Archive for the ‘Found Fridays’ Category

Found Friday Vol 62

July 22, 2011

This week’s Found Friday is all about web development. I’d like to say I planned that, but really it just sort of happened that way. Anywho, this week we have: a tutorial on creating a settings page in WordPress; a tool for real-time CSS editing; a beautifully clean & simple Javascript select plugin; some new fonts; and a boilerplate for responsive & mobile-friendly website design.

Create a Settings Page for Your WordPress Website

This tutorial is long and in-depth, but it’s worth a read. The subject material isn’t simple either – recommended for somewhat experienced WordPress developers.

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Found Friday Vol 61

July 15, 2011

Happy Friday, and welcome to volume 61 of the best design finds of the week: Found Fridays. This week we have: a beautiful icon pack that comes with embeddable @font-face icons; a big list of new jQuery plugins; an article with some good tips on driving traffic to your site; a newly launched site with ‘designy’ temporary tattoos; and a combo iPhone case and bottle opener. Nice.

Tipogram

This sleek & simple icon pack costs $24, and you get the vector icons as well as @font-face icons to embed in your websites. Pretty solid.

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Found Friday Vol 60

July 8, 2011

Found Friday Vol 60 is here, to see you off into yet another weekend. Hopefully yours is filled with greatness, whether design-related or not. Speaking of design-related greatness, this week’s finds include: a series of awesome gadget covers/cases; a list of great one-page apps for web designers; a jQuery plugin that makes creating custom dropdowns a breeze; a great article on “ego-management” for freelancers; and an article exploring designers who have used giveaways to establish themselves as industry leaders. Read on!

Incase APC Collection

Some awesome denim covers/cases for Macbooks, iPads, and other gadgets. If you’re gonna have the goods, might as well dress ‘em up.

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Found Friday Vol 59

June 24, 2011

This week’s best design finds are varied, enlightening and entertaining. We have: ten free tools to manage snippets of code; an innovative design solution to littering; an article on letting go of pixel-perfect web design; a great look at the new Van Gogh museum identity system; and a camera that lets you focus your shot after you’ve taken it. Read on!

10 Free Desktop Applications for Managing Code Snippets

I reuse snippets of code all the time, especially with WordPress sites – can’t remember everything! This list showcases 10 different desktop apps that help you organize these snippets (I use Snippley, personally).

10 Code Snippet Apps

Play with Trash

Check out Lucerne’s (city in Switzerland) solution to get people to throw away their garbage – make it fun. Now that’s design – solves a problem, and looks good while doing it.

Play with Trash

Time to Give Up on Controlling Our Designs

This article is a must-read for old, new and aspiring web designers alike. Can we control our designs, now that we have to deal with a wider array of desktop browsers, plus mobile applications, RSS readers, and the like? Short answer: no.

Time to Give Up on Controlling Our Designs

Van Gogh Museum Identity Redesign

This look into the new Van Gogh Museum identity is a perfect example of a visual identity being more than the sum of its parts. The logo by itself is underwhelming. But how it is used within the identity, and how the identity is rolled out across various mediums, is great.

Van Gogh Museum Identity Redesign

Lytro Camera

This camera lets you change the focus of your photo after you’ve taken it. Click through to Wired’s article and a working demo too. Pretty interesting tech.

Lytro Camera

See you next week!

Found Friday Vol 58

June 17, 2011

This week’s Found Friday is a great one – especially if you’re a WordPress guy/gal who likes the odd beer now and then. We have: a new, free WordPress e-commerce plugin; a web app to manage multiple WP installs from one location; a new web app for dealing with faxes (somehow this is still a thing, in 2011); a nifty grid calculator application; and a fridge with a built-in beer tap.

Jigoshop

This free e-commerce WordPress plugin looks great, plus it has solid documentation. Customizable too, and it’s built on WordPress 3′s custom post types functionality.

Jigoshop WordPress e-Commerce Plugin

ManageWP

From their site: “All your sites under one dashboard! ManageWP helps you manage all your WordPress sites from one dashboard, keeping them updated and secure.” Nice. Free right now, but they’ll introduce pricing at some point.

ManageWP

HelloFax

I can’t believe the ol’ facsimile machine is still something people use in today’s day and age. We can go to the moon; we can fly; we can use our phones to watch hi-def video, unlock our cars and set our DVRs to record. Yet we still get requests to fax stuff. Sigh. Anyway, maybe Hellofax will solve this problem – you can sign, edit & fax documents from your computer. Free for 5 faxes; very reasonable costs afterward.

HelloFax

GridCalc

Math is for losers and people much smarter than me. Thus, I rely on tools like GridCalc to do my design math for me. Set your total width, column width & gutter width, click go, and watch the magic happen.

GridCalc

Northstar Brew Master Fridge

Hear me out… beer is related to design because I like one after work. Plus this fridge, with its built-in tap, is a unique design. See? It totally fits in this post.

Northstar Brew Master Beer Fridge

See you next week!

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