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Accessibility
- Designing for Dyslexics: Part 1 of 3
- Understanding Disabilities when Designing a Website
- The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I’d Never Write
Blogging and CMS Platforms
- Textpattern Developer’s Toolbox
- WordPress as a CMS: Making Your Content Unbreakable
- Learn ExpressionEngine In 2 Days
- Train-ee – Learn ExpressionEngine Fast
- WordPress as a CMS: Making Your Content Unbreakable
- Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes
- WordPress Theme Hacks
- Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress Content
- Optimal Includes for Movable Type
- How to install WordPress on your PC
Colour
CSS
- Progressive Enhancement with CSS
- Five CSS design browser differences I can live with
- Guide to CSS Support in Email Clients (2008)
- How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time
- 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time- Part 1
- Styling an input type=”file”
- Advanced CSS Printing — Using CSS Page Breaks
- How to Style an A to Z Index with CSS
- Conflicting Absolute Positions
- CSS Crib sheet #2 – Clearing Floats
- CSS Formatter and Optimiser
CSS3
HTML
- The Definitive Guide to Web Character Encoding
- 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
- 5 HTML elements you probably never use (but perhaps should)
Web Content
- American English vs. British English for Web Content
- How to manage out of date content
- Style Guide – guardian.co.uk
- The 20 Best Free Anti-Plagiarism Tools
Illustrator
- Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator
- Illustrator Make with Mesh
- Command shape in Illustrator
- Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days
Inspiration
- 40 Beautiful and Creative Website Footers
- 50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008
- 21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands
- Pattern Tap – Collections
- User Interface Design Patterns
- 36 Cool Custom Error 404 Pages
- 50 Beautifully Dark Web Designs
- 80 Large Background Websites
- 37 Business Cards – Best of June 2008
Javascript
- “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” Video Series
- Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser Headaches
- A brand new PNG fix for IE6
- jQuery Tutorials for Designers
- jQuery for Designers
- Facebox (lightbox)
Microformats
Mobile
Photoshop
- 300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes
- 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets for Modern Design Trends
- 1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets
- 50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes
- Photoshop Browser Templates
Reading
- The Designer’s Review of Books
- Usability and Interface Design Books
- 25 Must Buy, Borrow, or Steal Books for Web Designers
- 20 Useful Web Design Books Worthy of Your Collection
Stock
Tools
- Lorem2
- The CSS Gallery List
- Free Site Validator
- 14 free tools that reveal why people abandon your website
- 15 mac apps web designers should have in their dock
- Project Pier
- 35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed
- WhatIsMyFlash
- 25 Font Management Tools Reviewed
- Down for everyone or just me?
- Online Generators
- Who is hosting this?
- dnScoop
- Dust-Me Selectors
- Icebrrg
Typography
- 25+ Sites that Use Typography As The Only Design Element
- Vintage and Retro Typography Showcase
- The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design
- Top 10 Typefaces of 2007
