Kyle Wiebers

Welcome to my first weekly blend. This is going to be a consistent weekly post every sunday night reviewing the blog posts/web musings that have peeked my interest throughout the week.

The Blend

This week was interesting between the release of Google Wave and lots of different web design blogs with quality posts.  I’d categorize this blend as 2 parts inspiration, 1 part theory, 1 part tutorial, and 2 parts fun.  I’ll go into the detail of this concoction below.

Inspiration

Absolut Vodka consistently has well designed ads with a consistent message.  Over at amog they have a great post that showcases different Absolut ads over time. http://bit.ly/sf3G8

Here's an example of one of the Absolut ads

WebDesignDev is a great blog that I just started to subscribe to with lots of inspirational posts.  This past week they had a great post which listed 26 Excellant Dark Website Designs.  If you are interested in different types of designs and how color influences design, this post is a must read.  http://bit.ly/3lm0ZR

Here's an example of one of the dark websites

Theory

Inspect Element is another blog I recently subscribed to that has some excellant content.  Inspect Element mostly focuses on theory and design principles of the web.  They recently started part 4 of a 4 part series – The Principles of Good Web Design: Content.  Throughout this series, Inspect Element has applied different design concepts to the web in an easy to digest way.  This is a must read for people who are just getting into web design (like me).  http://bit.ly/3ljlW5

Inspect Element

Tutorial

TutorialZine recently published a tutorial on how to make a slick content slider using jQuery. This is a great intro for developers looking to get into jQuery and the possibilities of this amazing framework.  .  http://bit.ly/2wA5vP

Making a Slick Content Slider With jQuery

Fun

There were plenty of fun things out on the web this week.  A lot of talk was over Google Wave which went into closed beta.  I unfortunately did not receive a invite so I’m unable to give a first hand review, but I have the next best thing – Lifehacker.  Lifehacker did a detailed overview of Google Wave which is worth a read if you are interested in the next generation of collaborative web  apps.  http://bit.ly/Nozco

Lifehacker - Google Wave

The final part of fun was an entertaining workflow diagram of whether or not you can be a web designer from Six Revisions.

Can You Be a Web Designer?

Thus concludes the Weekly Blend for this past week.  Let me know what you think in the comments or what you want to see for next week.