Many web designers are also closet comic-book nerds. Andy Clarke came out of the closet at Web Directions South earlier this year when he spoke about finding inspiration for web design in comic book art. I&#8217;ve noticed that a lot of other geeks have not only been embracing their love for comics, but writing their own. In [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=01cc6889380f61802b856103b46396eb" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=01cc6889380f61802b856103b46396eb" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info

The following is republished from the Design View #39. Ah, you&#8217;ve got to love those wonderful geeks at Stanford. Lock &#8216;em in a room with a computer, a case of Red Bull, and two bags of Skittles, and they&#8217;ll invent Google before lunch, then go on to solve one of the most intractable problems of graphic design [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=44838f15449320f4c247356d3e0e9060"/> More info

This paper presents six questions IT operations should ask the enterprise architecture team before making the leap to a more dynamic SOA-based environment. More info

Jason &#8220;the designer man&#8221; Beaird, author of SitePoint’s The Principles of Beautiful Web Design (currently available in a limited, hard-cover signature edition), recently gave a presentation as a guest lecturer to the User-Centered Interface Design class run by Aarron Walter at The Art Institute of Atlanta. Jason’s talk drew upon the core design principles he discusses [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=1daec5fad6337a54d1dbbdfe5780087d" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=1daec5fad6337a54d1dbbdfe5780087d" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info

Symantec released a breakthrough product to help keep desktops laptops and servers safe from the ever-changing threat landscape. More info

Not to blow our own trumpet (most of you know anyway) but earlier this year we published a pretty awesome book. Of course ALL of our books are awesome, so let’s just say that this book is super awesome. You’d know it as The Principles of Beautiful Web Design written by Jason &#8220;the designer man&#8221; [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=634fb32b6ed38942ca17d6b19b94e422"/> More info

It is possible to profit from your mistakes. Let me tell you a little true story. &#8220; Once upon a time, one Saturday morning my (then) hosting company accidentally deleted one of my reseller accounts and failed to get the hosting back on-line for 2 and a half days, (the hows and whys of it [...] More info

The following is a little piece published in the last Design View. At the time of publishing, I noted that IE7 allowed you use CSS to set an image width to a percentage (for instance, 30%), but that it failed to re-calculate that percentage if you resized the browser and a full refresh was required [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=c8864603f1cd40a00117bf369e46b078" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c8864603f1cd40a00117bf369e46b078" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info

Sahar Sarid of conceptualist.com knows how to run a design contest. Last week he announced the winner of the $2,500 prize money offered via the logo design contest that he ran at SitePoint (the winner was John Wik for this entry). It&#8217;s interesting to look at the process that Sahar followed, as the contest holder, to [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=e839d75489c57b7acded9f0bf24f11e7" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=e839d75489c57b7acded9f0bf24f11e7" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info

This report is designed to help highlight the key security trends of today and suggest ways to defend against the sophisticated new generation of Internet threats certain to arise in the future. More info