Strange Fruits I was having a "web designers using Linkedin to promote themselves rather than a website portfolio, what fun is that?" exchange on Twitter last week, and now I stumble upon Strange Fruits at Design is Kinky this week. Have you noticed how people don't really highlight web design any more? Seems the interest is in the work rather than the site itself these days. It ... Read full entry

Portfolios That Accomplish Goals Kyle Meyer critiques some design portfolios, and offers a few pointers for making great work really stand out. Last, but not least, Proud Creative. They're damn proud of their work, how do I know? Because the rest of the portfolio is as minimal as possible. The fixed position left column is great for keeping contact and other information in view while browsing the portfolio. Not ... Read full entry

Dmitry Utkin makes great use of WordPress and a three column theme layout, and the result is Design You Trust™. Design You Trust™ is a daily design magazine, blog and small community, full of new design trends, news and events, great design portfolios, young design bloods, design articles, photography and hand-picked design stuff from all over the globe. Those interested in seeing more design blogs should check out the growing ... Read full entry

Creating The Perfect Portfolio Or how to make your online portfolio stand out from the other two thousand it is competing for attention with. People with not much to do may enjoy exploring a portfolio and clicking on hard to find links to see tiny thumbnails of your work, but a busy potential employer will not. Make your portfolio fast, accessible and simple. If you want to show your interactive creativity, ... Read full entry

Qube Konstrukt's Consort. As seen at Lost At E Minor. ...it was with real excitement that I recently browsed their first self-published book - Consort - a portfolio of sorts that displays excerpts of work from their lengthening catalog of finely executed projects. British designer John Walsh also recently published his portfolio in book format.

The Hobbit Goes Hollywood: Peter Jackson will act as executive producer in the upcoming production of the movie version of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic book, The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins is finally progressing on his most fraught journey - landing a leading role on the big screen. After three years of legal wrangling and public sniping, director Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have ... Read full entry

Web Directions North is on from 30 to 31 January 2008 in Vancouver, Canada, and Jeffrey Zeldman will deliver the opening key note speech. The WD team have also compiled an executive summary of the conference, should your boss need to be "convinced" your attendance is worthwhile! Why Accessibility? Because It's Our Job! "We should make an effort to create accessible content, because it's part ... Read full entry

Ali K. Photoblog: Ali Karagoz is a Turkish born computer science student now residing in Paris, who has quite the photographer's eye. Spotted at coolstop the online aggregator of all things cool! Shutterbug: as you may have guessed from the title, is also a collection of photos, belonging to Tracey, a Sydney web developer. Also check out her stunning Flickr photos! Paul Barbera: is an interior ... Read full entry

Wordpress 2.2.2: disassociated.com has just come back online after we installed the latest Wordpress release. I made use of the Maintenance Mode Plugin while doing this upgrade... basically it displays a splash screen indicating your site is temporarily off-line for... maintenance! Very handy :) Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards: a great article/profile about Mr Web Design himself, Jeffrey Zeldman! 10 Tips on Writing the Living ... Read full entry