Friday, April 24, 2009

A cool tool for web designers


I found this cool and very useful tool from Allan Jardine.
Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet.

Design features the following components:

* Grid - overlays a highly configurable layout grid over a web-page. Grid can be set to match any set of dimensions, allowing easy development of CSS layouts in the web-browser.
* Rule - displays rulers on a page, with all the expected features of the rulers found in a desktop design application, including guides which snap to block display elements and origin location control.
* Unit - allows measurements to be made between any two points on a web-page, giving basic information about each of the points clicked on, and drawing a line on the page for the measurement.
* Crosshair - draws a crosshair cursor on the page to assist in layout alignment. Cursor information is also presented in a tooltip.

I found it extremely useful when working on web development projects.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Newsmap


Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news; on the contrary, it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.
The algorithm created by Marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton creates an amazing mosaic of the news from all over the world.

Newsmap

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Web Trend Map 4


A cool and useful Web Trend Map. This years' map is based on the layout of Tokio Metro Map. Only 1,000 pieces will be printed.

Download here

More Info here