Daemon made some really good points about inconsistencies in the new CS3 package (which is in fact the biggest release of different applications under the same name in a history of suites). But there is a lot to suite than just an pretty standardized interface. Who wants another Office look a like suite? 10 programs to share same icon set, menu system and bits of functionality? I don't use anything else than Flash/Flex/texteditor these days, so I really don't understand any of the stuff Daemon rants about. :) CS3 suite is the first big thing that was released after the Adobe / Macromedia merge and stuff I've seen/read so far regarding the functionality and cross application integration is just amazing. Many products have gained improvements in interoperability with each other, But, as always... time and sleepless nights will tell. :)

Kuler is a new crayz project from Adobe (online community - slash - color picker tool), which requires Flash Player 9.0.28.0. You can share your own colors themes with other designers, and  you can download themes to use with Adobe Creative Suite 2 applications.

Today I came across this article back from 2005. Amazon.com popularized the tab navigation metaphor online. Through the years they explored multiple interface design solutions to make their growing product inventory accessible to Web users. As a result, some interesting lessons emerge when one looks at how the site’s top-level navigation has changed over the years.

Guys at Fadtastic listed our logo for Planet Actors web site in their examples section (Logo design where 1+1=3) 'nuff said. :) At least, it's nice to see it near Shaun Inman, Ping Mag, CSS Beauty and CSS Mania logos.

[photopress:SMSOglasi.gif,full,alignright]You can check out interesting read at Les tendances web du #FF017D. Happy to see our last project in examples. I guess biggest influence on us with pink colour here was massive T-Com rebranding campaign.

Btw, here is translation to English by Google - Why men would not be entitled to the Pink?! :) Check out the rest of this cool blog about #FF017D. Wicked.

Have you ever sliced up your PSD layouts and turned them in to XHTML web pages only to find that the two are not equal (column widths are not right, margins and paddings are off...). I know it can be a great pain but there is a simple but effective solution to this problem that does not require constant print-screening. In the initial state of any design the foundations are made up of a grid based system. This means that a layout is first seen through mathematical building blocks. By doing this you can precisly predict user habbits like why should the navigation be on the left, the content on the right and so on..

Before you start coding, get your first draft grid system save it in any web safe format. Next you apply that image as a background image to your document body using CSS (remember this image is here only to assit you in setting up intial xhtml layouts). And thats it, you can now continue your development and not worry about breaking the original design.