Design Notes Archive

5 Online Image Editors to Spark Your Imagination

Picnik - is an editor full of features, including more than a few professional effects you can apply to your images, such as vignettes, cinematic scope, focal soften (and even ...

Design Notes - Join the Revolution

If you move in certain circles on the web (namely Wordpress theming), you may have already taken a look at the latest release by Brian Gardner, called Revolution. I wanted ...

Design Notes - File Sharing Made Simple

Randa became the unknowing source for this week's Notes, when she recently wrote about being unplugged for a few days. It occurred to me that, in a sense, our entire ...

Design Notes - Create a Compliant Gallery

If you've ever needed a solution for displaying multiple images for something - be it a product demo, or a set of photos you took for a client (or your ...

Design Notes - Patterned Backgrounds

Apologies for skipping out on Design Notes last week. Terrible isn't it? Here I am trying to start a fun new segment, and I've already fouled up on the third ...

Design Notes - Inspired by Color

Years ago I had a designer friend tease that I was afraid of color. Even now I smile whenever I think about that, because in a way, she was right. ...

Design Notes - 10 Minute CSS Menus

In an ongoing effort to improve Design Adaptations, I'd like to introduce the premiere of a series called Design Notes. Published once weekly, it will highlight free software, online apps, ...