In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have an article discussing the best practices of CSS3 techniques; a guide to properly saving images for the web; some tips for using CSS3 to style up your web forms; a fantastic Illustrator icon tutorial; and a fun website by a talented character designer.
WebDesigner Wall
As the use of CSS3 properties becomes increasingly popular in the world of web design, WebDesigner Wall takes us through some of the most stunning examples, and talks about some best practices when using enhancements such as shadows, rounded corners and transitions.
Six Revisions
Saving images for the web might seem like a pretty basic task, but there’s a lot of technical details and useful information you might be missing out on. This comprehensive guide from Six Revisions looks at the entire process of optimising an image for web use.
Nettuts
New CSS3 properties can make it a breeze to style up your HTML elements without the hassle of background images and Javascript techniques of the past. Nettuts takes a look at the process of using these new CSS3 properties in styling up a pretty web form.
Vectips
Vectips takes us through the process of designing a detailed briefcase icon in this fantastic Adobe Illustrator tutorial. Learn how to build the basic structure with simple shapes, then add gradients to bring the icon to life.
Behind the Website
Illustrator and character designer Ricardo Gimenes has been hard at work building his awesome website Behind the Website with characterised versions of the figures behind some well known sites on the web. I had the pleasure of being featured as Chris Spooner, Master of the Design!
Nice articles, especially the css3 tutorial of webdesigner wall. And to say that IE9 might actually (finally) support css3 makes it so much sweeter.
Nettuts rocks! nice Illustration on Ricardo Gimenes site!
Some great stuff here…and some articles I didn’t get to this week. Thx for the post!
Out of ideas this week?
Nettuts rocks! nice Illustration on Ricardo Gimenes site!
Web designer wall has always been my fav inspiration regarding all aspects of web development.
Awesome! Great tuts!
Thank you for posting such a brief and poignant look at your favorite sites for this week.
Behind the Website looks great, it can be seen by a mile that it implied a lot of hard work, but the results are brilliant! :)
Ohh nice article.I like ricardo gimenes site…