Category: Webdesign Articles

How To Help Kill IE6

sjim
08/08/09

A lot, if not all, webdesigners hate IE6. This version of Internet Explorer was released in late 2001 but still was one of the larger webbrowsers in 2009. This is w3 school's table for this year, as you can see IE7 will probably go under IE6 in the next months:

July 2009

IE7: 15.9%
IE6: 14.4%
IE8: 9.1%
Firefox: 47.9%
Chrome: 6.5%
Safari: 3.3%
Opera: 2.1%

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16 Webdesign Awards Sites You Should Be On

sjim
07/06/09

1.


My Design Award

Web Design Gallery, top web 2.0 css and flash websites on the web, web design award
http://www.mydesignaward.com/

2.


Design Licks

Since 2006, Design Licks has become a reference in the world of web design awards. Everyday hundreds of websites apply but only one website is designated as the Site of the day.
http://www.designlicks.com/

3.

IOWA Webawards
Goal is to honor all those that are taking the local internet experience in Iowa to the next level. We are currently taking category suggestions followed by community generated nominations.
http://iowawebawards.com/

4.

Cool Homepages.com
CoolHomepages web site design gallery of homepages, web site designs and templates features thousands of website design thumbnail examples and links for users to browse, search, learn, get inspired.
http://www.coolhomepages.com/

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14 Top Resources for Photoshop Brushes

sjim
06/29/09

1.

MyPhotoshop brushes
A very large collection in different categories. ie. #Ornaments, #Nature, #Human

2.

colourlovers
awesome community with a very large selections of brushes, also has colors, palettes and patterns

3.

Qbrushes
Collection of high-quality photoshop brushes

4.

PSBrushes
is a large categorized collection of download-able brushes

5.

Brusheezy
is all about brushes. There is a big collection to download or rate.

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If you ask me, a community website is one of the hardest to build.
You can get a broad variety of paid and free forum software, but to get people to post is never easy. You will need to interest them a lot.

There are a lot of great tips available on how to get your forum started, for insance:
The best tips to get your forum started - Admin Zone Forums

Basically, the most import things to do is to fill your forum with relevant content. This is very time consuming but really pays off. It sounds tempting to pay a small amount of money to 'boost' your forums with a few posts and threads. after all 'not having to spend all those hours yourself' will be worth the money.

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12 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations

sjim
06/20/09

I made a selection of beautiful abstract illustration work, enjoy!


Ultraviolet Rays by ^archanN on deviantART

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