Dawghouse Design Studio | Web Design and Graphic Design Tutorials, Inspiration and Freebies by Jan Cavan

Mobile Web Best Practices*

Jan Cavan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:50:18 +0000

Mobile Web Best Practices is a great resource for those who want to get started and learn more about the mobile Web. "Best practices" is a loaded term when it comes to creating mobile web experiences. It’s a unique context with its own challenges and opportunities. While there’s no silver bullet, this site will help you ask the right questions and help solve problems so you can start creating future-friendly web experiences.

List.js

Jan Cavan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:42:54 +0000

Do you want a 9 KB cross-browser native JavaScript that makes your plain HTML lists super flexible, searchable, sortable and filterable? Yeah! Do you also want the possibility to add, edit and remove items by dead simple templating? Hell yeah! Check out List.js

F*ck You, Pay Me

Jan Cavan — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:51:28 +0000

"We ended up not using the work", "This isn’t really what we’re looking for", etc., etc. — Are these lines familiar to you? Ever had difficulty getting a client to pay you for the work that you did? Then you will surely enjoy Mike Monteiro’s talk appropriately entitled, "F*ck You, Pay Me"

Font Dragr

Jan Cavan — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:42:53 +0000

Check out Font Dragr, a web app for testing custom fonts right on your browser just by dragging and dropping them! Plus, an additional custom feature is by dragging the Font Dragr bookmarklet onto your browser, you can test any website with any custom font!

CSS Font Stack

Jan Cavan — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:48:37 +0000

A useful resource for font stacks that you can just copy and paste.

Hey Do Me A Favor

Jan Cavan — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:43:59 +0000

Alright, so this is probably a useless resource, but I thought of just sharing it anyway. Remember this popular quote?

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

So if you’re ever angry, don’t say anything. Just send the person you’re angry at this link.

WhatFont Tool

Jan Cavan — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:53:38 +0000

Ever wanted to find out what font has been used on your favorite websites? Well, you could always of course use FireBug and look through this site’s stylesheets, but that’s too complicated. WhatFont is a tool that I’ve been using for a while now and it’s going to do just that with a single click.

Cupcake Ipsum

Jan Cavan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:10:46 +0000

Tired of the using the usual “Lorem Ipsum” for placeholder copy on your mockups? For a change, try Cupcake Ipsum, the sugar-coated “Lorem Ipsum” generator.

Pixel Hinting Vectors in Photoshop

Jan Cavan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:52:12 +0000

The very fine details in a design are very important and it’s got to be pixel-perfect! This is very useful tutorial on how to do pixel hinting in Photoshop. It walks us through taking a logo from Illustrator into Photoshop and the process of cleaning up the logo’s edges.

Logos Drawn with CSS

Jan Cavan — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:20:50 +0000

Here’s a compilation of logos made with just CSS. No Images. No JS.