A collection of essays, HOWTOs, rants, inspirations, and links for coders, designers, and other folks tickled by the details of technology.
I'm Bruce Alderson. I design and build software and other interesting things. I also love to push pixels, pencils, inks, web design, and digital imagery.

The elevator pitch is that Scroll helps you make magazine style layouts for the web and iPad without needing to know how to code.

Enter your company name and click "Generate" to generate several paragraphs of corporate gibberish suitable for pasting into your prospectus.
(The gibberish is geared more toward Internet and technology companies.)

You forgot to include paywalls...

Background Labs feature a wide variety of Photoshop backgrounds, patterns, textures and graphics for use in customizing your Twitter profile, blogs and websites. Browse by color, by tags and styles. It can't get simpler to find any graphics than on Background Labs!

The Ministry of Type is a weblog by me, Aegir Hallmundur, about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things that inspire me. I am a designer originally from the far north of England, now living and working in Brighton in the far south of England. I love hand-tracing and recreating old designs as vector artwork, and there are many examples of that in this site. I have a portfolio here containing some examples of my paid work. I don't do comments here, but you're most welcome to contact me: I've got a contact form on every article page, and one here.

If you wanted to design your own bank notes or passport you might consider using a Guilloché pattern as one of your anti-counterfeiting measures.

Patternify is a simple pattern generator. I built it to save myself the pain of launching Photoshop just to export a 2px by 2px stripe pattern. Not only can you build your pattern online, but with the base64 code, you don't even need an image file anymore: just include the code in your CSS and you're ready to go!

If you’ve just arrived here and you’re wondering what it’s all about then this page should help you out. Tileables is a collection of free, seamless patterns and textures. That’s about it. They’re designed to be repeated as background images and they’re supplied in the .PAT format for Adobe Photoshop. The .PSD files are included for your own customisations and .PNG’s of the tiles are rendered in each pack so you can use them in other applications.

A few weeks ago we looked at the process of making seamless tiles. As super-​​useful as seamless tiles are, it can be tough to get the balance just right.

Subtle Patterns is a collection of 94 high quality design patterns for
you to use freely. New patterns added weekly. A project by Atle Mo.

A script that lets you use only unprefixed CSS properties everywhere. It works behind the scenes, adding the current browser’s prefix to any CSS code, only when it’s needed.

There are different formats known as standard banner size. The standards evolved from guidelines several market leaders worked out in early days. Of course, everybody is free to define their own formats but we recommend you design your banners and ads in standard formats to correspond with most advertisers. You may want to take the graphics (right click and "save to disk") we created to see what they look like in your website design. The size of ad units is defined in pixel - width x height. Set the values of your image to the respective format when you start designing your banner. Have a good advertising!

Designing an HTML email that renders consistently across the major email clients can be very time consuming. Support for even simple CSS varies considerably between clients, and even different versions of the same client.
We’ve put together this guide to save you the time and frustration of figuring it out for yourself. With 24 different email clients tested, we cover all the popular applications across desktop, web and mobile email.
As the number of email clients continues to grow, we’ve decided to simplify the web-based version of the guide to focus on the 10 most popular email clients on the market. For the complete report on all 24 email clients across the desktop, web and mobile email world, download the complete guide in PDF format.

The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.

All of the below use only a single HTML element. Any kind of CSS goes, as long as it's supported in at least one browser.

Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.

Презентация по докладу Вадима Макеева, прозвучавшему на конференции «РИТ 2011» 26 апреля в Москве. Видео см. http://vimeo.com/25823931

It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame... basically it saves webpages as images - either to a file, or to the clipboard. It captures Flash too!