Happy Halloween – November is almost here! Celebrate the last gasps of fall before the winter onslaught with this type-focused wallpaper. Subtle 3D touches along with some light texturing add to the visual interest. Various sizes for download below; share & enjoy!
Click to download the free November 2011 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper in 2560X1600, 1920X1200, 1680X1050, 1440X900 and 1280X800 pixels.
It’s nearing the end of the month, but before that happens: Found Friday Vol 71! This week’s finds are all over the place, but with one unifying theme: awesomeness. Yeah. Anyway, we have a new font creation app that looks fantastic; a neat site for copying & pasting cool HTML characters; a book on Pixar & their art; a short read on the effectiveness of different colors in call to action buttons; and a short but interesting look at CSS4. Yes, 4.
I’ve been studying type design like mad lately, and this app came across my radar. It looks really slick – way more user friendly than FontLab, the current industry standard. Mac OSX only; sorry Windows designers!
This site lets you easily copy & paste cool/useful HTML characters. Simple but neat.
Out of the box, WordPress is a great content management system. It has tons of functionality, and it’s easy to learn for both developers/designers and their clients who will be managing the site content. However, a little customization can go a long way to creating a more user-friendly theme, a better CMS and a more positive overall user experience for your clients. In this article, we’ll use specific “snippets” (small code samples) to achieve this goal. highlighting 8 great snippets for a more client-friendly WordPress CMS.
It’s Found Friday Vol 71, readers, and I’m sick as a dog. I thought about featuring Vicks Vaporub and Halls cough drops in order to garner some reader sympathy, but instead I decided to stick with the usual: the best design finds o’ the week. This week we have: an app for article-appreciating iOs users; a PNG masking technique for web images; a must-read on layout manipulation in WordPress; a bunch of pre-made CSS animations for your projects; and a javascript plugin that makes your videos responsive. It’s a good week to be a designer/developer, people!
I’ve been using Instapaper for a few months now, and it’s a must-have if you want to keep up to speed in the world of design and development. It just went through an awesome redesign too! Essentially, Instapaper ($2-$4 on the App Store, depending on whether for iPhone or iPad) allows you to save articles you find online to read offline later. Because there are so many awesome design & development articles being published each & every day, this is a great tool to save articles you want to read until you have time to do so.
This article gives a great tutorial on how to use PNGs to mask images on your site. For example, take a basic square image, use a circular PNG and some tidy CSS, and bam! You have a circular image. Worth checking out.
Found Friday Volume 70 is here, and with it we have the following great design/development finds from the past week: a beautiful wallpaper design based off a Steve Jobs quote; a site with a bunch of commonly used documents for web design/dev; a great responsive website framework; a collection of UX/UI documentation from large businesses like Adobe; and a big collection of links/posts regarding WordPress theme development. It’s a quality collection this week, folks!
Free for your smartphone, tablet or desktop, this wallpaper is not only beautiful – it’s motivating to boot (via @swissmiss). We call that a double whammy in “the biz”.
DocPool is “an effort to share and improve commonly used documentation in the web design & development community”. A great resource for web design/development freelancers both veteran and rookie (via @DesignerDepot).
