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Microsoft Surface, Getting Started with Web Design, and Forcing Your Older TV...
This week on the podcast we're taking a look at Microsoft Surface and the new features in Windows Phone 8, plus an surprising technology from Ford. We're also answering questions about getting started...
View ArticleFrank DeLoupe Puts a System-Wide and Photoshop-Friendly Color Picker on Your Mac
OS X: Frank DeLoupe (or Frank, for short) is a handy little app that lives in your Mac's menubar and can grab any color from any pixel on your screen upon request. Just call it up via its global,...
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The Interactive Guide to Blog Typography Teaches You How to Improve Your...
If you have a blog or other website, your choice of fonts and how you style the text can make a big difference not only in how attractive your site looks, but also its readability. This interactive...
View ArticleAll Realmac Software On Sale This Week, Including Clear, RapidWeaver, and More
Realmac Software, brains behind apps like Clear, LittleSnapper, and RapidWeaver, is having a big holiday sale right now. You can grab all their Mac apps for up to 65% off and Clear, the awesome to-do...
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Hack Design Delivers Design Lessons to Your Inbox Each Week
Hack Design is a design course taught by some of the world's most prominent designers. This free resource teaches you the techniques and tools of good design through playing with design puzzles and...
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Summer of Design Teaches You Core Design Principles via Email
Summer of Design is a free 12-week design course, delivered to your inbox. Taught by friend of Lifehacker and author of Design for Hackers, David Kadavy, the course takes a "reverse engineering"...
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50 of the Best Online Courses and Resources for Learning Web Design
Interested in learning how to build web sites or improve your web design skills? There's a wealth of resources for you (including our own night school on the topic ). Here, in one place is an...
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Stick to These Font Sizes to Simplify Designs (and More Design Tips)
Whether you're new to graphic or web design or have passed the beginner stage, these tips from David Kadavy can help you simplify your slides, web page, or whatever it is you're making.Read more...
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Learn the Most Important HTML Tags with This Simple Cheat Sheet
If you want to format a blog post or edit a web page, it's helpful to know HTML (even if your site platform offers WYSIWYG formatting). This HTML Cheat Sheet shows you all the essential tags you...
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The Elements of HTML Makes Sure You're Not Using Deprecated Tags
Learning HTML is important for web development, whether you want to build a personal web site, or you're looking to make a career out of it. It's important to commit important tags and terms to...
View ArticleAdobe's Brackets is a Free Text Editor for Web Developers
Windows/OS X/Linux: Adobe just launched Brackets 1.0, a text editor for web developers. It's free and has Inline Editing, Live Preview, and Preprocessor Support features, which all deliver unique...
View ArticleThis Graphic Translates Web Design Feedback into Plain English
We've all heard stories of people who look at a website mockup and say something like "It needs more pop!" or "Make it sleeker," without being specific about what they're looking for. It can be a pain,...
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Coolors Makes It Incredibly Easy to Find the Perfect Color Scheme
Whether you’re designing a web page or just trying to find theme for decorating, having a good color scheme that looks good is important. The web site and iOS app Coloors makes finding new palettes as...
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Learn to Avoid the Most Common Design Mistakes with This Free Course
Beginning designers tend to make the same common mistakes. Design Pitfalls is a free course delivered weekly to your email inbox that will teach you how to avoid them.Read more...
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In Defense of Design: When Form Matters as Much as Function
Everyone thinks they understand good design, and while we all understand our tastes, there’s more to making a product well designed than just making it pretty. Form and function have to combine to work...
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Bob Ross Ipsum Generates Dummy Text with Happy Little Paragraphs
Need to generate some placeholder text? Sure, you could use the standard Latin gibberish, but a more soothing and entertaining alternative is this generator using quotes from painter Bob Ross.Read more...
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Find the Best Color Scheme for Your Website with This Guide
You have millions of colors to choose from for your website, which makes choosing a color scheme an overwhelming decision. Smashing Magazine’s guide to choosing colors will help you find the perfect...
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Learn the Basics of Good Web Design in Four Minutes with This Tool
Let’s say you’re new to web design, but you’re intent on learning how to build a site from start to finish. It can be a lot of info to take in, but this interactive tool can at least help get you...
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Learn the Basics of Responsive Web Design With These GIFs
If you’re a web developer, you need to consider how your designs will appear on mobile sites. Responsive web design is an excellent way to adapt to all screen sizes. These GIFs can teach you how it...
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NameCheckr Finds Out If Your Name Is Available Across Dozens of Sites
When you come up with a sweet new name for a site (or just yourself online), it sucks when you find out that it’s been taken on some sites. NameCheckr searches dozens of sites at once to see if your...
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Learn Some CSS, 30 Seconds at a Time
If you’re learning CSS, or you want a friendly introduction to some of its terms and concepts, try 30 Seconds of CSS. Each entry on this site shows a different bit of code, demonstrates the result, and...
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Read the Stripped Down, Text-Only Version of CNN.com
Last fall, CNN announced a text-only version of its site, linking to text-only articles, so people with spotty internet connections (like the people then in Hurricane Irma’s path). Lite.cnn.io is ugly,...
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How to Notice and Avoid Dark Patterns Online
Have you ever noticed how online accounts are incredibly easy to sign up for, but can be hair-pullingly difficult to close? Sometimes the Close Account option is right where you’d think it would be,...
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Start Learning HTML and CSS With This Ultimate Guide
There are so many ways to learn web development, your problem might be how to choose a starting point. The design site CSS-Tricks has their own guide for learning HTML and CSS—but they’ve compiled...
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Play This Hilarious Game to Learn About Bad UI
If a website has ever annoyed you with too many pop-ups, stupidly designed menus, or a million tests to prove you’re a human, then the web game User Inyerface will drive you nuts while making you...
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