Anand Chandrasekaran

Thoughts on eBusiness, web strategy, and the net

Stock Photos

As much as I like Photos.com, the membership can be steep for startups and small development shops. Here is are some great free stock photo sites that I have used:

www.stockvault.net
www.picfindr.com
www.public-domain-photos.com

Based on what I have been hearing and seeing of the later half of 2007, I think the following trends will either hold and come about in 2008:

Interactive design will be at a premium
More and more community / crowd sourcing sites around health care & energy efficient / green tech will spring up
Agile development practices [...]

Flex It

Recently I have seen a lot web apps use Adobe Flex to develop a rich UI. I had last looked at Flex when it was in its infancy. At the time it was pre beta and Flex was being positioned as a tool to build 3-D environments. I played with it some, [...]

Web Design Inspiration

I was just forwarded a link to a post titled, 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration. I thought it was an excellent post on places to go to get your creative juices flowing. When I am in web design mode (or make my best attempt), I usually go to several places for inspiration [...]

Color Matching

Over the last several days I have been working on a new navigation system for a web site I’m architecting. I want to let the user change the navigation colors in a very basic way, much like MSN.com. While I was struggling to come up with color combinations, I was doing some additional [...]