Inspiration

Skitch

A screen shot of my Skitch blogI’ve always found it hard to get a grab on where to store and man­age my occa­sional inspi­ra­tional screen shots. Sav­ing them to the hard drive works, but I really miss an overview and a way to add notes and key­words for findability.

But recently I started using Skitch. It’s a great lit­tle app for stuff like tak­ing screen shots, sketch­ing ideas and shar­ing the whole lot. It eas­ily solves the prob­lem of man­ag­ing screen shots. Just open Skitch, drag the screen snap tool across the part of the screen, you want to save, upload and tag it. And there you go, a blog with screen shots, eas­ily man­aged with notes and tags for findability.

Check out my Skitch blog here.

Linkhøst fra 2. juli til 8. juli

Bog­mærker ind­sam­let fra 2. juli til 8. juli

Advanced Word­Press — Cat­e­gory Based Nav­i­ga­tion Instead of Page Based | Intel­li­gent Web­site Wid­get Deploy­ment Strategies
8. juli
Most Word­Press themes use pages for nav­i­ga­tion. This is fine for most sin­gle user blogs, but when you want to really start expand­ing what Word­Press can do, look at using cat­e­gories for your main navigation.
Pat­tern­Cooler | Cool Seam­less Back­ground Pat­tern Designs for Web and Graphic Projects, Blogs, Twit­ter, MySpace, Mobile Phone Wallpapers,
4. juli
Add your own col­ors to con­tem­po­rary and retro pat­tern designs, or browse from thou­sands of pre-colored pat­terns in the seam­less pat­tern back­ground library.
Cre­ate a Clean and Col­or­ful Web Lay­out in Pho­to­shop — Tutorial9
2. juli
In this tuto­r­ial I am going to show you how to cre­ate a clean cor­po­rate lay­out in Photoshop

Dagens linkhøst, 1. juli

Bog­mærker ind­sam­let den 1. juli fra 09:36 til 10:54

Magic Ink: Infor­ma­tion Soft­ware and the Graph­i­cal Interface
1. juli
Pro­posal for redesign of Amazon’s search results. Shows how to present rel­e­vant data to the user in the search situation.
Col­oRo­tate: Home
1. juli
With Col­oRo­tate, you can work with col­ors in 3D, in real time, and in a way that matches how our minds process color.
18 Absolutely Styl­ish Designs Using Pho­to­shop Brushes and How to’s | Noupe
1. juli
To really show off just how well Pho­to­shop brushes could be used in web design, I have selected 18 amaz­ingly designed web­sites that fea­ture a good use of Pho­to­shop brushes or ele­ments that also come in the form of Pho­to­shop brushes. In addi­tion to show­cases such designs, I have also linked to Pho­to­shop brushes sim­i­lar to the ones used in the designs or that are sim­i­lar to the ele­ments in the design.

Linkhøst fra 22. april til 4. maj

Bog­mærker ind­sam­let fra 22. april til 4. maj

Cre­at­ing Posts That Appear Only In RSS | Court’s Inter­net Mar­ket­ing School — How To Make Money Online
4. maj
To cre­ate a post that appears in your RSS feed, but doesn’t appear on the home­page or cat­e­gory pages of your site, you can use the Advanced Cat­e­gory Plu­gin for Word­Press. This plu­gin gives you an inter­face where you can hide a post from cer­tain areas of your site.
Word­Press SEO — Yoast — Tweak­ing Websites
4. maj
The Defin­i­tive Guide To Higher Rank­ings For Your Blog
Embed­ding Word­Press into OS Com­merce Part II » Go Web Young Man
4. maj
A default install of OSC MS2.2 with an inte­grated Word­Press blog. What fol­lows is a step-by-step tuto­r­ial (with the novice in mind) show­ing you how to do this.
Alter­na­tives to Win­dows, Mac, Linux and online appli­ca­tions | AlternativeTo.net
23. april
Find bet­ter Win­dows, Mac, Linux and online appli­ca­tions. Alter­na­tiveTo is a new approach to find­ing good soft­ware. Tell us what appli­ca­tion you want to replace and we give you sug­ges­tions on great alter­na­tives! Instead of list­ing thou­sands of more or less crappy appli­ca­tions in a cat­e­gory, we make each appli­ca­tion into a cat­e­gory. Think of it like for­ever evolv­ing blog posts about good alter­na­tives to the soft­ware that you’re not sat­is­fied with. And the “blog posts” are gen­er­ated by you through sug­ges­tions, com­ments and votes.
STUDIO7DESIGNS Green web­site and logo brand design com­pany | Web designs Vic­to­ria Van­cou­ver BC Canada
22. april
We have been design­ing award win­ning web­sites for the last 5 years. We will work closely with you to cre­ate a web­site that is pro­fes­sional, easy to use, and inte­grated with your logo iden­tity and cor­po­rate color pro­file. All our web­sites are coded with valid CSS and XHTML for fast load­ing, ease of use, and are sim­ple to upscale in the future.

Bogmærker indsamlet fra 21. februar til 4. marts

Links ind­sam­let fra 21. feb­ruar til 4. marts

[en] .htac­cess Editor
4. marts
Online tool for cre­at­ing .htac­cess files.
WPIn­spi­ra­tion | Show­cas­ing the Best Word­Press Sites on the Internet
4. marts
WPIn­spi­ra­tion is a col­lec­tion of the best-looking Word­Press sites on the inter­net. Derived from the old “Sites” sec­tion of WPCandy, WPI con­tains hun­dreds of the pret­ti­est, sex­i­est, and just plain awe­some WordPress-powered sites.
15 Tuto­ri­als for Recre­at­ing Authen­tic Photo Effects | Blog.SpoonGraphics
4. marts
Here are 15 tuto­ri­als for recre­at­ing authen­tic photo effects such as Lomo pho­tog­ra­phy, HDR and Cross Pro­cess­ing dig­i­tally in Adobe Photoshop.
CTRL+ALT+DEL: Opryd­ning i registreringsdatabasen
3. marts
Herun­der har jeg lis­tet et antal glim­rende gratis pro­gram­mer, der er prøvet og fun­det i orden — dvs. de ødelæg­ger ikke noget og de ryd­der godt op i registreringsdatabasen.
50 Min­i­mal Sites
Now it is time to fea­ture the min­i­mal­ist design. Here is a mas­sive list of 50 min­i­mal sites. See how design­ers use min­i­mal ele­ments to cre­ate high visual impact — less is more.
Think Design Blog — Word­Press — Lorem Ipsum Test Post Pack | Think Design
Test post pack for Word­Press. The next time you’re design­ing, cre­at­ing, or cus­tomiz­ing a theme, you can upload this dummy post pack and save your­self a bunch of time!
SendCSS.com
Send­CSS shows some of the world’s great­est web­sites (CSS & Word­Press) from all over the globe.
100+ Free Seam­less Vec­tor Pat­terns Ideal for Web Design and Print Work | Patternhead
Seam­less pat­terns are great for adding depth and tex­ture to your design work. Use big bold pat­terns to cap­ture atten­tion or sub­tle calm­ing pat­terns as back­drops. Here are 106 high-quality free seam­less vec­tor patterns.
30 Beau­ti­fully Tex­tured Web Designs
Tex­tures in a web design have become a pop­u­lar trend, replac­ing the sleek, glossy, and shiny effects that we com­monly refer to as the “Web 2.0″ design trend. Work­ing with tex­tures is dif­fi­cult, but tal­ented design­ers world­wide choose this route to add a depth in their designs and to exem­plify their cre­ative skills.

In this col­lec­tion, you’ll find 30 gor­geous web designs that employ tex­tures as a design component.

Icon­Dock — The Art of Stock Icons
Icon­Dock is a newly launched icon shop by N.Design Studio.

Inspiration til design af søgeboksen

Når brugeren ikke kan finde rundt på web­sitet, er søge­bok­sen ofte sid­ste udvej? Men hvor­dan designer man en effek­tiv søge­for­mu­lar? Smash­ing Mag­a­zine har en god artikel om emnet med eksem­pler på dos & don’ts, bud på desig­noverve­jelser og masser af inspir­erende screen dumps.

Design­ing The Holy Search Box: Exam­ples And Best Prac­tices.

Hvordan designer man en effektiv 404 side?

Fejl 404 sider er ikke altid lige hjælp­somme. Tal­let 404 siger for­mentlig de fær­reste brugere noget som helst. Hvor­dan designer man en 404 side, som kan hjælpe brugeren videre?

Hongkiat.com har sam­let en liste over 404 sider. De er ikke alle lige gode, men her er nogle kreative bud på fejlbeskeder og under alle omstændigheder god inspiration.

Se Hongkiat’s “60 Really Cool and Cre­ative Error 404 Pages”.

Jason Santa Maria

Jason Santa Maria er grafisk designer og Cre­ative Direc­tor i webdesign-bureauet Happy Cog Stu­dios. RSS feed’et fra Jason’s blog har en særlig plads i min feed reader. Det er nem­lig abso­lut nød­vendigt at besøge bloggen, hver gang der kom­mer nye indlæg, for det er ikke kun selve ind­holdet, der er interessant.

Jason gen­nemde­signer mange af sine indlæg helt fra bun­den, lige fra lay­out over illus­tra­tioner til typografi. Og det passer altid sam­men med bloggens overordnede udtryk. Sitet er altid et beøg værd. Se Jason Santa Maria’s blog her.

Herun­der dumps fra et par af Jason’s indlæg:

Haunted - af Jason Santa Maria

Haunted — af Jason Santa Maria

Cheesesteak Crawl - af Jason Santa Maria

Cheeses­teak Crawl — af Jason Santa Maria