Very good post about the font format Opentype and its predecessors TrueType and PostScript by Ralf Hermann:

It’s time for some more technical web design stuff: When you use Colorbox for overlaying content in an iframe over the main website, you might want to link to another page in this iframe. If you do this, the new page will be shown in the same iframe with the colorbox design around it. Now if this new page doesn’t fit in the iframe, this will look quite messy and won’t be usable. So you want to open the new page in the parent window, but how to do this? Continue Reading »

Ever wondered what this html5 hype is all about? The answer is in this poster! Click it for larger view.

via swissmiss

This strip is just pure reality. There is more of them at kopoyky.net!

move your mouse over the icons to see the effect

You need some nice social icons, but you don’t have much space in your layout and want your page to be interactive? Then stop searching now, you just came to the right place.

These icons use not much space, yet are visually pleasing and easily recognizable. A hover effect which highlights the icons when the mouse is moved over them increases interactivity and improves User Experience (UX). They are based on these icons and use only CSS for the hover effects, so they are very accessible.

Here comes another high-res texture pack with textile structures. It contains cotton, jeans, synthetic (plastic) and leather surfaces. With around 12 megapixels resolution is quite high!

All photos by freepx.net. Free for personal and commercial use!

Format: jpg • Archive: jpg • Filesize: 13.6 MB

Although there are tons of free social icons out there in the net, I found it quite difficult to find some clean mini icons which are also free for commercial use. So I collected them myself and here you go with a set of 27 free social mini icons.

Format: .png • Size: 16x16px • Archive: .zip • Filesize: 18.1 KB • Usage restrictions: none, free for both personal and commercial use

These icons are included, in alphabetical order:

blogger • brightkite • delicious • designfloat • digg • dopplr • facebook • flickr • friendfeed • gamespot • gmail • lastfm • linkedin • mixx • myspace • newsvine • posterous • reddit • sphinn • stumbleupon • technorati • tripadvisor • tumblr • twittr • vimeo • wordpress • youtube

Here you go with an excellent collection of free high quality textures which fit perfectly to a beach, sea, shore, coastal or maritime context. Resolution is mostly around 12 Megapixels (~4200x2800px), this should be more than enough for most of your design projects. Both personal and commercial use is allowed!

All pictures taken by freepx.net. Boom!

Format: .jpg • Archive: .zip • Filesize: 46.6MB

Not? Well, me neither. Until today. I was trying to downlaod a Photoshop template in Firefox, but it did not download the file. Instead it choosed to display the file in the browser window, where you can see a nice xml structure, which seems to be used by at least parts of the document. Interesting!

This one is quite old, but I did not know it before just right now. You can spend hours with it! This is a flash animation created for a japanese product tour for the Adobe Creative Suite Web Edition. It is so colourful, dynamic and interactive!