Every make a killer website mock-up? Ever start slicing/css/html(ing) that killer mock-up and once all said and done you feel something is off a bit, or something is just not lining up correctly? Check out Maki, a simple bookmarklet you drag into your browsers bookmarks area and click to activate on any webpage. Check it [...]

If you haven’t taken a serious look at Envato’s Birthday Bundle then you’re smoking something fierce. It’s $20.00 but it worth over $400.00! Easily.

Got the burnin’ for some kernin’? Check out csstypeset for a great online tool that helps you get your headlines/body/pullout quotes/etc. just right.

The Google Font API has been a welcome solution to adding new web-friendly fonts to our web-based applications and pages. Adobe and Typekit just entered the game with another set of fonts. There is one catch, however.

The best way I’ve found to learn and grow is to surround myself with people smarter than me. Something I’ve discovered is that this doesn’t alway have to mean people I know, people I work with, or people I am friends with at the moment. Thanks to Twitter, I can surround myself with a veritable [...]

So many blogs I run across have some of the nastiest screenshots. Pictures of files, programs, browsers, desktops, you name it! Here is a quick tip on how to get a nice clean screenshot without any special tools. Hopefully most of you know how to take a screenshot on a Mac ( *nods head yes* [...]

Icon sets are a great way to spruce up an existing web site design, or substitute as key art for a new initiative. That’s not all though, they can also be useful for newsletters, handouts, programs, and posters. On the heels of 40 free hand-drawn fonts, we’ve collected a set of 11 free hand-drawn and [...]

We try to provide as much coverage of relevant resources and tools through The 8BIT Network as possible. Truth be told, we love finding content that resources the Church. Such is the case with this set of 40 free hand-drawn fonts.

One of the things that I’ve learned from Jared as we’ve been working on a couple of projects is that good design fits a grid. Yes, we’ve covered a couple a grid framework here on Create – arguably the most popular being the 960 Grid System – but we’ve covered few web-based tools for helping [...]

When it comes to finding free online resources for building out various features of your site, application, or other form of media, it’s not exactly a difficult challenge. Free icons, color scheme generators, and artwork are all easy to come by. Far less frequently do I see resources for typography, so when I do, I [...]