Open Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!
The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing free web design templates helping to make the global internet a prettier place.
Our goal is to create a community owned and managed site, where users can share their fr
This site contains a lot of best practices in Interaction Design. There is no 'original' design to be found here, it has all been done before. It is a reference or basic 'toolkit' you can use when designing user experiences.
The site is about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. It features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between.
CSS Eleven is an international group of visual web designers and developers who are committed to helping the W3C's CSS Working Group to better deliver the tools that are needed to design tomorrow's web.
The Email Standards Project is here to help designers understand why web standards are so important for email, while working with email client developers to ensure that emails render consistently.
Some design style guides are simple and straightforward, including only basic typography and color styles; others are informative and somewhat complicated, and go into great detail in defining all aspects of brand guidelines. Like the interface itself, a great design style guide should be straightforward, intuitive, and informative. It should provide detailed information, yet be clear and concise.
The design style guide provides a reference in which developers can describe the way the interface is intended to look, and helps designers to be consistent as the interface is updated so that, in turn, the interface continues to feel consistent.
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey's 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as
Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.
Vitamin is a weekly online magazine for web developers. It gives you inspiration with in-depth features, audio interviews, training sessions and reviews.
What is this? It's a challenge, an experiment, an exploration, a rough map of where we haven't been. It's a search for new ways to approach Web-based design. It's a cry for creativity, and a stab at innovation. It's a playground and a proving ground. It's
SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. It is also very search
IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5. Verify your web design natively on all popular Internet Explorer versions, without several physical or virtual Microsoft Windows PCs just for testing purpose.
The following is a collection of stripped down master pages for your use with SharePoint 2007 sites. The master pages that ship with SharePoint are full of formatting code for the respective design for the master page.
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.
Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmar
Designing an HTML email that renders consistently across the major email clients can be very time consuming. Support for even simple CSS varies considerably between clients, and even different versions of the same client.
We've put together this CSS support in email clients guide to save you the time and trouble of figuring it out for yourself. With 21 different sets of results, all the major email systems are covered, both desktop applications and webmail.
This tool lists a number of javascript scripts designed to embed various objects in HTML pages, such as images, flash animations, movies and iframes.
Comparison of various scripts that display images
and other objects in somehow cool CSS popups
In this article, we will use jQuery to apply techniques for increasing the readability, usability, and visual appeal of tables, though we are not dealing with tables used for layout and design.