all about the synchronization and ease of use.(Tags: apple, iphone, design, microsoft, mac, software, osx, sync)
Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web SiteGreat advice for quick page load times. A few I don’t see as practical unless you are a sysadmin or have complete control over your server (Etags, CDN, etc).(Tags: performance, webdev, cache, gzip, reference, http)
ScreenStepsEasy screenshots and help documentation for Mac users. (via sdevore).(Tags: tools, tutorials, screenshot, screencapture, software, mac, documentation, osx, help)

Our Favorite Fonts of 2006 | TypographicaI’m digging FF Milo, Paperback, and Palatino Sans.(Tags: fonts, typography, design, inspiration, typeface)
Pagination 101 – KuraFire NetworkNice reference for usability of paging controls. Thanks Faruk!(Tags: pagination, usability, design, web-design, navigation, ui, interface, layout, patterns, reference, css)
iPhoRSS – Read, aggregate, share. On your iPhoneCakePHP application to read RSS on your iPhone (if you have one!)(Tags: cakephp, feeds, rss, xml, iphone)
The business case for web standards | Main / Home PageMaking a business case for web standards wiki-style. ‘Nuff said.(Tags: web-standards, business, standards, web-design, wiki)
Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook: Frutiger TalkFun, informational, and strangely inspiring talk from a man who never met Monsieur Frutiger. (Yes, Laura, I know how to pronounce it now! Say it with me: “frue-tee-jay.”)(Tags: typography, presentation, fonts, design, inspiration, pdf, frutiger, univers)
HTML elements index – Jens MeiertNice breakdown of HTML elements in your various flavors of markup languages.(Tags: reference, html, xhtml, markup, web-design, web-standards)

wmd – The Wysiwym Markdown EditorNice editor for producing clean markup in your web applications (uses Markdown). Free for non-commercial projects.(Tags: editor, markdown, javascript, html, wysiwym, web, cms, WYSIWYG, markup, web-standards)
mezzoblue § Shifting BackDave Shea on color profiles: to use or not to use for web graphics? I think I agree with his findings that turning off color management is the way to go (at least for web graphics).(Tags: color, design, graphics, illustrator, photoshop, png, gif, gamma, sRGB, rgb)