Stupid Sucks!

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All too often, I see a great design concept with a poor choice of colors. Part of what makes a great web design “great” is layout, typography and color. When each of these aspects work to compliment each other, great design is born.

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Have you ever wondered what the difference is between JPEG, GIF, and PNG images we use on the web? As a designer – and especially a web designer – it’s important to know the difference between the different image formats and how to use them in each situation. This article will cover how to use them for each situation to keep file sizes small and image quality high.

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Math is beautiful. Does that sound a little strange? I sure thought so when I first started designing. Math is so rigid and often times boring, or so I thought. You would be surprised to find out that most aesthetically pleasing designs, works of art, objects and even people have math in common. Specifically the Golden Ratio, also known as the divine proportion, which is designated by the Greek letter Φ (phi). This tutorial will cover the anatomy and layout of a website and how the Golden Ratio relates.

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First of all it’s the 1 year anniversary of net.tutsplus.com (formerly nettuts.com) which is awesome since I love the tutorials and information I get from that site.

Now, about the really good stuff… In celebration of their 1 year anniversary they’re having a “little” competition at ThemeForest.net (owned by the same company).

There will be 5 winners getting some neat prizes but 1st place is just awesome. 1st place will get $2000 worth of free web hosting at Media Temple on a RAGE server (40GB storage, 512MB RAM, 1.5TB bandwidth) normally $100/m or $1000/y. 1st place will also get a lot more. read more…

Finally IE 6 could be a nightmare of the past now that Microsoft has finally decided to do something about this rusty nail (IE6) in web developers heels. Microsoft will be distributing IE8 via Automatic Update (Windows Update), even to users still running IE6 or IE7 on everything newer than, and including, Windows XP. This could be what finally kills off IE6! w00t!

You can read more at: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/04/10/prepare-for-automatic-update-distribution-of-ie8.aspx

Ok, I thought this was awesome. I have a serious need for speed so this was right up my alley. You can see it at Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjF4tK7P840