The are plenty of tutorials on the web doing this very same thing. But I thought I would put up my basic method for creating a glassy reflective button. It is a simple method and works for quickly creating small buttons for the web. This is done in Illustrator CS2 but any vector application could be used with this method [read more...]

For a magazine that is known for it's slickness, the Wired website is rather nasty looking. Wired must be a company, that although they represent technology, put their money in print. Must be where the bucks are for them. As of today, December 13, 2007, the site is bad. Perhaps they will take a look at it and build something more web 2.0. It really lacks organization, too. It needs a refresh.

Programmers have made use of patterns for a long time. Patterns provide a way to tackle a problem that has been solved before. They provide a framework for problem solving. Now web designers can utilize that same workflow theory as explained in The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition) by Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay and Jason I. Hong. This book goes a long way towards providing designers with a reference for solving web design problems and a process tool for discovering web site useabilty solutions. [read more...]