Very nice approach to get vis­i­tors to prove that they are actual humans and not (spam)robots. A jQuery captcha approach that asks the vis­i­tor to slide/unlock an ele­ment like on the iPhone.

Much bet­ter that the nor­mal captcha meth­ods where users have to type in let­ter com­bi­na­tions that are so hard to read that I find my self  press­ing the “can’t read the let­ters above” but­ton a lot.

more info@http://www.aboone.com/javascript-iphone-lock-slider-with-jquery

Usability · usability onder · usable forms

The Google Font API helps you add web fonts to any web page.

Ben­e­fits of the Google Font API include:

• A choice of high qual­ity open source fonts.
• Works in most browsers.
• Extremely easy to use.

url: http://code.google.com/intl/ja/apis/webfonts/

To give devel­op­ers a choice of high-quality fonts when using the Font API, we have cre­ated the Google Font Direc­tory. There you can browse our cat­a­log of avail­able fonts, learn about the font design­ers who cre­ated them, and copy the code required to use them on your web page.

The fonts in the direc­tory are all released under open source licenses; you can use them on any non-commercial or com­mer­cial project.

demo: http://code.google.com/webfonts

font embedding

Just can’t stop post­ing things like these — they are just sim­ply amaz­ing — the new CS5 suite is really some­thing else it not just Cs4 with a new num­ber but Adobe really lis­tened and have imple­mented many fea­tures that the users have been ask­ing for so long!

Check out this movie of Terry White’s top5 fea­tures of Inde­sign Cs5 :

cs5 · Indesign · mini bridge · span · split

After the great new fea­tures of Pho­to­shop Cs5 — here are some awe­some new fea­tures of Illus­tra­tor Cs5 !! Espe­cially this Per­spec­tive tool is really some­thing — how easy is it to make a 3d pre­sen­ta­tion now..wonderfull! Also the new shape tool is really some­thing most have been wait­ing for.. really great!

cs5 · Illustrator

Very nice and impressive!

games · pixels

All the pre­view movies you’ve seen before are really true.. have been work­ing with Pho­to­shop CS5 and it is sooo much bet­ter than CS4 but this movie is really some­thing you want to see ! AWESOME!

Down­load that trial or order the suite (*ouch*) and jump in !

awesome · cs5 · design · edge detection · Photoshop CS5

Great film @

To see this documentary/film in HD go to the Vimeo web­site.

advertising · murals

Great arti­cle on Smash­ing Mag­a­zine about the rec­og­niz­able things we web developers/designers  always come across when deal­ing with clients. The usual “make my logo big­ger” phrase is well one heard quite often — Smash­ing Mag­a­zine includes an nice chart that illus­trates the size of the logo and what it says about the company.

Sum­mary:
“At the end of the day you are at the mercy of the client, and you need to meet all of their require­ments. But you also have to rec­og­nize your value and be able to demon­strate it through exam­ples, research and log­i­cal argu­ments. Be respon­sive: ask a lot of ques­tions in order to under­stand the client’s moti­va­tion. I endorse client edu­ca­tion, but not to the point of los­ing the client and project. Remem­ber that your client is a resource to you, and good com­mu­ni­ca­tion will enable both of you to com­plete the project in time to watch the men’s figure-skating competition.”

Web­site: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/23/educating-your-client-on-web-development-successfully/

clients · logo · webdesign · webdevelopment

The way to Comic Sans is quite curi­ous… Would have expected it not to actu­ally be there — or more some­thing like “are you insen­si­tive to design or things that look nice? or are you mak­ing a adver­tise­ment for a Pizza place” -> Comic Sans

url : http://inspirationlab.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/soyouneedatypeface.jpg

fonts · nice · typeface · Typography

HTML5 Fea­tures you Should be Using Right Now

Just watched this expla­na­tion of Jef­frey Way on Tutsplus.com about how you can imple­ment html5 in your code right now — very inter­est­ing and I’ve made my html5 snip­pet for in textmate/e-texteditor.

On that same sub­ject the Html5 web­site pre­sen­ta­tion is also very interesting.

Web­sites:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/quick-tip-html5-features-you-should-be-using-right-now/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nettuts+%28NETTUTS%29

http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1

html5 · html5shiv