The Good Designs

• Guide to CSS support in email clients – Articles & Tips – Campaign Monitor
  From Campaign Monitor. Hugely helpful. It's interesting to see how bad Gmail is at handling emailers. Make sure to download the full reports to check out more.
  (tags: resources design email html-email)
• Stupid HTML Email Design Mistakes | MailChimp.com
  From MailChimp.com. These are things you might not think of to consider when you design an emailer.
  (tags: mailchimp html-email html email)
• EmailElements – Blogging all about HTML Email Standards, CSS and XHTML: Email
  Excellent, excellent resource. Mike Kleiman posts about various HTML email subjects, and has a 3-part series on how to code one. This links to the "Email" label, so you'll have to scroll to find the series.
  (tags: html html-email design email)
• Vdot Media – 9 best practices for email design
  From Vdot Media. Some really good tips to consider.
  (tags: html html-email email design)

In looking around for inspiration for my own site, I came across an absolute TON of fantastically designed portfolios. Here are a few links that showcase the best of the best:

• 40 Beautiful Web Design Portfolios // WellMedicated
  from WellMedicated
  (tags: webdesign portfolio inspiration design resources)
• 25 Impressive Portfolio Web Designs
  from sixrevisions.com
  (tags: portfolio inspiration webdesign design gallery)
• 22 Most Creative Web Portfolios
  From elitebydesign.com
  (tags: portfolio inspiration webdesign design gallery)

Hello, 2010!

I’ve been working on re-vamping the design of the site (as you can probably see). I was completely inspired by a ton of amazing portfolio blogs out there (especially these), but wanted to come up with something that I could use for a long time, and that matches my newly-updated resume. I did want to continue with the { as a design element, so you can see it here and there.

One thing you may notice is a near-daily posting of links to various articles and resources. These are the things I’m bookmarking and linking to in Delicious throughout the day. By the way, if you have a blog and use Delicious, check out their beta blog thing: you can have it auto-post to your blog!

Thanks,
Mary

The GraphicDesignBlog has an excellent list of 25 logos that have a “hidden meaning” in them. What are some of your favorites?

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