The Suite Spot

This excellent book by Dan Cederholm is very easy to follow and has some great techniques – recommended for everyone! … Read entire article »

Buy it from Amazon: The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web Why am I reading this? Because I’m running a web masterclass this week and as I’ve been doing Photoshop almost exclusively for several weeks fancied a bit of a refresher. It’s also a beautiful book and one of my favourites. Why should you buy it? This book (spawned from the CSS Zen Garden website) offers an analysis of some of the designs used on the Zen Garden and a look into the whole process. Topics covered include design, layout, images, typography, special effects and reconstruction (which looks at the design process for six of the featured designs). If you have a basic understanding of CSS then this will take you from walking pace to warp 8. … Read entire article »

I’m going to be adding posts about the books and magazines I’m currently reading, just in case they’re helpful to you. There will be an Amazon link with some of those posts and if you do consider buying the book (or other resource), please use that link as the small amounts of commission that I get add up and help me to keep the blog going. … Read entire article »