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» Thursday Newsflash

I’ve really got nothing exciting or interesting at all to write in the intro here today about the news that are today…so you just have to go along and read the news:

• Yesterday over at Photoshop Insider, Andrew Rodney (aka. the Digital Dog) was the featured guest blogger and Andrew (the king of colour management) wrote a great post about getting old with Photoshop and how Photoshop and Lightroom is different and how they play together and open up for creativity.
   
• While on the topic of writing; there seems to be a good amount of buzz right now about coding and how to make a website simply. A lot of the buzz is also around doing it in Sitegrinder or similar software and of course Dreamweaver. I’m writing a blog post with my take on things tomorrow, so stay tuned
   
• How does corporate graphic design work? Well, humorous but true this graphic from Graphjam explains it pretty good
   
• Olympus together with Panasonic announced the other day that they are developing a new lens mount series, the micro four thirds. It’s going to allow for smaller and thinner dSLRs as they remove the optical viewfinder and slim the lens mount down even further. I had the chance to talk with an Olympus rep yesterday to hear more about this and it does sound really really cool. Read the press release »
   
• Apple released an upgrade to the iPhone the other day, the 2.0.1 software update. It’s available from iTunes and I haven’t seen any problems with the upgrade at all.

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» It’s Design Monday

 Today is design monday and will feature some great links for, you guessed it, design! Today will be all about design, how to do it and what to think about! Also we’ll have some tips on getting started! Should get you prepared for "Tutorial Tuesday" tomorrow!

• Smashing Magazine, today had a great article about some of the cool and breathtaking typography and typographic posters. There are indeed some really breathtaking things in there so if you want to get inspired, then that is definately an article to read!
   
• A Web Design tip that kind of lines up with the article tip above is to really think about the typography when designing! Do think about the fonts you are using in the header and text and make them suit eachother and the theme and the site in a nice way, that goes for their colours as well! It’s perhaps one of the most vital things you have in your designing and it is what your goal is!
   
• Another tip; when you are showing a design to your client, make sure that you have it filled with sample text (Lorem Ipsum will do just fine) and sample images so your client will get a feel how it is going to look for him/her! That will greatly help to sell the site and perhaps convey the feeling of the site you’ve made!
   
• When entering the realms of designing and keeping in with the latest news you should definately be reading A List Apart! It’s a great site with a ton of very helpful and in-depth articles on coding, design and the general web production!
   
• Final tip; think your design through before making it! Outline on a sheet of normal paper with a normal pencil what you want on your site and where to best fit it in. What kind of navigation are you going to have? Are you going to have any columns? Will there perhaps be a large or a small header? Basically what you need and where to put it thought through before actually desgining it. And of course, do design things that are codeable!

Look back here tomorrow for the "Tutorial Tuesday" where I’ll be putting up a lot of brand new tutorials and a few cooler announcements regarding those as well!

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