The jQuery foundation has created a new site showcasing designs that Use jQuery. They currently have only about 30 samples organized by effect/function category, but they do accept submissions so show off that great interface or behavior that you’ve created!
I recently stumbled upon a list of 54 Kick Ass Creative Logos which in turn led me to Logo Faves, who accept submissions from designers, and describe themselves as:
A collection of best designed logos around the web is showcased in Logo Faves. We don’t want to be like other Logo repositories, our idea is to bring you all the best of best logos.
Also relying on suggestions and entries from webmasters to compile its collection, Web2.0 categorizes over 100 logos and displays the user-ratings for each.
FontFeed took a bit of a different approach in grouping popular web logos by style, and even though the article was published in 2006, it is still a great source of information.
So what are you waiting for? Check out some of the design resources over at For Web Designers and submit your best work!
Of course, you could always just use a pre-configured generator.
Looking for the perfect font system for your design, compare different styles side-by-side, or embed non-”web-safe” typeface in the layout? There’s a web application for that.
Highlights include:
Check out the entire list of 21 Typography and Font Web Apps You Can’t Live Without.
What with history being made today, I thought I would take the opportunity to share an article that provides insight into the recent administration’s two terms of office.
In the article Farewell to All That, Vanity Fair recounts the past eight years of our government’s legislative branch as told through excerpts from interviews with those close to the events.
At 14 paginated screens, it’s well worth the read:
The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? A sweeping draft of history—distilled from scores of interviews—offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other key players.
Jon Hobbs-Smith from the UK web development firm TVI Design has compiled a list of 25 tips to making your jQuery-powered applications easier to script and faster loading. While some of the items may be considered common knowledge (such as return false; for click events to prevent default behavior) the list provides excellent links and resources to people interested in using the Write Less, Do More JavaScript Library.
Considering almost all the recent updates to the framework relate to improving speed, why not take fullest advantage of them in making your application as responsive as possible?
What’s “Black and white and read GREEN all over?”
Spranq, a creative communications agency in the Netherlands taken the conservation movement to typography.
The theory behind the font face:
Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, free to use.
