10 Creative Ways to Recycle Ordinary ObjectsRecycling doesn’t have to be limited to helping the environment: it can also be a challenge and opportunity to ingenious designers who work with materials most people would consider waste to create amazing things. Some of the following designs serve multiple purposes: illustrating the material possibilities of what most would consider trash while also maximizing the aesthetic potential of what would otherwise be considered waste objects. Clothes become rugs, airline trolleys become furniture, cardboard becomes bridges and sewage turns into building blocks!Posted at January 5, 2009
Progressive Enhancement with CSSA lot of web designers and developers don’t think much about how they incorporate stylesheets into their documents, but there is a real art to it. With the right methods, you can immediately gain many of the benefits of progressive enhancement.Posted at December 29, 2008
24 ways | Recession Tips For Web DesignersFor web designers, there are four keys to surviving bad economic times: do good work, charge a fair price, lower your overhead, and be sure you are communicating with your client. As a reader of 24 ways, you already do good work, so let’s focus on the rest.Posted at December 29, 2008
24 ways | Charm clients and win pitchesOver the years I have picked up a number of sales techniques that have lead to us doing pretty well in the pitches we go for. Of course, up until now, these top secret practices have remained firmly locked in the company vault but now I am going to share them with you. They are cunningly hidden within the following paragraphs so I’m afraid you’re going to have to read the whole thing.Posted at December 29, 2008
Fading color effect for inline text links using jQueryHere's a simple UX trick that can be easily implemented into your web sites. With a few lines of jQuery it will make your text links fade to another color on rollover. How? Read on.Posted at December 22, 2008
FREE CHRISTMAS STUFF: Social Balls IconsZeus Box have created a really slick set of festive social bookmarking icons for the design community. These Christmas ornament style icons feature all of the major social media outlets you may use to promote your website. Feel free to download them.Posted at December 22, 2008