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December 2011
Quick Tip: SVG Fonts & @font-face
September 2011
Can We Finally Move Beyond Mobile?
Improving the Login Form Experience
August 2011
Thoughts on Why You Should Have a Side Project
Real World CSS Practices
I Love Responsive Design, But…
July 2011
Don’t Confuse Ability with Usability
Wireframing is About More than Just Visual Layout
March 2011
Usability and CSS3 Columns
The Problem with the Nephew Stereotype
Why I Use CSS Frameworks
February 2011
How HTML5 Changes the Way We Think of Navigation
Thoughts on Measuring Success as a Designer or Developer
Open Discussion: How Much Choice Do You Offer Clients?
Freebie: Echo Minimal Icon Set
On the Integrity of the Typeface
Another Perspective on the “Best” CMS Debate
Dribbb-Folio: Between Your Current Work and Portfolio
January 2011
On The Emotional Cycle of Design
Simple Tips for Improving Web Typography
Old Trends, New Face? Patterns of Behaviour in Web Design
Review: The Power of FilterForge
Freebie: Texture Pack 7 – More Wood
Narrowing the Path of Design
Grunge Fusion: Creating Stunning Textures with Blending Modes and Filters
Giveaway: Win 1 of 3 Copies of the c5bundle
Amping up Your Design Blog in 2011
December 2010
Create and Manage Surveys with Ease with Survd
Freebie: Texture Pack 6 – Grunge
Freebie: Candy Cane Patterns
Freebie: WhatsThis? jQuery Plugin
Freebie: Texture Pack 5 – Let it Snow!
The Rule Of Conversion
Minimizing Annoying Font Problems During Print
10 More Awesome Online Tools for Design and Development
A Simple Attribute for More Semantic HTML Forms
Manually Resolving Functions
November 2010
The Messiness of Design
Making of the Contained Sticky Scroll jQuery Plugin
Learning About Design from Angry Birds
Giveaway: Win 1 of 3 Licenses for Billings
Freebie: Contained Sticky Scroll jQuery Plugin
Group WordPress Project: A Personal Branding Theme
A Decade Past: Further Evidence of the Importance of Web Standards
Group WordPress Project: A Purpose & A Name
October 2010
The Browser, The App and the Future of the Web
Imperfect Perfection: The Almost Square
Why I Use Greyscale When Designing Logos
Thinking in Shadow: Effect and Light in Design
Group WordPress Project
Thinking of Navigation as Navigation
HTML (and CSS) Do Not a Website Make
September 2010
Would Your Logo Fit on the Moon?
6 Quick Lessons from Logo Galleries
On Interfaces and Intuition
Creative Problem Solving: PHP, jQuery and the Semi-Dynamic
The Vowels of Design
Freebie: Tribal Fire Pattern
The Echo Enduring Redesign
August 2010
Considering an (x)HTML5 Methodology
Further Thoughts on CSS, Experiments and Icons
Designing Like a Writer
Are We Taking CSS Too Far?
Getting to Know Clipping Masks and Layer Masks in Photoshop
Reinventing Yourself as a Designer: Will it be Necessary?
10 Of My Favorite Online Tools for Design and Development
Driving Online Traffic Offline
July 2010
Imperfect Perfection: The Golden Ratio
Getting Motivated with Your To-Do List
On Creativity and Design
Am I Really Any Good at this Design Thing?
It’s The Little Things
Designing for the Moment
June 2010
Musings on the Relationship Between Grids and Guides
Not Every Website is Designed – A Case Study
The Manual Comic Technique
What I Learned About Design from Diapers
Cleaning Out The Design Attic
The Makeup of a Designer
First Friday Giveaway: Thousands of Vectors & Design Elements
My Problem With White Space
May 2010
Down to the Last Pixel: The Pursuit of Perfection
What Is Design?
5 Basic Usability Breakdowns You Want to Avoid
Awesome 500 Business Card Giveaway from U-Printing
Create Beautiful CSS3 Typography
A Different Type of Vintage: 40s Movie Inspired Retro
4 Ways to Approach Design Trends
Is Your Artwork Ready for Print?
Icons and the Web – Part 5: Creating and Modifying Icon Sets
April 2010
Between Art and Design
Icons and the Web – Part 4: Implementation
The Myth of Inspiration?
Icons and the Web – Part 3: Organizing Your Icons
Calling All Readers: Help Direct the Future
Echoes – Week 30 (Apr 12 2010)
Quick Tip: Precision Colour Control in Photoshop
Icons and the Web – Part 2: Collecting Icons
Echoes – Week 29 (Apr 5 2010)
First Friday Giveaway: 3 MediaLoot Grab Bags
March 2010
Icons and the Web – Part 1: Why they Matter
Echoes – Week 28 (Mar 29, 2010)
First Friday Giveaway – Winner (March 2010)
Creating Glassy Objects Using Layer Styles
Mind the Gap: 6 Ways to be Productive Through Freelance Downtime
Echoes – Week 27 (Mar 22, 2010)
Create a Colourful Web Button with CSS
Singing: All By Myself
30 Incredible Epic Movie Posters & Related Trends
More Thoughts on Language and Coding for the Web
Echoes – Week 26 (Mar 8, 2010)
First Friday Giveaway: One Free License of Fanurio
Language and Metaphor: An Alternate View on Coding for the Web
Should Designers Know How to Code? Thoughts From a Developer
Echoes – Week 25 (Mar 1, 2010)
February 2010
The Most Important Site For Any Web Designer?
Echoes – Week 24 (Feb 21, 2010)
Freebie: Heart of the Unicorn Vector
6 Things that Designers Can Learn from the Olympics
Echoes – Week 23 (Feb 15, 2010)
Exclusive Freebie: Mega Textures Pack
iPhone Lessons and the User Experience
Echoes – Week 22 (Feb 8, 2010)
The One Design Tool You Absolutely Need to Use
5 Things to Consider Before Designing Your Next Website
Echoes – Week 21 (Feb 1, 2010)
January 2010
The Fictional and Completely Made-Up Origin of Freelancing
A Broader Understanding of Value
Echoes – Week 20 (Jan 25, 2010)
10 Photoshop Filters You Should Definitely Know
Designing to Help Relief Work In Haiti
Echoes – Week 19 (Jan 18, 2010)
25 Stunning Examples of Avatar Fan Art
Echoes – Week 18 (Jan 11, 2010)
If Photoshop Was Batman, Then Illustrator Would Be…
Freebie: Texture Pack 4 – Watercolours
December 2009
That’s Why It’s Called Smashing Magazine
7 Questions, 7 Designers – Day 7
7 Questions, 7 Designers – Day 6
7 Questions, 7 Designers – Day 5
7 Questions, 7 Designers – Day 4
7 Questions, 7 Designers – Day 3
7 Questions, 7 Designers – Day 2
7 Questions, 7 Designers – Day 1
What You’re Already Doing to Bolster Your Blog Traffic
Echoes – Week 17 (Dec 14, 2009)
Create Simple Photoshop Screenshot Template (or, Just Download the Free Template)
Echoes – Week 16 (Dec 7, 2009)
Featured Designer: Steven Snell of Vandelay Design and DesignM.ag
The One Thing You Need to Do to Become a Better Designer
Echoes – Week 15 (Dec 1, 2009)
November 2009
25 Examples of Green and Grassy Websites
8 Reasons Why You Probably Shouldn’t Start a Design Blog
Echoes – Week 14 (Nov 23, 2009)
Free Stock Photos for your Website – 11 Solid Sources
Defend your Designs Against Unexpected Defaults
Echoes – Week 13 (Nov 16, 2009)
An Overview of Brushes In Illustrator
25 Creative Website Footers
Echoes – Week 12 (Nov 8, 2009)
Exclusive Freebie: Crawling Vines Vector Pattern
Why You Need to be Using Gravatars
Echoes – Week 11 (Nov 1, 2009)
October 2009
Featured Designer: Jon Phillips of SpyreStudios
Freebie: Tweevil – The Dark Twitter Bird
Echoes – Week 10 (Oct 27, 2009)
Unique and Sensational RSS Icons
21 Tactile and Textured Poster Designs
Echoes – Week 9 (Oct 18, 2009)
Giveaway: Win Vectors, Icons and Brushes from ArtBox7
25 Dark Website Designs
Echoes – Week 8 (Oct 12, 2009)
Turn your Favorite Vector Pattern into a Cool Wallpaper Background
Freebie: Abstract Blobs Pattern
Echoes – Week 7 (Oct 4, 2009)
30+ Colourful CMYK Inspired Logos
September 2009
17 Useful Pattern Resources
Echoes – Week 6 (Sep 27, 2009)
Six Technologies that Changed My Life
4 Design Related Web Comics to Give you a Giggle
Echoes – Week 5 (Sep 20, 2009)
Giveaway: Custom Vector Pack from Echo Enduring Media
Featured Artist: Lois van Baarle
Freebie: 5 Unique Photoshop Frames
Echoes – Week 4 (Sep 13, 2009)
More than Just Another Papyrus Rant
9 Wickedly Free Heraldry Vectors
Tutorial on Spyre Studios
Echoes – Week 3 (Sep 6, 2009)
Project Wrap: Cameron Shaver Logo
Quick Tip: Simple, Glossy Text in 3 Easy Steps
Project Wrap: Wine Bottle Labels
August 2009
Mammoth Photoshop Resource Collection
Echoes – Week 2 (Aug 30, 2009)
The Awesome 960 Grid System
13 Key Elements to Mastering Photoshop – Part 3
Echoes – Week 1 (Aug 23, 2009)
Freebie: Echo Twitter Bird
13 Key Elements to Mastering Photoshop – Part 2
Freebie: Texture Pack 3 – Colours
13 Key Elements to Mastering Photoshop – Part 1
Quick Tip: Create a Simple Sunburst Element
July 2009
4 Free Texture Websites
Two Useful Design Articles
Freebie: Imperial Leaf Pattern
Develop Good Photoshop Habits
Freebie: Texture Pack 2 – Woods
9 Rocking CD Covers
Quick Tip: Make a Vector Gear in 7 Simple Steps
Freebie: Circles Brush Pack
Amazing Moiraine Damodred Painting
Quick Tip: Apply Adjustments to a Single Layer
12 Awesome Fantasy Covers on my Bookshelf
Thanks to Jay Henley Photography
Freebie: Texture Pack 1
Wenqing Yan’s “1000 Words”
10 Fabulous Rogue Illustrations
Freebie: Canada Day Vector
June 2009
Freebie: Car Vector 1
Shimmer Fey – A Painting in Four Stages
Freebie: Lord Phoenix Heraldry Vector
Echo Enduring Launched
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