After many design iterations, bugs, mockups and mucho debate in our Basecamp, CSS3.gr is finally here.
An idea of Yiannis Konstantakopoulos, amassing 5 people willing to explain Greece why standards is the one way to (online) enlightenment.
I was blessed (and cursed) with the design of it, took me ages, but I think it went pretty well overall. There are still some bugs here and there, some we know, some we know not, so drop us a line and tell us what doesn’t work for you.
We will not pretend we’re experts, we’re just learning just like everyone else. We’re just vocal about what we learn.
For all the non-greek speaking friends out there, sorry, the site is Greek-only. It was about time I got the chance to express myself in my mother tongue – as much as I despise some of its limitations.
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Gmail Labs release almost daily more and more useful stuff that can make your Gmail friendlier and more usable.
Here’s what I use (and not):
- Quick Links – sounds like a cool idea, but I never really got around to actually use it. It’s there, though.
- Superstars – another gimmick I don’t usually use, since I mostly use labels to organize stuff. Still, looks cool.
- Mouse Gestures – would be cool, in theory, but I never let my e-mail pile up so it’s usually obsolete for my way of using Gmail.
- Signature Tweaks – of course. One of my biggest pet peeves of Gmail is the way that puts my signature at the bottom.
- Right-side Chat – a recent addition. I love the fact that in this way, chat (aka fun) is separated from work (aka e-mail), plus, it’s perfect for the 24 inches I work on, both at work and at home.
- Forgotten Attachment Detector – not too sure I’ll ever use it, but it’s useful to be on anyway.
- Mark as Read Button – yay! At last! Marking as read with a single click.
My pet peeve? Some of them, like Mark as Read button and Forgotten Attachment Detector, could be normal features, since they enhance usability too much.
Do you use Gmail for your e-mail needs? Which Gmail Labs gimmicks do you use?
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Aren’t you like, totally tired from all those web design resources and web design resources repositories and web design resources repositories lists you see every day floating around the interwebs?
I get stressed! No joking.
I referred to that in Twitter the other day. I’m really tired of all these sites sporting the latest JQuery plugin or the coolest Photoshop technique, while usually all of them are sporting the same thing at any day, just aggregating themselves and doing link favours.
So tiring. So uncreative. So uninspiring. Few are different – I admire the quality content of Smashing Magazine, of Nettuts and recently, the Usability Post. But most of them are same ole same.
It seems that Jeffrey Zeldman and the rest of the ALA crew, the absolute resource for everything web design during the last few years, have felt that way too. He (and with him, all of us) observe the web design blogging field change from a tight, committed community to an information-hungry chaotic crowd, that always searches for the latest tutorial to dabble upon. So he announced change.
And we surely need change, my friends. In this information overloaded era, change is the key to progress.
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