We all know and use Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask. But here's a list of 100 more that add their own unique slants to organizing the Web for you. You might find one or a few that improve your search life.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines.php
The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it's a big spurting penis? Here's the ones that were approved.
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http://www.b3ta.com/features/phalliclogoawards
Finding freeware apps that don’t end up just sitting on your hard drive can get pretty hard. This list is a collection of some essential freeware apps for OS X that I can honestly say I would pay for if they weren’t already free. If you’re a new Mac user and/or you haven’t tried these apps yet, I highly suggest you give each of them a spin.
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http://jakejarvis.com/archives/2007/01/27/10-free-apps-every-mac-user-should-have
A Digg-like site where people submit stories about companies acting in ways that can be considered “good” or “bad.” Other users then vote on the goodness or badness of those actions, add comments, etc. An overall “goodness” score, ranging from “severe” on the negative end to “pioneer” on the positive end is calculated and displayed.
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http://www.dotherightthing.com
Ryan Hicks answers Veerle's questions about designing Adobe's new icon set, the scope of which has expanded enormously since their acquistion of Macromedia.
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http://www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2007/01/adobe_cs3_icons.html
One can discuss whether numerous CSS-galleries challenge our creativity, however they can serve as a quite nice source for inspiration. The galleries of CSS-based designs showcase exemplary design practices, solutions, ideas and templates. Once you have no idea what you should do next with your web-site, it’s worth taking a look at some beautiful works.
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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/12/21/creme-de-la-creme-of-css-list-of-css-galleries
Sometimes we just don’t know what color to use. Sometimes we have no idea which colors to combine in order to create a beautiful color palette which would attract the visitors of our web-sites. That’s why we’ve decided to create some kind of visual reference cards or cheat sheets for the most popular colors.
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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/12/29/css-based-tables-modern-solutions
If you are a graphic designer, you probably know that textures and background images are essential for every project which is related to graphics or design. But where to search for quality images if you can’t find anything usable on your PC?
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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/02/where-can-i-find-textures-and-background-images
As a web-developer you don’t have to re-invent the wheel all the time. If it just has to work, and has to be valid, and has to have a nice, visually appealing design hierarchy, you just can use css-techniques developed in the web-dev-community over the last few years. If you take a look around, you’ll find many templates, which include basic (X)HTML/CSS-markup.
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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/12/free-css-layouts-and-templates
Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool for designing various visual elements one can use for web-pages. However, sometimes it’s important to know what to do in order to achieve some effects. In such cases, step-by-step tutorials can provide help and save a lot of time you would have to spend on finding a solution otherwise. Let’s take a look at some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials we’ve found in the Web so far.
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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/12/hand-picked-photoshop-tutorials
Every designer faces a choice at some point in their career — to manage or not to manage. Erin Malone helps you walk through the questions you need to make that choice.
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http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/so-you-think-you
Using this poem generator you can easily make the most beautiful love or Valentine poems.
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http://www.dotsphinx.com/love.en/poems
The term web standards can mean different things to different people. For some, it is 'table-free sites', for others it is 'using valid code'. However, web standards are much broader than that. A site built to web standards should adhere to standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, DOM, MathML, SVG etc) and pursue best practices (valid code, accessible code, semantically correct code, user-friendly URLs etc).
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http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.htm
So you think you know all about whitespace. You may be surprised. Mark Boulton, type expert to the stars, shows how micro and macro whitespace push brands upscale (or down) and enhance legibility in print and online.
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http://www.alistapart.com/articles/whitespace
