A Roundup of 20 Super Impressive Bedroom Offices

If you are on the search for the perfect home office arrangement, look no further. Here are twenty impressive ideas which range from the simple to the sophisticated.

1. Home Office 2.0

A walk-in closet office, the gamer is surrounded by books and media.

2. The Famous Home Office

With six monitors and a couple of laptops, this home office has the sensation of going on a futuristic amusement park ride.

3. Home Office Desk

Both functional and impressive, a long table containing laptops and monitors hugs the wall.

4. Home Office

Several computers, CDs and monitors make up this space. The dog and label on the wall are the perfect finishing touches.

5. Spare Bedroom/Office

Lounge on the couches and read a book or look out the window in this comfortable spare room.

6. Home Office

This room is decorated in bricks and wood, with comfortable chairs.

7. 1830′s Federal Victorian House Office

The high ceilings could go on forever.

8. Man Cave

This panoramic picture has everything that a computer geek needs.

9. Home Office Aerial Shot

The simplicity of this home office setup speaks volumes.

10. Brooklyn Home Office

An efficient use of space. A very nice view overlooking the city also.

11. Home Office

Very minimalist home office over looking New Jersey. However its obviously Photoshopped to make the office glow.

12. 360 Forged Home Office

Hardwood floors and track lighting make this room impressive.

13. The Closet Home Office

Another closet office complete with a medieval lamp and a great textured wall.

14. Chess Home Office

The chessboard mousepad completes this scene.

15. My Workspace/Home Office

With a gnarled wood scene above the desk, this setup has character.

16. The Desk

A technophile has plenty of toys in this office.

17. Modern Home Office

Right by the window, this arrangement is the epitome of comfort.

18. Office Organisation

An understated setup with a wooden and an exercise ball.

19. My Home Office

This so called home office, has an awesome view over a city and various buildings.

20. Office Phase One

Two monitors, a gorgeous view and a piggy bank grace this scene.

Minimalist or ostentatious, you have a unique style which should be expressed.

Gareth is an online marketer and full time blogger for Broadband Compare NI, Northern Ireland’s leading broadband comparison website, they aim to bring broadband Northern Ireland the best deals for their customers.

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As the web has developed so has the technology and range of platforms we can use to engage with it. As the range of screens increases, higher resolution displays are becoming the norm whilst at the same time both larger and smaller screens are becoming more widespread than ever before.

As designers we have a choice. Do we continue designing for the ’safe’ standard of 960px or do we expand our horizons and begin to think about flexible or even responsive web design. Sites that look different for different users depending upon their screen size are not a new thing, mobile sites have been around for years, but responsive design proposes something else entirely, designs which scale to anything from a iPhone right up to a 52″ high definition television screen.

3 Ways to Build a Responsive Site

Firstly, Fluid Layouts

Fluid layouts have been around for years and many of the first sites that populated the early web where such that they would expand to whatever size the browser could handle. These sites have the benefit of only requiring one design and set of code, however when a site can be displayed at any width there can never be any consistency as to how information is presented and often leads to messy sites.

A popular use of fluid width sites can be seen on many of the Yahoo! sites where there is a fixed width column bounded by a fluid area, populated with smaller boxes of content.

Secondly, Mobile & Desktop

By far the most popular method of accounting for vastly differing sizes in screens, and the user experiences associated with them, is the design of two websites. Often first created is the desktop version, after which a smaller, scaled down version is curated for mobile users. This approach achieves two objectives. Firstly it allows for only two designs to be created, minimizing the time taken to code whilst still optimizing the site for each of the two key categories. Secondly it provides the content creator with two, consistent and therefore predictable, formats in which the content will be displayed.

However this split-personality approach to web design can leave out many devices which either fall between the two, such as the iPad and netbooks, or are far larger than the standard desktop, HD Tv’s for example. This can lead to clients requesting an ‘iPad Version of the site’ or citing the need to ‘appify’ their site for ‘those fancy tablet things’.

Thirdly, Media Queries

Once of the most trumpeted developments in the new CSS3 spec is something called ‘media queries’, which allow us the option to specify certain ranges of sizes at which the page should change layout. The benefit of this approach is that the site only has to be designed once and from that each set can be created.

On the flip-side this requires a new way of thinking about content (and probably a fallback of mobile/desktop for older browsers as well), as a series of modules or sections, rather than as single elements.

Designing a Responsive Project

When building a responsive site there are many considerations, however by far the hardest is how to make your content flow, here are 5 tips for creating a responsive design.

1. Follow natural breaks such as <h2> and its friends

Heading are, or should be, used to break content into scannable chunks. That means that when looking where to break the content for a responsive design headings tags are a great place to start.

2. Images often tell their own story

On many sites images are only vaguely related to the content around them. It therefore often doesn’t matter whether the image is on the left of, above or below a paragraph of text, making images a great candidate for shifting in a responsive design.

3. Quotes, Code & Tables are contextual

Whilst similar to images these extra pieces of information are often far more directly related to the content than the images. It is often a good idea to group these with the explaining paragraphs, either before or after as a section on their own.

4. Don’t split up blog posts

Unless you write long blog posts it is often worth working your design around a blog post, product page or other central content. About Us or Staff pages, whilst nice are far less critical to the sites purpose but those pages that are the bread and butter of the site should be given priority when designing a responsive site.

5. Keep the navigation together

Navigation is the lifeline of the majority of your content, the single block that has become uniform across the web is a vital part of many users browsing habits and moving it to the bottom or getting rid of it all together can through many a user and make your site that bit harder to use.

Who is Responsive Design For?

Responsive design is about allowing content to fit with the users preferences, whether the user is browsing through an iPod or HD Tv, the website should present the best possible experience. There are some draw backs however to responsive design. Firstly, consider the guy using his HD Tv, whose viewing area is a huge 52″. Whilst at first this may sound like a brilliant idea, anyone who’s ever tried it knows that in actual fact poorly designed sites simply become unreadable.

Anyone considering designing for a responsive web should remember many of the basic lessons of UX design, line lengths that are readable, line heights that allow for easy moving between lines and letter spacing that helps the eye to flow between letters. These lessons become even more important in responsive web design as the option to abuse them becomes so much simpler to create.

Responsive Design is Here to Stay

Responsive design has both its benefits and pitfalls and anyone considering designing a responsive site would be well advised to read up on the basics of UX design first, remembering a few simple lessons will go a long way. As CSS3 becomes more widespread and sites begin implementing responsive designs it will be interesting to see how they are used by larger corporations and whether it is a technique that will indeed become widely adopted.

What do you recommend? Should your web image have a resolution of 72dpi or is it irrelevant as the browser works in pixels and 100 pixels are 100 pixels no matter what dpi you select? What do you think?

You can leave your thoughts or recommendations below, or you can leave your answer on the original question on Answers here: What resolution do you recommend for an image on the web?

What resolution do you recommend for an image on the web?

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Thanks to everyone who asked a question, but most importantly thanks to everyone that took the time and effort to offer helpful and useful answers.

Sometimes to get your development juices flowing you just need a meaty project or an in-depth tutorial that you can sink your teeth into and lose yourself for a few hours in coding bliss. And that’s what we have for you today, three tutorials that will satisfy your code craving! They are not only roll-up-your-sleeves and put-on-a-pot-of-coffee good but they will also introduce you to some of the latest CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery techniques.

A jQuery, CSS3 & HTML5 Hover-Based Interface

In this awesome tutorial you will learn how to create a useful hover-based user interface using jQuery, CSS3, HTML5 and @font-face. The project you’ll be creating could easily be used for a portfolio or business site and the concepts you’ll learn could certainly be used to expand the idea further.
A jQuery, CSS3 & HTML5 Hover-Based Interface

Dynamic FAQ Section w/ jQuery, YQL & Google Docs

In this tutorial, you will build a dynamic FAQ section. The script, with the help of jQuery & YQL, will pull the contents of a shared spreadsheet in your Google Docs account, and use the data to populate the FAQ section with questions and answers.
Dynamic FAQ Section w/ jQuery, YQL & Google Docs

How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5

For years, Flash was the only solution to display a dynamic chart on a website. But thanks to modern techniques, the dying Flash isn't needed anymore. In this tutorial,you'll be shown how easy it is to transform a basic HTML table into a profesionnal looking chart using visualize.js, a very useful jQuery plugin.
How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).

Vector graphics can be used for all kinds of visual purposes, from logos and advertising, to cartoons, portraiture and fine art. Software such as Illustrator and Corel Draw have made vector design open to everyone, and its one of those skills thats easy to pick up but full of endless possibility for development. This post brings together 20 examples of brilliant vector design for inspiration and enjoyment.
1. 1310 (Ya-Na)

This wonderful floral composition achieves just the right balance in the cool and warm colours and tones. There’s a nice mixture of drawing styles in each flowery blossom, some of which are simply exquisite.
2. Black Cat for Desert (Recyledwax)

The characters in this brilliant design are dark and cute, and very stylishly drawn.
3. Water (LimKis)

LimKis is a highly talented vector artist producing images in a range of styles and visual approaches. This image is her interpretation of water; a colourful, dynamic and almost abstract composition that captures the dynamism of churning surf, reminiscent of the woodblock prints of Japanese artist Hokusai.

4. Funk Overload (Machine56)

Funk Overload presents a stunning futuristic techno-style vector design, all created in CorelDraw X-3.

5. Vespa Girl ala Mucha (Sun2197)

This cool poster design is inspired by, and in part traced from, the work of Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha. The image also employs Manga-style graphics. Interestingly, Mucha himself was influenced by Ed-era Japanese art, so this image can perhaps be seen as part of a long and noble graphic tradition.

6. Yermo Vineyards Wine Label and Logo (Faith Globe)

Faith Globe’s vector logo and wine label design for Yermo Vineyards is an enticingly retro creation, made entirely in Illustrator.

7. Miss You (Waver-h)

Waver-h’s vector drawing is a beautifully detailed design, simple distinctions of tone and density creating a great sense of depth.

8. Dali Van Gogh in Vector Art (Alejandro Peters)

Alejandro Peters experimental collage combines painting by Vincent Van Gogh and a portrait photo of Salvador Dali, along with dazzlingly colourful vectors.

9. Parple Barple (Glug Glug) (Quando Jones)

There’s a strong trend in contemporary vector art for cute yet deranged cartoon characters, bizarre creatures in absurd settings. Quando Jones is a talented artist working in this field of strange characterisation.

10. Peony Abstract (Geishaboy500)

Geishaboy500′s design is an amazing piece of abstraction combining handcrafted touches, vector drawing and beautifully handled transparencies.

11. Til I Get Over You (Tasha25)

This portrait by Tash25 has a strong retro aesthetic, with delicate tonality in the play of light across the models dress and facial features.

12. Frozen in Time (Hitman101)

This cool vector image captures a slice of lime making a splash, a moment that the artist painstakingly recreated using Illustrator’s gradient meshes.

13. In Love (Debs)

Hand-drawn and wallpaper elements are combined to great effect in this delightfully quirky vector t-shirt design.

14. Schmetterling (Varziel)

The delicate pink colour scheme in this vector image is used to masterful effect, uniting the portrait and butterfly elements in the composition.

15. Crow (Murat Sunger)

Crows hold a particular place in the human imagination. This brilliantly drawn vector design captures the powerful form and corvid intelligence of the creatures.

16. I’m Free‚ Now What? (TheSigner)

The artist used a rigorous process of working back and forth between hand drawing, Photoshop and Illustrator, constantly reworking the lines and forms, to create this astonishing piece of graphic body art.

17. Black and White (Cloning)

The level of detail is quite mesmerising in this monochrome vector, which is jam-packed with robots, tin toys, mobile phones and countless other unidentifiable objects.

18. Hello World (A Little Kitty)

This charming candy-coloured vector creation is made even cuter by the edible character’s excited declaration, “Hello World!!”

19. No Guns Knives (ScytheDesigner)

ScytheDesigner delivers a slice of urban optimism in seductively warm colours, the hopeful message pleading for a gun and knife-free city environment.

20. The Midnight Light (Gartier)

The red and black stripes of light and shade are skilfully drawn to describe the contours of a woman’s form in this timeless piece of midnight chic, another stunning example of vector art.

James Adams is passionate about design. He is currently a full time writer working at a leading supplier of toner cartridges where he analyses and reviews hardware like the MLT-D1082S as well as writing about advertising and art for their design blog.

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We are going to show you now some amazing artworks that will inspire you for sure. All these designs are made by professional designers like Andreas Rocha, Bryce Smith, Cris de Lara, and many more.

Just click on every image for a full view.

You can also save all the images to your Desktop. You have a download link at the end of the article.

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Validating HTML or CSS code is a controversial topic. Many are strict on assuring their code is validated while others do not care at all. There are plethoras of reasons why you should validate your code, or at least as much as possible instead of ignoring the errors. We discuss several benefits to validating your HTML and or CSS.

Decrease Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform Issues

There are many reasons why some browsers interpret your code differently from others. While it could be an intended implementation in the browser, it is mainly a bug in its interpreter that causes variant changes to your web page across many different browsers and platforms.

You can implement many quick fixes and “hacks” to your code to get it to look just right in most of the popular browsers. However, as these browsers continue to be updated, one of your hacks or quick fixes may have been a temporary work around to a bug in the browser, which may be fixed in the future causing your site to look awkward after an update has been implemented.

Moreover, while some workarounds are necessary, you can try to eliminate several by just validating most or all of your code, possibly making your website future proof.

Good Development Practices

Assuring your code is completely valid benefits you as a developer as you will help teach yourself good development practices for the future. Additionally, when learning or developing, it is best to learn and develop something the right way instead of keeping bad habits in your learning and developing process.

Professionalism

Validated code is a big sign of professionalism especially to your current or future employer and or clientele. By having valid code, it shows whomever it may be that you take your time to develop something of quality rather than something that seems like you whipped up quickly to get the job done.

As an additional to professionalism being valid code, organized and well laid code is also a sign of quality and professionalism. Thus, always assure your code is neatly organized and valid when need-be.

Standards Compliant Code

Browsers today are always improving to be standards compliant, so your website should too. When you validate your code, it means that your code is standard compliant. With that said, it is definitely a great idea to future-proof your website by validating your code, which generally takes minutes to do.

How to Validate

Now that we covered several benefits to validating your code, how do you validate code?

One of the easiest ways to validating your code is to visit w3.org and use the HTML and CSS validators available there. All you need to do to check if your code is valid, is to either upload, paste, or link your code or website and hit the validate button. If errors return, they usually provide explanations to each error returned, making it generally easy for you to follow through and fix.

Other ways to validate your code is to utilize tools available to make validating code a lot easier. These tools are generally available in a plethora of options such as validators built into Integrated Development Environments, browser toolbars, online services, or even desktop tools.

Overall, validating your code is a definite must whether you do it today or tomorrow. In fact, as time progresses and browsers continue to update to become more standards compliant, not validating your code will mean that your website will not properly be laid out as you may have intended throughout these browsers.

Furthermore, prepare your websites for tomorrow and get the code validated as it will save you time in the future, and your website will more likely work across different browsers and platforms than it would be without being validated.

For today’s news we have collected our favorites design and development related freebies from the the past week and thought they were that good, that we simply had to share them with our readers.

“Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons

The icon set is called “Buddycons” and includes 126 vector social media icons. Included in the set are PNG versions of all 126 icons in both circular and rounded variations as well as a vector source file for easy resizing. The icons are free to use for personal and commercial usage, however, redistribution is not allowed.
“Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons

Free PSD Templates: vCard Personal Portfolio Minisite

This PSD design comes in 4 pages: Homepage (About), Works (Portfolio), Portfolio Pop-Up, and Contact.
All the pages are in Photoshop (.PSD) format with all layers neatly organized in layer groups for easy identification and editing of the logo, text and graphics.
Free PSD Templates: vCard Personal Portfolio Minisite

Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography

This theme supports widgets, is SEO optimized and has clean and documented code. It loads very quickly, and has various WordPress 3.0 features. Works in IE 6+ and all versions of Safari/Firefox/Opera. The theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects.
Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography

Typominima: Free typography based minimal WordPress theme

Typominima is a free typography based, gorgeous, minimal WordPress theme fit for the writer inside you.
Typominima: Free typography based minimal WordPress theme

Coda Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF)

Coda Shortcuts Cheat Sheet (PDF)

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).

You can search on Google for Human Silhouettes Vector, free of course, but I can tell you personally that all the sites you’ll find don’t offer you this much!

This is an amazing pack, with over 500 human shapes, doing different things, scaleable EPS and AI format.

If you like this pack why not support WDB and buy a premium membership that will benefit both you and help WDB stay live.

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