Two Tuts for Today

Filed Under (CSS, Design, Photoshop, Tutorials) by darkangeldaria on 28-04-2008

Well actually two links to more than one tut for the day. One from PSDTUTS, the other from Six Revisions.

Web Design From Scratch (Photoshop/HTML/CSS)

30 Exceptional CSS Techniques

That’s it for me, two final projects + work = no free time for two weeks!

Reads to Feeds the Mind

Filed Under (Books, General) by darkangeldaria on 24-04-2008

As promised here’s a little gathering of the books I’m considering purchasing for this summer. Which gives you an idea of how little a social life I’m likely to have…and may not even miss. I am that lame.

Design Related

  • Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)
    by Dan Cederholm
  • The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques
    by Corrie Haffly
  • HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS
    by Rachel Andrew
  • The Art and Science of CSS
    by Jonathan Snook
  • The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
    by Rachel Andrew
  • The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
    by Jason Beaird
  • CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
    by Andy Budd
  • Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
    by Dan Cederholm
  • Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics
    by Jennifer Niederst Robbins (Author), Aaron Gustafson (Technical Editor)

Not Design Related

  • Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion
    by Daniel Jones
  • My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
    by Kevin Smith
  • The Vagina Monologues
    by Eve Ensler
  • Slut!
    by Leora Tanenbaum
  • The Female Brain
    by Louann Brizendine M.D., Susan Wels
  • Female Chauvinist Pigs
    by Ariel Levy

Clearly, I have no life. lol :)

Too Little, Too Late?

Filed Under (LCC) by darkangeldaria on 22-04-2008

I’m seriously considering a lobotomy. I think the braindead feeling would be a welcome change from the information overload I seem to be experiencing lately.

In actual design world news not a lot has been going on. My blogs all seems to be feeling less awe-inspiring lately. No articles being e-mailed to myself for later enjoyment. My time has been all too taken up with final projects and trying to remain some sort of sane.

My final project for my Web Dev class is not design wise up to my usual standards, but it fits the mold and will likely change several more times before I’m actually happy with it. Here’s a quick shot of it as it stands today, in all it’s boring unfinished glory.

citw165final

That’s sadly all there is for me at moment. I’ve got a pretty hefty list of books I plan to purchase for this summer’s learning. I won’t be taking any classes so I plan on filling my few months off with that. If I feel up to it I’ll post a list of the books I intend to get, $ providing.

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

Filed Under (Credit, General) by darkangeldaria on 03-04-2008

Just a quick note in thanks for the beautiful (and free) theme created by Design Disease thanks to Smashingmagazine.com. More specifically through a Google search.

One of these days I must/will/need to/should create my own, but for now this is pretty and well done. Thank you anonymous interweb friend for your beautiful work.

Another Resource Link I’ll Never Have Time To Look At

Filed Under (CSS, Color Theory, Design) by darkangeldaria on 02-04-2008

Thanks to the morning Digg crawl I give you:

42 Must Bookmark Resources for Web Designers

I must admit some of these are already in my bookmarks just by glancing at the page but the rest are on my ‘when you have time, check these out’ list.