Michael M. Grant's Viral Notebook

In a typical web layout, a designer needs to place a logo, text, photographs or illustration. By making a conscious effort to work on the relationship between these elements to produce an eye catching design.

Web based applications have many advantages over software that you have to download and install it on your computer. First, You don't need to install or update , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.

Buttons, whatever their purpose, are important design elements. They could be the end point of a Web form or a call to action. Designers have many reasons to style...

GoAnimate is a way to easily create animations and share with friends.

Here is the final list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009, compiled from the contributions of 278 learning professionals - from education and workplace learning - worldwide. Thanks to all who contributed their Top 10 Tools for learning. Below is the p

20 icons for the holidays available in PNG.

20 icons for the holidays available in Mac, PC and PNG.

Today we share a free icon pack by the designers over at IconShock inspired by Fall and Thanksgiving: 5 Icons in total including a Turkey, Pumpkin, Pilgrims, and the changing color of leaves.

A short, understandable, and highly visual explanation of the history of the Internet.

Lego Digital Designer allows you to build legos with the software and do cool stuff, too. A revolutionary platform for virtual building. The software is free to download for Mac and PC. PowerPC Macs must download a special version.

Branching surveys and self-grading quizzes in Google Forms / Google Docs

did dig up the eLearning Guild Authoring Tools Research Report (January 2008). It's a bit out of date (almost 2 years old) and I suspect the numbers have changed a bit. My guess is that Articulate represents a larger market share than two years ago.

The beauty of being a web designer is creating a detailed, creative, and original web design in Photoshop, without having to (for the most part) think about how

When I first set out to design websites I was a bit lost. I entered the field from the development side and didn't have a formal design degree. While I've

A couple of weeks ago I promised to expand on each of the four design basics. Today that expansion begins with an example of alignment. Amateur Design If you

Last week we talked about alignment as one of the four design basics. We looked at a web page who's elements were randomly strewn across the page and by

Last week our discussion revolved around repetition as a basic design principle. We saw how adding repetitive elements highlights similarity and how repetition

So far in this series we've taken an amateur design and improved it in several ways. We aligned design elements to provide a sense of order, we used repetition

When adding images to your site or blog posts do you take the time to crop them to create a more dynamic and visually interesting image? Here's a simple trick

Less is more- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe A good friend of mine is moving into a new apartment after being away from the area for a few years. Needing