“Publishing a webcomic is simple, right? Set up a website and post webcomics via FTP, and readers come to said website to read said webcomics? Well, yes… and no. In a world of too many webcomics to count, getting a webcomic in front of as many potential readers as possible is a good strategy for building its audience. As the Internet evolves, so do the various methods to ’syndicate’ webcomics — creators and publishers are finding new ways for readers to follow a webcomic without having to visit the actual webcomic’s website.”

“Color communicates and it sells everything from products and services to ideas and environments. This helps explain why color forecasting has become such a vital process for so many organizations and industries. In normal times, color trends are evolutionary, changing gradually and subtly in step with cultural, social, economic and technological developments. But these are not normal times and, according to the color experts, the stresses that beset our society are having a rather direct influence on the direction of the color palette.”

“How to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small… Ever been in line at the grocery store, sitting in a meeting, refinancing your mortgage, programming your VCR, waiting on hold, choosing an HMO — and thought to yourself: ‘There must be a better way to do this!?’ This book challenges us to stop accepting the status quo and, in the words of Robert F. Kennedy, ‘to dream of things that never were and ask ‘why not?””

“Digital Web: ‘Accessibility’ is now part of the Web development community’s lingua franca. However, it’s often used as shorthand to mean making a site function for blind people. How would you define it, in the Web development context? Joe Clark: I use the same definition of accessibility everywhere: Accommodating features a person cannot change or cannot change easily.”

“Writings about design and culture” by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, Rick Poynor.

“Droplets: Two or more droplets caught in the act of merging, usually symbolic of convergence or union: The Cingular logo is a wonderful example. The effect can also be used to express a technical or scientific association. Sometimes these shapes are flat, but other designs have highlights or shadows that give the impression of dimension.”

“Writings about design and culture” by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, Rick Poynor.

“For a hot new thing, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) sure is slow off the blocks. First proposed in 1994, first implemented in browsers in 1996, CSS is perennially touted as the successor to conventional HTML-based Web coding. Its ability to use style sheets to control typography and layout throughout a Web site always seemed to make CSS the most efficient, designer-friendly, forward-looking option. And yet myths persist about CSS — myths that discourage Web designers from getting to grips with the language. So what’s all the fuss about?”

“Although the eyes are a key feature of facial portraits, compositional rules for the placement of the eyes relative to the frame seem to be lacking. Two hypotheses were evaluated for a relation between eye position and the portrait frame. One was that the pair of eyes might be placed symmetrically in portraits where both eyes are visible. This center of facial symmetry is often discussed in art analysis and should be an explicit primitive in portrait composition. The alternative hypothesis of a consistent positioning of one eye relative to the center of the portrait is not mentioned in art texts.”