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ac_cobra_v8_rearDrawing inspiration away from the digital medium and into the field of car design, this time focusing on the Mercedes Gullwing; Rolls Royce Silver Ghost and the AC Shelby Cobra, all iconic and beautifully designed cars that are outstanding to view and designed for enjoyment.

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website-launch-checklistBox UK are developing a Website Checklist that could be very useful. Launching a website is always a nervous time and hopefully this can take some of the stress out of it, its also available to download as a PDF.

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web-design-conventionsWeb conventions can be used to improve the user experience of your web pages. The learned behavior of users surfing many websites web-wide has created some web design conventions that we can take advantage of in our page designs, easing the viewers journey with a sense of familiarity.

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themeslicelargeThemeslice.com has slashed its prices for a PSD to WordPress Theme service. You can now get your mock up sliced into a WordPress Theme for £320 and its great quality, I know as I’m one of the coders.

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Great demonstration and tutorial on how to draw eyes in Illustrator:

p_iphoneyscreenshotsmallTest your design on iPhone without using an iPhone. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it’s free.

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Ubiquity is a new Firefox extension that could change the way we communicate with the web:


Reebok teaching us a thing or two about Marketing and branding with the Terry Tate Office Linebacker Ads:

wordpress-27-upgrade1WordPress 2.7.1, the first 2.7 maintenance release, is now available, it fixes 68 tickets and I cant see any major issues which shows the quality of the latest WordPress incarnation.

The big news of course is that if you’ve already upgraded to WordPress 2.7 then upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1 is a easy as this is the first automatic updated. You can automatically upgrade from 2.7 to 2.7.1 via the Tools->Upgrade menu.

Matrix Style Flip book pointed out by T.Magic, check it out, must have taken hours: