Design
Steven Paul Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple Computers: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Inspiration
Graphic artists, web designers and web programmers, who inspired me in a versatile way and made my work easier by their manuals, tutorials…
CSS Zengarden a showcase for css design, initiated and supervised by Dave Shea, web designer.
Jeffrey Zeldman, web designer, author and publisher of the online magazine “A List Apart”, which discusses topics about design, content, css, develpment, web standards. It also shows examples of use. Zeldman is author of a standard book concerning web standards “Designing With Web Standards” as well. Eric Meyer, css guru and author of numerous textbooks about css, for example “Eric Meyer on CSS” or “Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide”. John Hicks graphics, web and icon designer. squidfingers, graphics designer/programmer, offers a multitude of very interesting background patterns for download. Dan Cederholm, author of “Web Standards Solutions”.
Jakob Nielsen, expert for usability and web design, seems to be the right address to learn more about usability of websites.
Web Standards Development
Of course the finder of the internet has to be mentioned at this place: Tim Berners-Lee, who also is director of the World Wide Web Consortium
Useful things for the Mac
Some nice tools make dayly work tremendously easy, so for example xSope by ARTIS Software, which is not only a ruler, but also contains a crosshair and other practical applications. Better Zip by MacItBetter, which compresses and extracts file archives comfortable and quick.
Topic: Creativity
Creativity can be exercised. The book “Creative Advertising” by Mario Pricken could give me some good ideas about different creativity techniques.
