When I was browsing this gallery yesterday, it had most of the sites that I thought were really great and worthy of the title – “best”. I also discovered some great new sites and was inspired as well.
Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What is quality design means to us?
Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity
Got an iPhone? Take a snazzy picture with it and send it in to get a chance at winning a $500 gift certificate from the Apple Store.
Enter up to 3 photos choosing from 5 categories: Friends, Pets, Family, Fine Art, and Office.
Great video tutorial by Chris at CSS-Tricks explaining how to use sIRF 3.
sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a technology that allows you to use any font you wish on your web pages. Long story short, it uses JavaScript to target certain text page elements and replace them with a block of Flash, which is the same text only rendered with a new font.
“web.without.words started simply as a way for me “practice what I preach” — to visually represent my core belief that hierarchy, grid systems and uniformity ultimately lead to a more natural user experience — to show the overall structure of any website, by striping away all the distractions of text and ads and images and showing a site for what the eye unconsciously perceives.”
via swissmiss
Retro is in. Kick up your design with some cool classic looks with Smashing Magazine’s 35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorial roundup.
You’ll even find one from our very own PSDTuts!
Dan from Simplebits (aka the guy who wrote Bullet Proof Web Design) has a great article on how to use the best available ampersand via css. The article goes into depth about which fonts are installed by default on mac and pc.
Quicksand by Andrew Paglinawan – a free sans serf face with 7 weights – including a dashed version. Download the zip file here.
via ilovetypography
Reinders Posters is running a Picture Challenge 2008 looking for talented new designers and photographers who will wow them with their poster designing skills.
The prizes up for grabs include a Macbook and an Apple Cinema Display.
