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Information architecture (IA) is an often-overlooked area of website design. Too often, as designers, we just let the CMS we're using dictate how content for a site is organized. And that works fine as long as the site fits perfectly into the narrow content formats most CMSs are designed around.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

Great example of a brand book

This is a really nice initiative that was launched this year in Brazil, so people could donate their 404 error pages to support the Association for Assistance to Disabled Children. Really clever campaign that I thought was worth sharing!

Effective web design doesn't have to be pretty and colorful - it has to be clear and intuitive; in fact, we have analyzed the principles of effective design in our previous posts. However, how can you achieve a clear and intuitive design solution?

Find themes in the tumblr theme garden or publish your own. Learn how easy it is to make themes for Tumblr. Share your theme with 25,394,118 Tumblr users. Leave attribution in your theme, and watch your traffic and popularity boom!

A lot of great designers start simple…with a pencil and paper. No Macbook Pro, no Photoshop, just a #2 and Mead. Interface designers brianstorm their idea on paper only to apply it to Photoshop or a similar graphic application. I've compiled some great web design sketches for you to be inspired by.

A nice Tumblr design

Find free open source web fonts optimised for the web.

This link goes through the ways you can design your website in photoshop and comes with the appropriate files to follow along the tut with.

The State of the Web, Summer 2011 Jump to a section: Apple | Facebook | Google | Tumblr | Netflix | Spotify | Pandora | Microsoft | Social Traffic P.S. The above artwork is from this comic Note: The downloadable .zip file contains individual PNGs which can be opened by any image editor, as well as the original Adobe Fireworks PNG file, which is named tumbeasts_fireworks.png.

Published September 2, 2010 in Shevaa in Tutorials Creating Buttons and Badges in Adobe Photoshop is easy. There are different kinds of tutorials related in making buttons and badges on the web that can help enhance your photoshop skills. We collected some of the best sources so you can bookmark them in a single place.

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"Online community and social website where people communicate through visual symbols, logos, icons, or avatars. These images can tell a story, be a personal logo, or a new language. Users can purchase customizable t-shirts, stickers, writstbands, bracelets, hats, and mugs. Mikons supports charities, benevolence groups, and causes." --Another interesting way to promote your brand identity.

A good open source tool for creating customisable web pages, and applications.

AgileZen organizes your work visually, letting you see the big picture, but stay focused on the tasks at hand. AgileZen helps you become more organized and efficient, whether you're on a team or flying solo. AgileZen keeps everyone in your team on the same page, through visual indicators and a powerful messaging system.