A large set of resources for those who use Illustrator for wireframes. It includes 290 free vectors icons and 200 graphic styles, all free to use. This looks very useful indeed.
Archives for July 2010
30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks to Get The Most From Your Mac
There are some nice tips in here, even for those of us who've read and/or written dozens of similar posts.
Design Is History
"Part of the graduate thesis of designer Dominic Flask, this site was created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. It is supposed to provide brief overviews of a wide range of topics rather than an in-depth study of only a few. It is a constantly evolving, changing, expanding reference library. "
– from the site's about page.
html5shiv
I didn't realize Google hosts the HTML 5 Shiv in addition to the other JavaScript frameworks that it's kind enough to provide the community. Nice!
If you want to use HTML 5, the shiv is pretty well a requirement as Internet Explorer (up to and including IE 8) doesn't support the new elements in the spec. Plus it's easy to implement and will only be downloaded by the browsers that need it.
Web Performant WordPress
Dave Rupert provides an excellent breakdown of how to speed up your WordPress-powered site. There's no excuse to not spend the time implementing these changes. Even if you're like me, and have already done a lot of the work, I'm willing to bet there's a step or two that will make your site even better. For me, it's the super-duper-easy cut-and-paste improvements to the htacess file to enable gzip and browser caching.
13 Stripes and 51 Stars
An interactive exploration of the methods that could be used to add an extra star to the American flag.