This my Dribbble shot from yesterday. I am designing a UI set and these are the first 3 elements. Click image or below to view on Dribbble!

http://dribbble.com/shots/283733-Orange-Buttons

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Reasons why people who work with computers seem to have a lot of spare time… 

I just got to be apart of an awesome project with some of the best web developers I’ve ever gotten the chance to call friends, and one of these guys showed me this little gem!

This is an awesome template that will automatically set up your markup structure, css framework and get you ready for dev in all browsers. The more and more I learn about HTML5, the more and more tools like this speed up the build & overall production. 

Special thanks to Ryan Jarvinen (http://ryanjarvinen.com/) for the hook ups on this awesome tool. Check it out, and look at their resources! The team that built this was thorough and everything is well documented. Happy coding!

Stop what you are doing. Right now. Go to http://layerstyles.org/ and go. to. town. In-browser image editing that kicks out your CSS. 

WTF

Go. Now. 

This week’s freebie comes from a sweet lil’ tool I found on the interwebs. I wish I remember who linked me to give them love, but I just quicked sent the clip to Evernote and didn’t grab the source. 

But anyways, for those of us that build the internet, you will instantly understand how amazing this tool is! 

If you don’t get it, then you probably don’t make websites. Or you should stop. 

Click here to start using the Modular Grid Pattern!

This is something even I have fallen into in the past. So negate my usual “I’m smart you’re stupid” tone and let uncle Chad give you some advice.

More and more I’m seeing people start a small business or launch a personal blog or site. And a huge part of this effort is usually to engage and build an audience on a very personal level.

So please listen to me when I say, stop writing about your self in third person! It’s rarely appropriate and it comes off as… Impersonal!

Speak directly to your audience and ask yourself, “how does this content lead to interaction, both online and in person?” If you don’t have a good response, you might not have good content.

You don’t write your resume and cover letter in third person do you? When you blow up, let mashable write in third person about you. For now, you stick to you in the first.