*Miscellaneous The Official Guide to HTML5 Boilerplate
Submitted by matt 18 minutes ago (more from net.tutsplus.com)In this screencast, Paul Irish meticulously reviews each page, and then further goes on to explain why and when you would use each snippet in your projects. The product of years of learning, this video is not to be missed! Even if you have no intention of using this template, you’ll still learn an array of helpful techniques.
*Design Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources
Submitted by matt 6 days ago (more from smashingmagazine.com)To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. A truly impressive list worth checking out.
*HTML/CSS Periodic Table of HTML5 Elements
Submitted by matt 7 days ago (more from joshduck.com)This table shows the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft. Very handy!
*Tech News Call phones from Gmail
Submitted by matt 8 days ago (more from googletalk.blogspot.com)Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail.
*Miscellaneous Top 10 Client-Side Performance Problems in Web 2.0
Submitted by matt 8 days ago (more from blog.dynatrace.com)The Top 10 Client-Side performance problems in Web 2.0 applications I’ve seen when working with our dynaTrace AJAX Edition users. Tools such as dynaTrace AJAX Edition or Google Speed Tracer allow analyzing these blank spots that block further network downloads as they analyze JavaScript execution, DOM access and Rendering activity in the browser while loading a page
*HTML/CSS Webtype - Better fonts for better websites.
Submitted by matt 13 days ago (more from webtype.com)Webtype provides high-end fonts for online typography. We offer web designers the resources they need to bring professional branding and style to their websites. With Webtype, consistent typographic fidelity will finally be available with a new palette of professional fonts tailored specifically for the web.
*Miscellaneous 17 Very Useful Free Online Typography Tools
Submitted by matt 13 days ago (more from dzineblog.com)For everyday font-related tasks there are online type tools and using these tools, you can save hours of searching, typing, testing and coding, and the most important thing: the tools are all free! Some I haven't seen before that look interesting are: Wordle text cloud generator (for design work). Text ascii art generator (to put in your source code), and an OCR to text converter.
*HTML/CSS CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool’s Gold
Submitted by matt 15 days ago (more from cloudfour.com)Unfortunately, CSS media query is fool’s gold for mobile devices. It hides tough problems and gives developers a false promise of a simple solution for designing to multiple screens. I’m going to point out several technical flaws with media queries. Nearly all of them rely on my belief that speed matters more on mobile devices. When designing for mobile, performance is a key consideration.
*Usability Dark Patterns: Black Hat, Anti-Usability Design Patterns
Submitted by matt 15 days ago (more from darkpatterns.org)This pattern library is dedicated to Dark Patterns: user interfaces that have been designed to trick users into doing things they wouldn’t otherwise have done. Dark Patterns are different – they are not mistakes, they are carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind.
*HTML/CSS HTML5 Reset - A simple set of best practices to get your HTML5 project going
Submitted by matt 16 days ago (more from html5reset.org)We usually start every HTML project with the same set of HTML and CSS templates. Now that modern browsers are starting to support some of the really useful parts of HTML5 and CSS3, it's time for an update, and we thought we'd put it out there for everyone to use.