Laurent's Blog

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Dwellings in the enchanting world of web design

Showcases

• CSS Beauty


• CSS Zen Garden


• Style Gala


• CSSTux

Tutorials and ressources

• HTML Dog - HTML, CSS tutorials and stuff


• A List Apart - CSS & XHTML ressources


• Smashing Magazine - 65 Photoshop Tutorials to make Web 2.0 designs


• Maxdesign - Tutorials about floats, lists and selectors


• Veerle’s tutorial section on her blog

Cool designers

• Veerle Pieters - Veerle is a talented designer from Belgium


• Simon Collison (a.k.a “Colly) - Colly is a Brit web designer who loves rock music, tea and biscuits


• Andy Budd - Designer at Clearleft, UK


• Steven P. Sharpe - Designer at Gleam Studios, UK

The books I am reading

• “Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional”, by Simon Collison
  


• “CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions”, by Andy Budd, Cameron Moll and Simon Collison
  


• “Blog Design Solutions”, by Andy Budd, Richard Rutter, John Oxton and David Powers
  

I hope you find them useful. :-)

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Yahoo Pipes are clogged

A mashup is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience. (read more on mashups on Wikipedia)

Out of sheer excitement and curiosity, I was going to test the service myself.

However, it seems I was not the only one with the idea.

I’ll have to wait until the plumber has done his job to go and try the service. If you want to have a glance right now, pay a visit to Techcrunch to see their review. They got there early. :-)