Ro London of intersmash.com has published quite the icon critique. As a way of studying design, contrast and merely for comparison, Ro collected at least 300 icons from 1800 major websites. These websites consisted of major online retailers, Fortune 1000 companies and well known blogs. The icon groups range from arrows, to posts, to [...]

Ronald Huereca of the R A Project.com website has finished and published his redesign of the Mimbo Pro theme. I’ve heard from a number of designers that the color brown is one of the most difficult colors to design around. Ronald however, seems to have found a great color scheme that goes well with brown. [...]

There are millions of WordPress powered bloggers scattered across the internet. With this amount of sites using the same publishing platform, there are bound to be a number of them which look the same. Whether it be in terms of layout, colors, or overall design. As it stands, the majority of your WordPress powered sites [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, this site has gone through a complete revamp. New look, new logo, new focus. What you are seeing on this blog is thanks in part to a theme system that I came across while spending over a month looking at various themes. The theme system is called Shifter. Shifter has [...]

If you are an application developer chances are, you have to deal with the User Interface. UI Patterns is a website that contains a number of solutions to common user interface design problems. The site goes into detail as to why, when and how a particular solution should be used.
it is the goal to [...]

Jay K of Flying-people.com has released a free 20 icon set which contains an array of beautiful gradients. The badges look great for use of promotional material or to slap onto a site lacking in color. I’ve seen quite a few icon packs but I have yet to see a pack which contains gradients like [...]

After struggling to move my hosted WordPress installation onto my local pc, I have completed the theme edits that I have been wanting to make for some time now. I have moved the Chatter box from the footer of the site and to the top to see if more people will use it. Having it [...]

Today, I have completed the last round of design tweaks for this site. The commenting section is now complete. It now has a bit of style, instead being plain Jane white. I’ve increased the font size of my main content area from 11px to 12px because of readability issues some folks were having. I also [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but I have had an inkling to change some things around here. Some of those things include the commenting system. Not only did it look like an eyesore, but it lacked a few features that I have been wanting to implement for some time now. I have implemented [...]

Netscape has officialy announced the winner of their NetScape Navigator 9 Splash Screen Logo Constest. The winner is Mario Herbert who designed the following graphic.

This winning entry will end up being the default splash screen for Netscape Navigator 9. I can’t believe people still use Navigator as their browser. Someone explain that one to me.
If [...]