Web Design

Free repeating patterns by Doug Hill

Doug Hill released 115 background tiles for free use. There are some really good ones. I prefer minimalist, small tiling patterns, he has a few of those, but most are fairly elaborate.

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Posted June 3rd, 2008 in Web Design by Matt

WebMonkey.com Relaunches

So I must have missed this one, but age old Web design resource WebMonkey.com has relaunched. It is completely revamped and is gorgeous.

One of the coolest things I’ve seen so far is that all of the tutorials are managed by MediaWiki and are completely globally editable! No more out-datedness!

Nice work. Hoping to see some great content here soon.

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Posted May 19th, 2008 in Web Design by Matt

Mid-April Design Linkage

In addition to all the GTD links, there were some excellent Web design links. Here are some of the best (IMO)

Getting Creative with Web transparency - rounds up some good cross-browser PNG transparency techniques

60 More AJAX and JavaScript Solutions for Professional Coding - I’m becoming a jQuery or custom-only guy, but there are some neat tricks here.

eXtreme Type Terminology - Typography lingo 101

FR EE Typefaces from Ten by Twenty - Jura, Nevis, and Munro, three of the hottest free fonts I’ve seen.

63 Must-have Grunge fonts - because you know, you need 63…

Take Control of Your Maps - Don’t default to Google Maps API on your next Web app :)

20 Rare Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber

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Posted April 17th, 2008 in Web Design by Matt

Giving Birth to a Tech Network

Well, it’s not news anymore, but we re-launched Engadget (and all the sub-Engadgets) and packaged a few other of our sites into a juggernaut Tech-blog network. I am physically and emotionally exhausted from it all. I could write a book on the process, I may attempt snippets of it on this blog. Sorry I didn’t post about it right away, but I needed a few days away from the computer to recoup. Besides, there was enough being written about it anyway. Here’s some of the coverage:

Great work Mark and Erik, and thanks, Snook for the killer jQuery implementation

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Posted April 14th, 2008 in Web Design by Matt