Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, of course.

There is a thin line between design and development, and as we move into a new decade, this line is becoming extremely blurry. Is it enough to draw beautiful mock ups in Photoshop? Maybe 5 years ago. These days, the average internet user requires more. All beauty, with no substance, gets boring after a while. If your only goal is to impress a community of fellow designers with your flashy designs, you’ll find yourself quickly beneath the tide. 2011 is not about beauty, it’s about function. The trends for this new year and emerging decade are responsive design, constant connection and virtual reality.

Remember the days of the Commodore computer? Your word processor had one font family, with an italic and a boldface, if you were lucky. Designing a contrasting header to a computer-generated document required scissors and tape.

Recently, for one of my articles on StageWebView, a reader has commented that he gets an error while calling a stage object through a preperationComplete event. I must say that while preparing the article, I never thought about that kind of a scenario. This blog entry is to explain how to sort this issue out.

In addition to the currently embedded brushes in Photoshop, you can easily increase your Photoshop brushes library by importing new brushes as ABR format. Although the benefit of having large number of brushes loaded in Photoshop may cause some slowness to load brushes especially when it is in high quality, it is good to load on the brushes you need and replace the unused brushes.

We would all agree that content is the most important aspect of any website. And in most cases content is made up of type. So, as a web designer, it makes sense to have a strong understanding of typography. With that in mind, we rounded up some free ebooks that should help you strengthen your typography skills.

 A Guide Style Builder tool has been released on the Adobe Developer Connection.  The Style Builder application is a standalone GUI tool to create style sheets for LiveCycle ES2 Guides. This simple AIR application makes it dead simple for anyone to create their own custom Guide compatible CSS that can then be compiled to a SWC and referenced by Guide Builder.

WebAppers에 "Rendering Text with Javascript, Canvas and VML" 라는 포스팅이 눈에 띄었습니다. David Chester가 만든 typeface.js 라는 자바스크립트 라이브러리에 대한 포스팅이었습니다. 기사 내용을 보시면 아시겠지만 이 라이브러리는 html로 입력한 text를 Canvas태그와 VML을 이용해서 다시 랜더링해서 지정한 폰트로 보여주는 역할을 하고 있습니다. 

Web Designing tools are very handy and useful, if one can use the proper tool at a proper place where it is required. Sometimes, it is difficult for a designer to opt for the best tool to use which really suits his/her needs.

WordPress developer and all-around web geek Joost de Valk has just graced the Internet with a highly useful infographic.For a medium that leans toward the amusing, infographics can occasionally be enlightening or even helpful for later reference.This one serves as a sort of “cheat sheet for how your blog works” and takes the reader through the basics of a normal WordPress theme.