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References, Tutoriels, Astuces

Répertoire de livre et e-livres gratuit
Plus de 120 000 livres disponibles.

Adobe - Design Center - Video workshop
Plus de 200 vidéo en ligne sur Adobe Creative Suite CS3.

Freelancing Resources
Ressources pour ceux qui travaillent en freelance.

PHP regular expressions examples
Example d'utilisation d'expression régulières en PHP

Outils, Web-Services

FormBuilder: HTML forms made simple
Construire simplement des formulaires HTML.

CSS-Techniques, (X)HTML, PHP 

Unobtrusive connected select boxes

Link Boxes
Une boîte avec entête et un chapeau.

A Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition
Un article qui décrit les propriétés CSS supportées dans les clients de messagerie. Le résumé dans le PDF.

CSS Hacks & Issues
8 solutions lors du design CSS: a propos des PNGs transparent dans IE6, outline-property et min-width-property.

StyleMap v2: Visual Sitemap
StyleMap graphique.

CSS Tools 

FireBug Tips and Tricks

Simple CSS
Créer simplement ces feuilles de styles.

Free CSS Graph Resources Generators
10 générateurs de grahiques CSS

Articles, Publications

  • Talent Isn’t Everything
    Here’s a common myth: To be a successful creative professional, all you need is talent. It’s a nice myth to believe in. “Talent” suggests a divine or evolutionary genetic gift, so if you’re blessed with the talent gene, you’re special and can be a cool creative person. If not, you’re destined to be an accountant,,.
  • Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog
    20 selected tips, condensed from Dozens of Bloggers’ Experiences. What distinguishes good blogs from poor ones? The author has compiled a list of useful tips, especially by reading “lessons learned” posts by bloggers. Amongst 20 mentioned principles are Post often, Encourage comments, Make it easy to subscribe, Present your Ideas Visually, Make headlines descriptive, Allow users to contact you offline and Include a Top posts section.

  • Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful
    Breadcrumbs use a single line of text to show a page’s location in the site hierarchy. While secondary, this navigation technique is increasingly beneficial to users.
  • Timing and Synchronization in JavaScript
    This article attempts to describe the various timing-related issues in JavaScript in current browsers.
  • Styling links
    There are several possibilities to style links in order to highlight them among other content. 9 methods in a brief overview, with examples anf further references. We cannot rely on visual context to make it obvious to users that inline links are clickable, and therefore their appearance is crucial.

  • Learn how to slice your templates into fully standards compliant XHTML and CSS!
    A guide for learning how to turn a Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro or Fireworks template into a fully sliced, coded and XHTML and CSS valid web page.
  • No Margin For Error
    How many times have you heard someone say: “Why does my site look different in IE than in Firefox”? This is a common question in the CSS forums and one I encounter almost on a daily basis. Therefore I am going to go right back to basics for this article and explain the fundamental reason why your site may look slightly different in various browsers.
  • Beware of XHTML
    If you’re a web developer, you’ve probably heard about XHTML, the markup language developed in 1999 to implement HTML as an XML format. Most people who use and promote XHTML do so because they think it’s the newest and hottest thing, and they may have heard of some (usually false) benefits here and there. The state of XHTML on the Web today is however more broken than the state of HTML, and most people don’t realize because the major browsers aren’t even treating those pages like real XHTML. If you hope for XHTML to succeed on the Web, you should read this article carefully.
  • The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs
    You’d think that as a result of open-source development practices, blog architectures would be pretty close to perfection in areas like Web standards and maximum SEO impact. Wel, guess what, you’d be wrong.
  • How Much Does a Web Page Cost?
    How to walk a client through the sticker shock of building a Web presence.
  • Video: RSS in Plain English
    We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven’t yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people. If you know someone who would love RSS and hasn’t yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.
  • Why simplicity is essential to web design
    A simple website charges you less time. A complex website charges you more time. Time is your most precious resource und have to be dealt with properly. Article by Gerry McGovern
  • Poll results: 50.4% of respondents maximise windows
    According to Roger Johanssons’s survey, every second user maximizes browser windows to their full width and height.

Design-Galleries, Showcases, Inspiration

  • 60 best CSS directories you would die to watch!
    With new technologies flooding the web, different tools are available with which a web designer can showcase his/her creativity and craft. But despite putting in the effort and sweat, numerous websites with fantastic creativity fail to get noticed. Also, the surge in designing is driving designers to dig for creativity, color schemes and layouts. Keeping these aspects in mind, we came up with a compendium of best CSS directories, CSS showcase, CSS galleries that rank / grade websites (using CSS) on the basis of Alexa ranking, colors, categories, tags, ratings and RSS.
  • Standards Reboot - May 1st
    May 1st - the reboot time. Standards Reboot showcases the re-designed worked of participants of the May’s traditional Standards Reboott.
  • Horizontal Navigation; nine ways to skin a cat
    Once you start perusing the web for inspiration rich entities, you quickly notice the very small world from which everyone seems to be working from – especially when you get as specific as horizontal navigation. At the end of an intense brainstorming session, we thought it would be fun to highlight some of the most commonly used techniques for designing horizontal navigation.
  • Web Professionals portfolio and profile
    Professional On The Web is a directory of web professionals profiles, projects and portfolios.
  • Typography - a photoset on Flickr
    Photos of a 1923 American Type Foundry specimen book.
  • COLOURlovers :: Blog / Trends
    It is extremely hard to summarize an entire decade with five or six colors, but each of the past 5 decades seemed to carry a common tune. The end to the war-time lack of color in the 50’s. The explosion of color in the hippie loving 60s. The muted colors of the 70’s to balance out the brightness of the previous decade. An attempt to capture colors common at home for each decade.
  • The 35 Sexiest Designed Websites You’ve Forgotten, part 4
    Phil Renaud continues his series of posts about the sexiest CSS/Flash-Designs. A semiannual showcase of what’s achievable in either domain. Simply put - if a site aesthetically impresses me, it makes the cut. In the case of part 4 here, the breakdown is as follows: 18 CSS sites, 12 Flash sites, 5 hybrids. 35 more gorgeous Designs in an overview.
  • Idealist
    Idealist is a platform for designers and creators to publish and share their creativity, get feedback from the community and increase the popularity of their ideas. The tool offers a plattform for ideas, concepts, sketches, designs and new products. It displays user submitted and rated ideas.

Icons, Fonts, Wordpress Themes

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