What’s Nice
The action figure motif is hard to not love. The rest of this one pager is clean with the combo of a grungy wood background and transparent sections. I like the FAQ section which helps explain the design:
If this is a ‘wood’ style website, where is the piece of paper with coffee cup stains on it ?
I tried to go minimalist with this re-design and avoid clique ornamentation like notepads and wrinkled paper with coffee stains.
What’s Nice
The portfolio site of Bryan Katzel at first is not too different. What you notice is a long page, when you click on a link or scroll down the magic happens. The bleeding rainbow effect stays consistent ly on the background while going through several masking layers in front. Truly great work with transparency and the slide effect this time with Scriptaculous.
Here are a few AJAX-y effects to add to your website. Though most of these are not really AJAX, they are more of the trend in Web2.0 design or just generally cool features to add to your website.
Coding Horro looks at the multiple monitors study…
Let me be perfectly clear on this matter: more is more. More usable desktop space reduces the amount of time you spend on window management excise. Instead of incessantly dragging, sizing, minimizing and maximizing windows, you can do actual productive work. With a larger desktop, you can spend less time mindlessly arranging information, and more time interacting with and acting on that information. How much that matters to you will depend on your job and working style. Personally, I’d be ecstatic if I never had to size, position, or arrange another damn window for the rest of my life.
Check out the links to 24 great niche gallery sites, from Wordpress only designs to light on dark.
Seth Godin ponders the reason why folks simply send a resume with no cover letter for jobs. As Seth says and I am paraphrasing….Resumes are for chumps, you don’t get great jobs by simply a resume, you get a reason to go into the rejected pile…
Here is an idea, use a random number as a captcha. Store the random number in a session variable and then have the user enter that random number in manually.
Here are some useful tips to use when coding in PHP and making your applications secure. Simple things such as using the strip_tags function to tips on handling files are covered.
What’s Nice
Cycling team websites are usually all over the map in terms of sophistication. They are more or less promotional materials to keep fans close to the team. Slipstream brought the new site up a few notches with a very slick design and lots of nice features. Twitter updates are available along with lots of pictures and links to various videos. If you want to see Tyler Farrar’s TT crash in Paris-Nice or Magnus Backstedt’s crash in the Tour of Qatar you can easily find the info. I’m a big fan of using Wordpress for more than blogging and this is a great example of what can be done to extend Wordpress.
Cool tutorial on making a richly textured grungy business card.