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  • Googlebot & you

    If you wanna be anybody on the web, you have to be friends with google, the most popular kid on the Internet. Fortunately, google itself gives you tips to be the coolest! First, it’s important to have some inkling of how google search works, since we want our sites to show up at the top […]

  • links links links!

    First, the Rebuild Foundation made a cool-looking website and really nailed their design. Every page is different, but because of the grid, fonts and colors they use, it still looks like a consistent website. Typography Typewolf scours the web for great examples of online typography. The main page showcases a bunch of “sites of the day”, and there […]

  • Good design (according to the modernists)

    Dieter Rams is a designer known for his minimalist, modern work at Braun during the 60s. He wrote ten principles for good design, a useful list of recommendations for designers, which you can read at vitsoe.

  • Principles of site design

    The all-knowing, all-powerful interdimensional entity known as google spends a lot of time (and money) studying the web and its users’ habits. That’s why they’ve released a list of dos and don’ts, specifically targeted for mobile site design.

  • User interface v. flat design

    Sometimes we get seduced by the appeal of flat design and, in so doing, make our websites harder to navigate. Co.design investigates why it’s important to make links stand out.

  • Bedtime reading

    Beautiful high-res scans of a 1961 article about the newly-released typeface Univers, designed by Adrian Frutiger.

  • Well crap.

    Last week, I mentioned that there wasn’t really a great way to make a column layout with html and css. Well, a day later, I found this new css3 multi-column property. Shows what I know! Note that it’s not completely supported yet (since it’s so new), but who knows what that will mean in a […]

  • More info about flex

    We’re not talking too  much about flexboxes in class, because they’re not completely supported yet, but if you’re curious and want to try playing with them, you can check out Learn CSS Layout‘s flexbox entry, css-tricks‘ take on the subject, or MDN‘s very in-depth explanation. Looks promising!