Every web designer and web development team craves great icons, sometimes we create our own and sometimes we take inspiration from the many icon source websites out there on the web… we found this one to beexceptionally helpful with many free resources
GazoPa (image search engine for similar images) is in beta. If you ever used Google’s Similar Image Search, you’ll notice that GazoPa goes a few steps further by offering some great tools like direct image upload, url link, flickr search and even the option to draw your own shape/image to find similar images. I’m sure this will fast become a favorite with designers and web designers around the world! GazoPa is fast, accurate and provides some great flexibility in the search.
Here’s how it can be used for art directors or web designers… so you found an image at random for a pitch, the client loved it, but you needed it a few different ways or you just couldn’t remember where you found it? Well, with the new upload feature on GazoPa, you’ll be able to upload that image, and the search engine will instantly find thousands of variations of an image just like that one based on shape, color, design and pattern.
Turn to the online crowd to garner feedback for your web design work. And as we all know, turning to an online audience of honest constructive criticism can often times be an exercise in futility and abuse. Well that is changing!
Check out Concept Feedback which offers a location for designers to submit their work for review by the community of participating creatives. This reciprocal system works based on a number of checks and balances to keep things both fair and constructive, for all those who are putting their design work out there.
By requiring reviewers to maintain a ratio of feedback offered to concepts submitted for critique, they make sure that everyone is actively participating and not just leeching off the community for free advice without giving any back. Also, by rewarding each reviewer reputation points that are taken away for leaving negative feedback, they ensure that people are actually being constructive in their comments. Reinforcing the if you don’t have anything nice to say (or in this case, constructive), don’t say anything at all rule, in a way, they keepcreative feedback for web design work helpful not harsh and unwelcoming.
We’ve heard of HTML 5 before, but this video (45 minutes) says a lot about it. A game changer for modern browsers – the newest video done by the people at Google Developers. For any web designer, web developer or digital strategist this video is a must-watch. Keeping up with the changes that open source has delivered when it scaled into the consumer market (one of my favorites), the increasing number of developers contributing to the open source market and millions of open source users increasing over time.
Javascript, over the last 2 years has improved 100X in speed and power improvement….and we are just on the brink of what can be done with faster javascript. I am a huge fan of Adobe Flash, and have been using and creating since version 3.5, my love for flash will never die and it’s power will never fall, but HTML 5 proves some powerful browser intrinsic features that web designers need to know about that are flash-like.Flash is still the most powerful tool for rich internet applications, motion design, and high powered interactivity—But HTML 5 with the advances in javascript can do a lot more now!
HTML 4 (in the late 90′s) was a different king of HTML version, and we are in a much different point now with AJAX being adopted in 2005, javascript advances, advanced CSS social media GPS needs, video being much more available, and basic needs of images now a native part of HTML 5. Web design and web development are once again getting closer…
Some Highlights:
SVG (scaleable vector graphics)
Canvas API
Video
Classify new tags like HEADER, FOOTER, ARTICLE great for search engines
Geolocation
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