When I was trying to find a colour scheme for the current design of this site, I kept coming across these three-letter words. The three-letter words are hex codes for just a few of the many web-safe colours. The…
When I was trying to find a colour scheme for the current design of this site, I kept coming across these three-letter words. The three-letter words are hex codes for just a few of the many web-safe colours. The…
Stripe Generator generates customizable diagonal stripes background tiles a la [insert a typical Web 2.0 site of your choice]. Sure beats fiddling with Photoshop for hours just to make the damn thing seamless….
Mmm, free Japanese-style floral brushes for Photoshop. Yummy! Almost makes me wish I were still into the whole web design thingy. I do have a new design for this here blog in the works but who knows when I’ll get…
Troy brought home a pumpkin for me to carve today. It’s going to be my very first Hallowe’en pumpkin! I’m going to carve one of the Homestar Runner characters on the pumpkin. Most likely the Old Timey Strong Bad since…
Pixel Groovy is a new-to-me, Digg-type site for tutorials. There’s a bunch of links to web and graphic design tutorials that seem interesting. If you like to experiment with design, this site is worth a bookmark….
Brick-O-Lizer is meant to be used to make LEGO mosaic designs, but I’ve found that you can also use it to make simple, greyscale pixel art. Just upload a .gif or .jpg image you’d like to pixellate and this tool…
When Vector Meets Photo. I’ve been meaning to give this tutorial a try for a while but procrastination always gets the better of me. Hopefully posting this will make me get to it….
Arcade Daze is a collection of 20 freeware icons from the Icon Factory featuring characters from retro arcade games such as Super Mario, Ms. Pacman, and Space Invaders. Cool stuff! (via notcot.org — an awesome blog!)…
While checking my site statistics, I saw with horror some referrals from Hot or Not Designs. Apparently someone has submitted my site to it (pretty sure it wasn’t me). It’s like the year 2000 all over again. And I thought…
Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. Here are my favourite snippets, all from one user. I’ve had it bookmarked…
If you need a header image but are lacking the design skills to create one yourself, browse this collection of Free Web Page Headers and see if there’s something you like. The headers come in small (800×200) and large (1600×200)…
What is Beauty? Or, On the Aesthetics of Wind Farms is a pretty interesting article. Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. I, for one, find those wind turbines fascinating….
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