W3C Website Redesign and Its Designs over the years

W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium, the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. It’s also famous for the W3C Markup Validation Service, which check HTML/XHTML & CSS for any mark-up errors. W3C is so important to the Internet, it gets 10/10 Google Pagerank.

Since its formation in October 1994, W3C has redesigned its website a few times and the most recent  redesign was in October this year. Let’s take a look the designs over the years of one of the most important website – w3.org.

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Mike Mitchell Illustrations

Mike Mitchell is 27 year old Concept Artist/Illustrator from in Los Angeles, California. I really dig his illustration style. Great colors and textures mixed with cute and evil characters. Hope you will get inspiration form his illustrations.

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How to: Code with superhuman speed

If you are a web developer/designer, or programmer, there are certain codes you probably need to type repeatably.

To increase productivity, you can set up code snippets and shortcuts with your favorite code editor or a text substitution software. So you can quickly type a few lines of codes with a simple phrases or shortcut you defined. This will save you a lot of precious time.

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Textbook Information Graphics

WIRED Magazine thinks the Classic 1950s Science Textbooks need to update their artworks.

The textbooks written by Roy A. Gallant taught a generation of students that science could also be art. But research progress and artistic methods evolve. So we gave these mid-century classics a 21st-century update.

Come in and take a look these beautifully illustrated Infographics.

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Text replacement with Typekit

Thinking about using Rich Typography in your web design? There are quite a few text replacement techniques such as: Image Replacement, Flash Replacement, JavaScript, PHP, and @font-face Font Embedding. The most commonly used solutions that you might have heard of are Cufón, sIFR, Typeface.js, P+C DTR… Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. Difficulty is one of the most important reason that keep web designers from using those text replacement methods.

Typekit is a service that let you easily embed both free and commercial fonts to your web design.Web designers don’t need to worry about font copyright issues when using Typekit. Because Typekit has been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license.

Although Typekit is still in beta, I got an Invite couple weeks ago. Let me walk you through, and find out if Typekit is right for you. I will give a way two Typekit Invites BTW.

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Excellent Free Photoshop Brushes Resources and Articles

Are you looking for Quality Photoshop Brushes ? Every designer should have a collection of brushes. While I find there are many websites offer Free Photoshop brushes, it seems hard to find some high quality brushes quickly.

In this article, you’ll find my top picks for Quality Brushes Resources and Articles. I hope you find this post useful and ultimately get some quality brushes.

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