Web and Graphic Design HQ

Here’s a simple tip for improving the look of your desktop publishing: use “invisible grids” in your alignment for a good visual presentation.
Here’s a small image of a typical graphic layout that hasn’t really had much care put into it:

As you can see, the elements just sit on the page, nearly randomly. Nothing is really […]

A great useful online file sending tool is totally FREE to use, and it’s called You Send It — www.yousendit.com.

There are probably paid services that have better (even YouSendIt has high-powered paid plans) — but we use this service all the time and love it!
We use this service to send files up to 100Mb in […]

Wikipedia is the place!
Browsing through the content of this site, you’ll find lots of photo links. Many of the photos that have been uploaded are put into the public domain, or given a free-to-use licence. And some of these images are very high resolution, so they’re great for printing needs.
One to keep in your resource […]

We have lots of royalty free stock sites we go to… here are two of my favorites, and they both contain bucketloads of free stock photography images:

Stock.Xchng: www.sxc.hu — billed as “the leading free stock photography website”
morgueFile: www.morguefile.com — contains high resolution digital free stock photography for either corporate or public use.

Unlike traditional stock photo […]

Need to do something with your display just once? Don’t want to add it to your CSS file?
Use in-line CSS instead.
Here’s a code example:
<p style=”font-size: 150%; color:#cc0000;”>Paragraph text goes here</p>
This makes the text 150% of regular size and red, in this example code as shown above.
Lots of CSS rules can be used “inline” instead of […]

When it comes to web layout, there’s still a fair bit of argument over minimum layout standards: designing your website to meet the needs of the least technically enabled visitor you’re likely to get.
I was listening to an expert today who has recently started designing for a minimum 1024 pixel screen width. To make that […]

One very handy resource we use regularly to download free fonts is DaFont.com — last time I looked there were over 7,300 fonts on the website for download.
You can always see the latest fonts, but even better, there are 70 categories of fonts:

Fancy: Cartoon, Comic, Groovy, Old School, Curly, Western, Eroded, Distorted, Destroy, Horror, Fire, […]