Cool stuff for Web Designers

Tim Van Damme:

Keep chipping away at your skills and the rest will follow!

Anatomy of a perfect landing page

I think this is the way to collect key information from conferences. Check out SXSW Interactive 2008 Sketchnotes

Simple, original, cool and very elegant test for your best font. What type are you?

I did it, thanks to 2 great apps.
Focus booster is simple, but really effective application, which stimulate you concentration..
Stay focused is Chrome extension, which helps you control your time on FaceBook and other similar time consuming, useless sites :P Really works!

List of very useful Chrome extensions:

• StayFocusd for controlling your time on FaceBook and others social portals
• Window Resizer - it is very useful for designers, who want to make sure, that web site looks good in all browsers
• Web Developer for some useful tools, which doesn't have standard Chrome inspector
• Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate for collecting your "inspiration"
• AdBlock for blocking ads. No more explanation needed ;)
• SEO Site Tools
• Color Picker for picking colors.
• Chrome snifer for inspecting web framework / CMS and javascript library running on current browsing website.

I visit this site for years. It is just the best. Interfacelift

How to Write a Great Twitter Bio to Get Targeted Followers and example of well made twitter profile

Great application for quick creation of a web project framework with valid HTML/XHTML and CSS in only a matter of seconds. Check out Blueprint

Before you create it, it's definitely worth check out this:
How to Design the Perfect Business Card and 31 Creative Business Cards

Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website

If you do. Click here and you don’t any more :D

Charles Eames:
“The details are not the details. They make the design.”

Paul Rand:
“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.”

Steve Jobs:
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Parties. According to Steven Johnson, this is where ideas come from. Party is where different people meets, communicate and shares their ideas and where comes totally new and crazy ones :) I like this point of view :D

Thanks to Sam Brown. Ready to use :)

CSS:
.box {
-khtml-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
}

Try 20 things I learned. Made by Google. Fery smooth, well designed project.

If you don’t know what browser do you use:P Try this: What browser
Thank you Google :P

CSS:
text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.699219) 0px 1px 0px, rgba(120, 0, 182, 0.4) 0px 0px 7px; color:#555;

Cameron Moll on LessConference spoke on the subject of Good Design vs. Great Design. I was impressed by they way Cameron evaluate his work, using a simply blur filter in Photoshop. This method helps with checking the most visible elements of design from different perspective. It is quick and effective. This is why I like it.

Check Cameron Moll on LessConference (The whole presentation is worth to see. Mentioned method starts at about 21:45)

Neven Mrgan shares his technique of creating pixel-precise graphics. Thanks to this you don’t have zoom at all, what helps save time and effort. You have more time for doing nothing :)