Kubilay Sapayer on Dribbble has released a great set of PhotoShop layer styles free for you to use however you want. here a pack of 28 layer styles they are all made of ’1′ layer no credit or permission needed … Continue reading →

Typecast looks very interesting. It takes fonts from the most popular web font services (currently from Typekit, fontdeck, fonts.com and Google Web Fonts) and allows you to design with them in the browser which is great for getting around the problem of not having them installed on your computer. It’s in private beta so I’ve [...]

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Great presentation by Lea Verou about some things in CSS3 you may not have known about. You will learn something here guaranteed.

The HTML5 element is no more (along with the pubdate attribute) and has been replaced by . I don’t think there is anyone who thinks this is a good idea, especially as it has been out in the wild for a good while now. Gone is the ability for machine readable dates and times [...]

Very nice things you can do with CSS on images. The embossed styles are similar to how I created slick CSS3 buttons with box-shadow and rgba.

A very simple tip from TJ Taylor that I was completely unaware of until now even after all these years of using Photoshop. You know when you create a single line of text in Photoshop and you actually want to manipulate the height and width but you can’t? Well, right click the text with the [...]

I think it’s good to see Adobe thinking differently and trying new things despite the fact they’ve failed so miserably with Muse. Adobe’s cluelessness is a great opportunity for the little guys though. The independent app developers who do get it will thrive under the failing of a big company. I hope to see a [...]

It’s summer here in London which means I have less time to sit at a computer and write. Combine that with moving into a new place with my girlfriend, starting a new job and not having home broadband for two months thanks to the useless idiots at Virgin Media (with a dose of stupidity from O2 [...]

I’m not the biggest fan of Firefox. It’s clunky and slow and feeling a little old as a result but these proposed redesigns from the Firefox UX Team are really refreshing. Unfortunately I don’t have anymore information than what’s on the linked page but I really hope they push forward in this direction because it [...]

We recently launched a beta of new site we have been working on, called theexpressiveweb.com. This is a project we have put together with the help of Big Spaceship with the goal of creating both a resource and showcase that highlights some of the most creative and expressive features being added to the web today [...]

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Chosen is a javsacript plug-in that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors Very nice way to enhance the user experience of select boxes, especially the Google+ style multi select groups.

What can you do with only 1K of CSS? I would really love to have a go but unfortunately I just don’t have the time at the moment. The winners of JS1K are very impressive so it should be good to see what can be done with only CSS.