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Quoted: This pervasiveness of the open source spirit in web design now means that you can use open source software to design both graphics and your CSS and HTML, and you can also use the dozens of reliable open source code resources or thousands of templates to base your own designs on. In this article we highlight 100 open source web design tools, resources, and templates.

Highly recommended. With html + css, there are many ways to do different things (tabs, font sizing, etc.). This book gives you the "best" and most "bulletproof" way based on the author's own experience as a web developer.

Quoted: Each chapter starts out with an example of what Dan refers to as an “unbulletproof” concept—an existing site that employs a traditional approach and its associated pitfalls. Dan then deconstructs that approach, noting its downsides and then making the site over using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). By the end of each chapter, you’ll have replaced traditional, bloated, inaccessible page components with lean markup and CSS. The guide culminates with a chapter that pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single page template.

Some good (maybe obvious?) ideas.

Quoted: Choose a colour you like, say rgb(251, 160, 206). Then consistently minus or add a value from each colour value to create other colours for the palette.

Very good list!

Quoted: Here are 10 things I've learned from using Flickr:
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1) Making online content default to public instead of private creates community
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2) Every web service needs to have a profile for every user
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3) Users should be encouraged to comment on other user's posts
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4) Tagging content is better than foldering content and the tags should be public
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5) Users should be encouraged to tag their content when it is posted to the service
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6) Widgets should be used to make content available off of the service
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7) Content on the service should be "bloggable" with one click
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8) Engagement metrics like comments, favorites, views, can and should be used to drive discovery (the most interesting algorithm)
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9) Geotagging is great but we've yet to see a great interface for geotagging
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10) Machine tagging (autotagging) is the next big thing in web 2.0

Quoted: This brief but important book lays out a specific five-step strategy--called the Core Process--that can always be applied to the development of Web sites and fine-tuned to almost any type of project. Each step--defining the project, developing site structure, visual design and testing, production and QA, and launch and beyond--contains three related but distinct tracks. The text begins with a brief overview of each of the steps, then delves deeper into each with detailed explanations as well as specific forms and project-management strategies. This book does not cover back-end, server-side programming. Instead, it focuses primarily on the visual, conventional components of a Web site.

Quoted: Why do some organizations look great... and get great results from their design efforts and ads... while others languish in mediocrity? I think it has little to do with who they hire and a lot to do with how they work with their agencies and designers.

essentially a bunch of guidelines articulating that less is more. nonetheless..an interesting quick read.

Quoted: 9) Forget about the killer feature. Welcome to the age of the killer user-experience. When technology achieves something desirable without being in your face, when ...

some good design templates here...sorted by rating.

Quoted: Download and upload free web designs.