In what way has the previous knowledge of graphic design rules and the use of the grid transformed on the web platform? In a canvas composed with pixels would not be logic to follow a set of rules that would naturally fit into those same pixels? How are we using the medium to our own benefit and how can we take advantage of its full potential? Are today’s online newspapers embracing the web fully as a new medium or are they anchored to the paper metaphor, disregarding the possibilities of the online platform and leaving the users with a poorer information experience? Should information be presented in the same format no matter the nature of its content? We try to research how the most notorious online newspapers of Europe and South America are addressing this issues and its ways of doing so.

На веб-странице достаточно часто возникает задача визуально отделить одну информацию от другой, например, выделить текстовый блок и акцентировать на нем внимание. Подобный вопрос возникал еще до эпохи Интернета и нашел свое отражение в трудах по гештальт-психологии. Применяя подобный опыт в дизайне веб-страниц, можно быть уверенным, что мы действуем с учетом человеческого восприятия, что подтверждается трудами классиков, опытом и экспериментами.

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Booklet is a jQuery tool for displaying content on the web in a flipbook layout.

Wirify is a bookmarklet that lets you turn any web page into a wireframe in one click. It’s lightweight and works in many modern browsers.

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Patterno is a tiled pattern and background image generator for Mac OS X. Allows to easily create background for Twitter, MySpace or any other site. Can be used to create wallpapers, postcards, book covers and so on.

This is a behavior htc file for Internet explorer to make CSS property " border-radius " work on all browsers. At present, all major browsers other than IE shows curved corner by adding 4 lines of css.

This work in constant progress is some collected wisdom, stuff I've learned on the topic of .htaccess hacking, commands I've used successfully in the past, on a variety of server setups, and in most cases still do. You may have to tweak the examples some to get the desired result, though, and a reliable test server is a powerful ally, preferably one with a very similar setup to your "live" server. Okay, to begin...

PIE makes Internet Explorer 6-8 capable of rendering several of the most useful CSS3 decoration features.

There are lots of ways to spec a new color swatch in InDesign, but they’re all based on RGB, CMYK, Lab, or a color library such as Pantone or Trumatch. Many folks brought up with HTML find it helpful to spec colors in hex code (such as #41bbac)) or using standard HTML color names (such as red, purple, or darksalmon). If you’re into those kinds of colors, you’re going to love this new, free add-on from in-tools.com called ?CreateHexSwatch.

CreateHexSwatch is technically a “start-up script,” which means it shows up as an actual menu command, not in the Scripts panel. It works with InDesign CS3, CS4, or CS5. It comes with an mxp installer which works in CS5, or — if you’re using CS4 or CS3 — you can simply drag the “?CreateHexSwatch” folder into your Scripts folder (inside your InDesign application folder).

Viewport ads couple of extra selectors to jQuery. With these selectors you can check whether element is inside or outside of viewport.

A powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor from ColorZilla

The ultimate resource in grid systems.

One of the easiest online password generators which can generate a single random password or lists of hundreds of random passwords. You choose the character sets, password length and the quantity to create. Hash values can also be created for your convenience. This password generator is useful for getting a random password for personal use or for generating large lists of default passwords.

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ModularGrid — небольшой Javascript (около 30 Кб), который призван облегчить работу HTML-верстальщику.

This online tool generates dummy images for you site: you can specify size, background and foreground colors, image format and add custom text. You can also use shortcuts for several standard dimensions including ad sizes (mediumrectangle, skyscarper, leaderboard etc.), screen resolution sizes and video standards (ntsc, pal, hd720, hd1080).