Web design

Jeffrey Veen summed up Webstock 2010 when he showed this slide. @ravenhall suggested it would make a good t-shirt.

If you'd like to wear your inner geek on the outside, or put some posters up around the office to remind you why you come to work on the bad days then download this as a vector pdf file.

Heli Test sees NZ music video director Samuel Peacocke trying out some tilt-shift trickery. Via Vimeo.

Completely unrelated to the Colenso BBDO campaign for Auckland city - but a much nicer rendering of pixels than the new campaign website: www.biglittlecity.co.nz.

Kiwi mobile advertising agency The Hyperfactory is up for nine Webby Awards and four honoree selections, more than all New Zealand finalists combined and second in the world.

And to cap off a great start to the international awards season, the Auckland-based global agency has two nominations in both the Ad-Tech and One Club awards.

The Webby Awards are held in New York in early May and are regarded as the Oscars of the online and interactive marketing community. The One Show is also New York-based while The Ad-Tech Awards are held in San Francisco. Via Geekzone.

In January 2000, T-Online asked us what we’d do if we could design a browser from scratch. Our answer was “Tabs”. Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, asked me what I think a new tab should look like. The answer after days of mailing back and forth: “Forget tabs!” Via Information Architects.

WEB09 PRESENTS from John Ballinger on Vimeo.

The Big Idea is New Zealand’s number one online community for the creative sector – and the only website that celebrates success and achievements from every genre.  Anyone can contribute and connect through the site, with members ranging from individual creators to agencies and large public organisations.

It is now much easier and worthwhile to manage and update your profile, submit and read news, interviews and reviews, look for work and add free job listings, connect and list events and media releases, show and sell your creative work and grow your career with our education news, tips, tools and resources.  Members can also chat in the forums to build relationships, ask questions and express their opinion.

Espresso is not a bunch of apps thrown together. Instead, we looked at the needs of web developers and streamlined their workflow into one gorgeous, focused app. Fast and powerful editing, sleek projects, live preview (we make CSSEdit after all), awesome publishing and extensive synchronization tools. All this, and an amazing extensible core? It's not too good to be true. It's only one click away!

There are many many different areas web developers need to cover. First you need to find the perfect text editor, set up a local environment, find a database management tool and then find a great FTP application. And for many of us out there freelancing, we have less of a budget to work with. So here's 10 cheap or free web development tools for Windows and OS X. Via Tuts +.

Certain requirements and concepts can seem like great ideas during
initial project calls, but things can quickly fall apart when you start
laying them out on paper. Since wireframes take considerably less time
to generate than full color comps, you can spend time early on using
them to map out all of the pages for a particular site. Even at this early stage you can get a sense of the user experience and therefore spot potential usability problems with your design. Via 45royale Inc.

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