My submission to CSS Zen Garden

January 28, 2010
CSS Zen Garden Design

Submitting a design to CSS Zen Garden is one of those things I’ve always wanted to have a go at but never seemed to be able to find the time. I finally “bit the bullet”, dedicated some quality time to a design, and submitted it. Will it be accepted? Who knows but fingers crossed!

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Five Free Fonts you’d happily pay for – Thick & Chunky Fonts #1

January 18, 2010
Chunky, Thick Free Fonts

Here’s a selection of thick, chunky and often unusual fonts for your logo designs…

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Five Free Fonts you’d happily pay for – Thin & Light Fonts #1

January 17, 2010
Free Fonts - Thin and Light

Thin or light fonts can be invaluable when it comes to designing effective logos or navigation links. They are often especially effective in larger sizes. Here are 5 free thin fonts that you won’t be able to live without…

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Bugfix – “current” class not passed to Home nav menu link in Thesis Wordpress theme

January 17, 2010
Wordpress Logo

This is a problem I’ve seen posted on forums in a few places and I stumbled across the solution by accident while trying to sort out the navigation bar for this site.

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Vintage Movie Posters – “Drugsploitation” Movies

January 16, 2010
Drugsploitation Vintage Movie Posters

This time around, the focus is on “Drugsploitation” movies. Films which, again, are mainly low budget B-Movies, focussing on popular myths and fears surrounding the drug culture that blossomed in the 60s and 70s. I think some of these are particularly inspiring and this set contains a couple of my favourite movie posters of all time

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Vintage Movie Posters – “Carsploitation” Movies

January 13, 2010
Carsploitation Vintage Movie Posters

I love using vintage film posters, both as inspiration for typography and layout of designs but also as colour palettes for website designs. I thought I’d share some of my favourites so that you might benefit from them too.

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World’s Worst Website? January 2010 – BumBumRalf

January 4, 2010
Bum Bum Ralf

A slight contrast from last month’s entry, Bum Bum Ralf’s site is utterly amazing and definitely falls into the “so bad it’s brilliant” category. It pretty much has EVERYTHING you could ask for in a terrible website

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Excellent series of free tutorial videos for creating simple slideshows in Flash

December 22, 2009

I stumbled across these tutorials a while ago while brushing up on my Flash skills and found them quite useful. They are heavily based on Actionscript and it’s a good place to introduce yourself to coding Flash, rather than relying on the timeline, etc.

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Absolutely huge list of quality, free grunge fonts

December 10, 2009
Grunge Fonts

I’ve tried to compile what I think is the definitive list of free grunge fonts. There are close to 200 high quality free fonts here but I’d like to hear your opinions. Have I missed any?

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