Design

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Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the Drupal community surrounding the questions of "Is Drupal for developers only?" and "How we can get more designers involved?". It's a passionate subject for many who want to see further growth in the community and wider acceptance from both developers and designers to the end-users.  read more »

This is the best tutorial video i've seen on using the pen tool in Photoshop so thought i'll share it.

Mega menus are a growing trend in web design (see Mega Menus: The Next Web Design Trend from Sitepoint). For sites that involve a lot of pages and/or products, a mega menu may be able to improve navigation and usability. In this post we’ll look at 25 examples of mega menus in action.

Many of those featured in this post are from e-commerce websites. Mega menus are common on e-commerce sites because they typically include a lot of categories of different products, and so mega menus can be very useful for visitors. They are also a possibility for other large websites where fewer clicks can be used to get to a specific page with a mega menu.

Steven Snell - Design Mag

I came across this video produced by Zack Arias (photographer) and it was refreshing to hear it from someone genuine and sincere about his own experience struggling to be creative (at times). Something we all have felt before and it never really leaves you behind. But as long as you remember, that all great artists and inventors were never once 'great' but through learning, practice, time and perseverance they have mastered their art, as Zack would say towards the end.

Or it this just rubbish and some lucky few are just gifted? Either way, i really don't care but it's reassuring to hear it from Zack. It makes me more focus on things and to just not takes things too seriously and enjoy what you do.

Smart Look is a new free online service which help to turn all the document-download links on your site into browser-viewable documents. It works for PDFs, slideshows, or regular text documents. You just insert some code onto your site, and it does the rest. Instead of an embedded viewer, it launches a new overlay window where you can see the document in all of its glory, search it, page through it, and even print it.

Check out the sample site: ismartlook.com

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Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances.