Mahmut Kavici is an exceptional turkish designer who recently published cssbased.com. Css Based is a project providing web designers a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world. cssbahcesi.com is the Turkish version.
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd et al
Blog Design Solutions by Andy Budd et al
The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams
Professional CSS-Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design by Ch. Schmidt et al
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
CSS Pocket Reference by Eric Meyer
Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm
Cascading Style Sheets by Owen Briggs et al
Last month ExpressionEngine relaunched its site with a fantastic new design made by fabulous Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain. You can read all about the design process on digital-web.com where Jesse talks about precisely. A must-read for all designers, i have to say!
I particularly like how Jesse revamped the old EE logo.
But read yourself about it:
Redesigning the ExpressionEngine Site
Tom Fadial once again announced the TXP Template Contest. First prize is a brand new Mac Mini! But even if you do not win, there are lots of other prizes to get.
The judges are:
Deadline is 27th of June 07!
Get all information on textplates.com and join. Good luck :)
David Molliere is a freelance webdesigner living in Paris. He runs his personal site david-molliere.net.
Currently he is heading the marketing effort for MODx, an open source CMS and php application framework.
David likes to cook and is quite an amateur wine buff (not only French wine!). His main hobby is digital photography, which tags along well with a taste for travelling and long weekends. He is a big reader of thrillers, a ravenous watcher of US TV shows, and goes to the movies at least twice a week.
Q. Hi David, are you an extensive shopper :)?
LOL :)
Well it depends what I am shopping for. Don’t ever get me close to a high-tech store or a wine shop or I might end up on a shopping spree, burning my credit card to shreds ;) That’s how I recently got myself a 17” MacBook Pro or a 1998 Saint Estèphe, not a reasonnable thing to buy but hey, how could I resist?
Q. You are the main marketing director of MODx. That does imply you are responsible to popularize MODx CMS. Correct?
Director might be too strong a word :P , especially if you consider that there is no rigid structure at MODx. Things are not based on status, but rather on involvement and skills.
Ryan Thrash (founder) is the one who offered me to join the team and help the marketing effort in November 2005. I had created some buzz to make MODx quite a popular CMS in France. I wrote an article about MODx for a famous french webzine about opensource software, which is among the top referrers of modxcms.com. Also, I posted a review of MODx at Webmaster-Hub, which got quite some attention. Of course, it’s easier to stand out in the French world than in the English speaking community where the competition is fierce, but it was enough to convince Ryan that I would be an asset for MODx marketing.
One very nice thing for me is
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On del.icio.us`s blog Nick Nguyen announced a new bookmark extension for Firefox. I just tested it and am completely blown away. The extension comes with a sidebar you can sort and search your del.isio.us bookmarks instantly, view tag intersections, and even modify your bookmarks. It´s dead-easy to tag a link and add it to your linklist. As the extensive sites directories of our Site Collection is managed with del.icio.us the extension comes just very, very handy.
It´s quite a while ago since Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast posted her article on TXP vs EE – but it is still a nice read.
I really like EE and considered it once for a project. It is a bit like TXP but has a wider functionallity and a better rights management system. The key question is: do you really need that for a project? If not, your clients are surely happier with TXPs administration surface.
Well go over to Andreas site and read her write-up.
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On juicystudio.com Joshue O` Connor published an highly interesting article on accessibility of various CMSs such like:
Each of those CMSs was tested by an screen reader user performing some basic tasks, as well as the same tasks being performed by a user with no Assistive Technology/Special User Agent requirements and with an average computer skill level. These tests were facilitated and observed by an experienced CFIT accessibility consultant. To me absolutely unexpected Joomla! is doing a very good job. Some problems were encountered but the testers conclude: If these problems could be addressed, we would recommend Joomla. Expression Engine as well as Textpattern lack of some accessibill key features (f. e. Title and edit boxes are not marked up well and tester found it [backend] unintuitive.
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Choosing an Accessible CMS
anf if you like, follow the discussion on the textpattern forum.
If you’ve ever used Textpattern for your CMS of choice, then likely you have found or used at least one of the plugins available from designer/developer Rob Sable of Wilshire One
Rob (under the name of Wilshire) has supplied the community with an abundance of plugins since August 2004. His plugins have included public side archive and tagging tools, as well as numerous admin side plugins like a scaled down database management tool that allows you to copy your TXP install
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I was browsing through one of my feeds today and ran across a great series of videos available at youtube. These videos showcase some of the great design spawned out of the visionary picture of ‘modern’ living in the 1950s American lifestyle.
The videos:
David Molliere is a freelance webdesigner living in Paris. He runs his personal site david-molliere.net.
Currently he is heading the marketing effort for MODx, an open source CMS and php application framework.
David likes to cook and is quite an amateur wine buff (not only French wine!). His main hobby is digital photography, which tags along well with a taste for travelling and long weekends. He is a big reader of thrillers, a ravenous watcher of US TV shows, and goes to the movies at least twice a week.
Q. David, you are member of the MODx team and have been around TXP too, translating, building the French board and part of the official online documentation called Textbook back in 2004. How important is it for you to belong to a well working OS community?
My first involvement with open source communities
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Come on and vote: What makes a ‘good’ Open Source community? Select 3 statements you regard to be most important to you. Please do not select more than 3! If you like
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