Twitter
has launched an entirely overhauled version of Twitter, today, including a new version of its website, its apps, and TweetDeck (now native on Mac, rather than using Adobe AIR!). You currently need to download the latest version of the Android or iPhone app to see the new version of the website. Dan Frommer offers some good
first impressions.
posted by gilrain
on Dec 9, 2011 -
68 comments
In 1996 a film was released that combined the animated Looney Tunes with the reality based basketball star Michael Jordan. That film was called Space Jam. Incredibly, Warner Brothers
still maintains the movie's website, which is a snapshot of web design from the time period.
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posted by codacorolla
on Dec 29, 2010 -
70 comments
How did the World Wide Web look before this Internet boom,
(1) before it became a riot for star backgrounds, bouncing envelopes and under construction signs?
(2)
Before web design, there was
Prof. Dr. Style.
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posted by Potomac Avenue
on Aug 10, 2010 -
43 comments
January 14th marks the 4th birthday of
jQuery and also the release of
jQuery 1.4. To celebrate the release of the latest version of the popular
JavaScript library the jQuery team has created the
14 Days of jQuery site, which will be updated each day with a new announcement or release. There’s also
prizes to be had for the coolest use of jQuery.
posted by Artw
on Jan 14, 2010 -
44 comments
About 8% of the male population has some sort of color vision deficiency. The
color blind are unable to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites. The patterns and examples on
We Are Color Blind help developers create websites the color deficient can use with minimal problems. Take a
color vision test to see where you stand.
50 facts about color blindness.
posted by netbros
on Sep 28, 2009 -
93 comments
FreelanceSwitch covers many of the topics freelancers need to know about with their daily articles and tips. They run a freelance
job board and have regular
podcasts so you can learn a little something while you work or commute. Check out the FreelanceSwitch
forums for support and advice from other freelancers, or check out their
resources section.
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posted by netbros
on Feb 4, 2009 -
4 comments
Newspaper Website Design: Trends And Examples. News websites can be intriguing to examine from a design perspective. Regardless of what type of news they cover, they all face the challenge of displaying a huge amount of content on the home page, which creates plenty of layout, usability and navigational challenges for the designer. The lessons that can be learned from examining how news websites address these challenges can be valuable for designers who work with other types of websites, including ones with blog theme designs.
posted by netbros
on Nov 11, 2008 -
9 comments
Design Patterns,
Reuse, recycle, but don’t reinvent the wheel unless necessary. This collection captures findings of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows from across the web. One of the many tools, tutorials etc. from Smashing Magazine's list,
Best of September 2007.
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posted by nickyskye
on Oct 10, 2007 -
9 comments
Meet the new New York Times. After
five years, the most popular newspaper on the web has gotten a facelift. Joining a recent web design trend towards
optimizing for wider screens, they've gone for no fewer than six columns on the front page. And while I wouldn't look for a wiki any time soon, they seem to be giving a nod to the web 2.0 crowd with javascipty scrollable image bars and prominent links to recent
video (hello, YouTube) and
current rankings of their most popular, most emailed and most blogged articles (hello, Technorati). The new
Times Topics aggregate articles (and multimedia) from across the site, along with background info (hello, Wikipedia). All the more impressive, considering the head of their design team (who also
redid The Onion!) was
hired just three months ago. Of course, Mickey Kaus will still see this as proof that Sulzburger should be fired.
posted by gsteff
on Apr 3, 2006 -
92 comments
Google Pages is basically Geocities 2.0. You get a wysiwyg editing interface, a bunch of templates to pick from, and the ability to make as many pages as you need. Time will tell if this revolutionizes the web the way Geocities did (aside from all the obvious crappy pages from Geocities, it did give thousands of new writers and designers a place to start), but it's certainly a cool set of tools to do something mundane like start a website. [via
waxy]
posted by mathowie
on Feb 23, 2006 -
88 comments
