I came across this article yesterday about hot female designers and was inspired by the amazing work being produced by these women at the moment. Where I work there are mostly female designers, so this comes as no surprise to me, but I guess that’s because I feel we have good organisation skills for managing our projects as well as designing and building sites that impress our clients. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy working with guys as well and think a balance of both allows us to pool our strengths, but they tend to get more excited about the coding and back-end side of the projects more than I do. I like to work out tricky solutions or try out new code when I get the chance, but at the end of the day for me it’s really about the designs that I can produce.

Of the article that I read, my favourite portfolios belonged to:

• Honey Design – not only is her work amazing but I love how she uses nice big images to show screenshots of her work.
• Twiggle Graphics – clean fresh website which reflects her beautiful website designs. Her logo is also really cute.

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.

The premise of the system is ideally suited to rapid prototyping, but it would work equally well when integrated into a production environment. There are printable sketch sheets, design layouts, and a CSS file that have identical measurements.

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