Deisgning for 2.0

Here are some interesting articles, guides and tutorials I've come across.

Web 2.0 design guides:
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm
http://f6design.com/journal/2006/10/21/the-visual-design-of-web-20

Photoshop tutorials:
http://www.photoshoplab.com/web20-design-kit.html
http://www.photoshoplab.com/web-20-design-kit-part-2.html
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/logos.cfm
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/3d_effects.cfm

Some interesting web2.0 sites and services:
http://www.openomy.com/
http://www.zimbra.com/
http://www.stripegenerator.com
http://www.dropsend.com/
http://cooltext.com/
http://www.trackslife.com/
http://www.tamadaa.com/
http://feedrinse.com/

A nice reference site:
http://thesis.veracon.net/

My JavaScript Development

Well, I've been playing with the Mootools library a bit now. I have to admit that before mootools, javascript was a little scary to me. I have successfully created about three business applications using RPC techniques - but what a hack. Although XML is such a universal wonder, its a bit of a chore to work with sometimes.

With mootools, it all gets better. I believe the Mad 4 Milk guys have really made a well designed package. Now with the event of JSON, Javascript RPC's become a brease.

I've traditionally used ASP-VBScript as my server side language; Now maybe I haven't googled hard enough, but it's impossible to get hold of a VBScript JSON interpreter (and Im too lazy to do the work myself). So my new development platform now consists of JSP, Javascript and faithfull MooTools.

I thought I'd start a page of Javascript 'experiments' mostly using the mootools library. Every now and then I get that 'I wonder how to do that' thought,.. so I thought I'd share any examples I happen to make. Hope it helps someone someday,...

http://www.cullen.co.za/pat/javascript/index.html