December 9th, 2010
ImageOptim is a great GUI tool for optimizing images. It uses AdvPNG, OptiPNG, PngGrush, JpegOptim and others. Perfectly simple. Don’t forget to download and install the provided service so that you can optimize images by using the context menu (right click).
Tagged as Image Optimization, Images, PNG, Web Design, Web Development
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December 9th, 2010
Mark Boulton’s book Designing for the Web is now available free to read online. I’ve already got my PDF copy, but this is great that it’s online now. Check it out and don’t forget to also look at all the great Five Simple Steps books.
Tagged as Books, Design for the Web, Grids, Mark Boulton, Web Design, Web Development
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December 9th, 2010
Could this possibly be the coolest server farm ever? The The Wikileaks house their data with Bahnhof AB, which is housed in a former bomb bunker in Sweeden.

Check out the complete slide show of the place on TPM.
Tagged as Bahnhof Bunker, Politics, Wikileaks
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May 17th, 2010
Here is a very nice visualization of support for the different HTML5 and CSS3 properties among various browsers. The visualization allows you to also look at different years from 2008-2010 which gives a great demonstration about how quickly browser vendors are finally moving to implement these standards.
Tagged as Browsers, CSS, HTML5, Infographics, Web Design
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May 11th, 2010
If I only had a dollar for every time I had to go over this in my web design course.

Tagged as Humor, Programming, url, web, XKCD
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