Pagination

I was thinking which way should pagination go? In most sites it works like a book so you start on the page one and arrow right to the next page to ad infinitum. Whist this makes sense for sites like google or a shopping site where you expect to land on page 1 and then "turn over" to page 2 for news and blog sites should we not be going the other way? If I am reading the most recent story then surely I need to "turn the page" back to see older stories.

Illustrative Maps

After a lovely cycle to Columbia Road on the weekend I came across these lovely illustrative maps from Herb Lester

They are really nicely done and also very cheap!
Buy at Herb Lester
or Caught by the River

Orange Ad

A really cute ad for Orange with a nice twist at the end of the advert.
Director: Paul Hunter. Production company: Wanda Paris.

Coco Chanel Interview

Don't know what she is saying but it is Coco Chanel in her own words and she is amazing!

Bing overtakes yahoo search

A while ago I saw the film "Source Code" and while it was an OK film what amused me was a reviewer saying that the most unbelievable thing in the film was that someone was using the search engine Bing. However news is that Bing search engine has now overtaken Yahoo search engine.

Whilst this may not be saying much it is interesting that  Bing gained 3.1% of market share while Yahoo lost 1.5% and Google lost 0.7%. Google still has the lion's share of 65 percent share however!

The Bing interface is actually quite nice and has some amazing images.  The problem is google is just too integrated into me now to ever think of being unfaithful

Bing

Let it Snow

New Christmassy Easter Egg from Google. Type in Let it snow in google and watch little snow flakes fall down the screen. Eventually the whole screen gets covered in snow but don't worry, there is a quick defrost button where the search should be or just draw a pretty pattern with your mouse.

Crazy Wall Art

This is fantastic wall art by Dan Witz. Funny and a bit scary I love it!

Also comes as a goat and the tasmanian devil.

No more time

For some reason, the powers that be, have decided to make the HTML5 <time> element tag obsolete. Instead now we should use <data>. I really don't understand the reasoning behind this and also from other blogs nobody seems to think this is a good idea.
Hopefully, after all the backlash the time element will get reinstated by Ian Hickson

What's your number

The world population is expected to reach 7 billion in the next few weeks and the BBC have developed this tool to find out where you fit into that. By filling out your date of birth you can see what number you were when born from people alive and from all time

7 billion people and you: What's your number?

Thanks, Steve

After the sad news of Steve Jobs passing on the 5 October I found this very touching design named just "Thanks, Steve".

The logo was created as a tribute by Jonathan Mak Long, a 19-year-old designer living in Hong Kong where it incorporates Jobs' silhouette into the bite of the Apple logo.

Free HTML5 E Book

Dive into HTML5

Get your hands on a free e-book by Mark Pilgrim (the print version costs $17.72)

"Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards."

Rainbow Dividers in Css3

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A very retro rainbow divider from Chris Heilmann and Lea Verou

Rainbow divider

Draw a Stickman

A really simple and very cute site that interacts with you. As you draw your little stickman he finds challenges for you to help him along. Very creative and even better it is not done in flash but JS!

Draw a Stickman

Subtle Patterns

Subtle Patterns is a very nice collection of 80 design patterns for free use. It is a nice place to browse some nice background patterns and then download individually or altogether.

Very nice 3D carousel

The Slicebox carousel is really very lovely when viewed in chrome or safari, having lovely 3d effects and importantly working like a normal carousel when in other browsers.

CSS1K

Back in the day we had css zen garden which demonstrated what could be done with css and the same html.

There is now CSS1k, which is getting people to demonstrate what is possible with just 1K of CSS. Some entries are showing great uses of CSS3 and some are really quite cool, such as #bbubles and #facetime.

Very funny Ad

Love this advert, maybe something to try out in the office

World Map Wall Art

I love this world map wall art that you can buy from etsy



When you purchase it you get 6 digital files that you then go and print yourself.

View on Etsy

image to css

img to css
Here is a site that I have just found that converts an image to html and css. It is an interesting concept but not one I think I would necessarily use as there is so much extra code and really I don't think using images in sites in the right place is a problem. However I am impressed with how it works

below is an example of the FF logo in code