Minimal Websites Of The Month: November 2008
tastynectar.com
I’ve always been a sucker for the wood grain background texture. This one is nice than most in use. There is also some great typography going on at . A great design overall.
MALO – CSS Framework
I came across the this week and decided to check it out. MALO is a super light framework, weighing in at only 8 lines of CSS! Obviously, you are probably going to want to add some custom styles there but lightweight none the same.
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Stripe Generator 2.0
is another handy web 2.0 tool that is free to use. And it does what? Yep, you guessed it, Stripe Generator allows you to quickly create a striped background for use on your website. Choose from multiple stripe sizes, colors, background styles, shadows, and stripe orientations. Another little tool to help save you some time and create some nice backgrounds.
csstypeset.com – Letterpress For The Digital Age
is, in their own words, a letterpress for the digital age. It’s also a great way to preview and test type styles for your web design projects. First, Paste in a sentence or a block of text in the left window. Next, using their WYSIWIG controls, choose your font face, font size, color, etc… Once you are happy with the results, it outputs the css code you need for your style sheet in the right window. Handy little tool for setting your type online.
Cardeo Standard Free Website Template
The Cardeo Standard CSS website template is the second in a series of free templates that are based on my WordPress themes. I made a few changes to the layout to make it better suited for a static website, in comparison to a the WordPress theme. I’m going to call this version 1.1 of the layout due to the changes. Cardeo Standard is a minimal website template inspired from Swiss graphic design.
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ASCII Character Codes Cheat Sheet
Ever wonder how people make some of the special type characters you see online like: ™ ® » © Ü ? It’s really quite easy…
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The Elements Of Typographic Style Applied To The Web
My co-worker passed on this website to me yesterday. Haven’t had a chance to review it in depth but looks like an amazing resource for type online. It looks to be inspired by Robert Bringhurst’s book 
Five Second Test
The is a simple usability test that helps you measure the effectiveness of your user interfaces. There are three tests you can setup for users to test the usability of your website. It’s a nice little tool that is also free to use.
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Twitter Grader
is a cool little tool from the good people at . Twitter Grader gives you a grade based on the power of your twitter profile. I got a 74 – Not bad, but I guess I need more followers.
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