Visual Design

by hgquinn | Neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone researches human vision systems and art. With a little understanding of her Where and What vision systems, you can learn how to punch up your designs and graphics, and get a handle on elusive design problems. Read More »

by calimehtar | PNG was designed to replace GIF as the standard image format for lossless compression on the internet. It claims better compression than GIF, full alpha transparency, and gamma correction. All common browsers today support PNG in at least a limited way, and is a recommendation of the W3C.Given that IE for Windows does support PNG in all other ways other Is it time to switch? I tested out all the various claims of PNGs superiority, with mixed results. Read More »

by nileshch | The popular way of wrapping text along the irregular outline of an image is to use sliced images and float them around. If you don't want image slices, here's a clean standards-compliant alternative. Read More »

by aardvark | Because it is often necessary to reproduce the colors in identity materials when building a web page, it helps to know what to expect from the displays that will actually see the page you create as well as account for those users who may not perceive color in the same way. Read More »

by pegaweb | Put that Magic Wand away! This tutorial shows how to separate an image from its background by using Adobe Photoshop's Freeform Pen tool. Read More »

by creed | How to use software to salvage those digital pictures that — had they been old-fashioned prints — would have been thrown in a dusty old shoe box, and pushed to the back of the wardrobe. Read More »

by FDG_Tom | Send Rich Media, Streaming or Flash Email may be all the rage with Marketers and Advertisers alike. But is it as effective as all of the folks trying to sell you on it say it is? Read on for some tips concerning what you should know before you try to send Flash & other Rich Media Email. Read More »

by banrett | A low-cal bandwidth-friendly method for providing an alternative rollover state of an image used as a hyperlink, with just a few lines of CSS. Image borders will change immediately to an alternative colour on rollover. Read More »

by isaac | Try to design and build a Web site using poor images and, more often than not, you'll end up with less-than-optimal results. We can't always be lucky enough to have clients providing us with CDs Read More »

by persist1 | Background Every few weeks another article or two crops up, talking about what a pain it is to create layouts that are "friendly" at one screen resolution when your normal operating environ Read More »