Michael M. Grant's Viral Notebook

Icon sets for Christmas and holidays.

Google celebrates Sesame Streets 40th anniversary with a series of great logos.

Text isn't just limited to language, it can be also used to create unique, unusual pieces of art. This roundup features a selection of creative imagery composed entirely with text.

On the site you can find design patterns, good and bad examples, quick tips, and links to various tools. I think the examples section is very good since the accompanying text explains why each example is good or bad.

The results from WebAIM's October 2009 screen reader user survey have been posted. Some results are expected while others can be a bit surprising.

Benguiat is a decorative serif typeface designed by Ed Benguiat and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1978. The face is loosely based upon typefaces of the Art Nouveau period but is not considered an academic revival. The face fo

We were unsurprised to learn today that someone has just posted the entire new Harry Potterharry potter book on the PDF hosting site Scribd. That's part of

iStoryboards is an app for the iPod Touch and iPhone for creating simple storyboards for film makers.

Your how-to guide for Google with Google tutorials, tips for using Google and advice.

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

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Thomas Merton Balance is important in life. Work and play;

Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page

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

Although many teachers have enthusiastically adopted interactive whiteboards, little research is available on their effect on student achievement. However, in a study that involved 85 teachers and 170 classrooms, the teachers used interactive whiteboards

This report details the findings of the investigation into Personal Learning Environments conducted by CETIS between March 2005 and July 2006 and commissioned by JISC. In our work we considered the phenomenon of the PLE from a number of different aspects.

Learn a simple method of website usability testing that takes just a few seconds to complete and offers a good measure of a website's user-friendliness.