100 Design-Related Blog Posts With Lists of 100 Things

1. Top 100 Best Fonts of All Time
2. 100 Inspiring Character Designs
3. 100 Great Blog Logso
4. 100 Great Inspirational Resources for Designers
5. 100 Extraordinary Examples of Paper Art
6. 100 of the Best Creative and Grunge Designs About (Hm… about…)
7. 100 Wonderful Photo Effects Photoshop Tutorials
8. 100 of the Best Inspirational Blog Designs
9. 100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Designs
10. 100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009 (And here we begin quite a few from Smashing Magazine…)
    
11. 100 Beautiful Free Textures
12. 100 Obscure and Remarkable CD Covers
13. 100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers
14. 100 Free High-Quality CSS/XHTML Templates
15. 100 Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons and Buttons (Why would you ever need that many!)
16. 100+ Free RSS Feed Icons (Honestly now…)
17. 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009
18. 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
19. 100+ Resources for Web Developers
20. 100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration
21. 100 Gorgeous Designer Wallpapers
22. 100+ Stunningly Beautiful and Brilliant Space Wallpapers
23. 100 Crazy Skateboard Designs
24. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use (This isn’t really design-specific, but I would actually use it.)
25. 100 Websites with Outstanding Artistic Design
26. 100 (Really) Creative Business Cards (You know… at this rate Rockport Publishing could go out of biz.)
27. 100 Great Free and Open Source Tools and Applications for Web Developers
28. Top 100 User-Centered Blogs
29. 100 Outstanding Login Forms
30. 100 Sources of Design Inspiration
31. 100 Greatest Movie Posters of All Time (Technically not a blog post, but still of a designerly ilk)
32. 100 Exceptional Free Paper Models and Toys
33. 100 Amazing Futuristic Design Concepts We Wish Were Real
34. Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites (Also not really about design, but it’s stuff that list-junkie designers care about.)
35. 100+ Massive CSS Toolbox (It’s massive!)
36. 100 Greatest Abstract and Grunge Fonts
37. Inspiration Overload: 100 CSS Galleries You Need to Check Out (Okay, does this make this entry extra-super-meta?)
38. 100 Tips About All Adobe CS4 Applications
39. 100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns
40. 100 Design Book Covers
41. 100 (Non-Design) Blogs That Every Web Designer Should Read
42. 100 Free, Essential Web Tools for Digital Artists
43. 100+ Artworks from the Top 20 Digital Artists in Europe
44. Over 500 Layout Design Tutorials
45. See above.
46. See above.
47. See above.
48. See above. (I’m such a cheater! Ho ho ho.)
49. 760+ Photoshop Tutorials for Web and Graphic Designers (HOLY COW.)
50. So this means
51. I can take up
52. all these
53. spaces.
54. I should have taken the opportunity to write a Haiku.
55. Oh well.
56. 100 Artworks from the Top Digital Artists in Asia
57. The 100 Most Funny and Unusual 404 Error Pages
58. 100+ High-Quality Hand-Picked Icon Sets
59. 100 + 1 FREE Photo/Image Galleries (AJAX, Flash, PHP)
60. 100 Essential Mac Applications (We like Macs. We do we do we do-oooo.)
61. 100 Killer Web Accessibility Resources: Blogs, Forums and Tutorials
62. 100+ Funny Photos Taken At Unusual Angle [Humor]
63. 100 Best Sites to Find Tutorials!
64. 100 Amazing Design Blogs To Subscribe To
65. 99 Resources for Web 2.0 Design (I think 99 is game, considering there were some 101’s up there.)
66. 100+ Free Vector Files
67. 100 Most Creative Business Cards
68. Business Card Design: 100+ Creative Examples, Useful Tutorials and Templates
69. 100 Typography Resources for Professional Designers
70. 100+ Free Seamless Vector Patterns Ideal for Web Design and Print Work
71. 100+ Best Web Galleries Around for Your Inspiration (This is actually different from the one above.)
72. 100 Free Christmas Design Resources
73. 99 Kick-Ass Websites for Your Inspiration
74. 100 Excellent iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers
75. 100 Must-See Art Blogs (of Every Form)
76. 100+ Elegant and Artistic Wallpapers
77. 100 Ideas to Spark You Into Creative Action
78. 100.000+ Free Fonts Mega Compilation (This alone would push me over the 100 line, but I’ll be nice and make it only count for one.)
79. 100+ Resources and Inspiration for Hand Drawn Design
80. The 100 Hottest Business Card Designs (another one!)
81. 100 Unused Logos and What They Reveal About My Design Inclinations
82. 100 Cereal Box Covers
83. 100 Examples of Japanese Municipal Flags
84. Google Maps: 100+ Best Tools and Mashups
85. 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images
86. 100 Design Articles to Keep You Motivated
87. 100+ Incredible Twitter Backgrounds
88. 100 Extremely Creative Twitter Avatars
89. 100 of the Best Designs Around!
90. 100+ Best Available Services for PSD to HTML Conversion (I feel dirty for even including this.)
91. The Definitive Top 100 Graphic Design Companies
92. 100+ Grunge Textures Collection
93. 100+ Free HTML Email Newsletter Templates (This makes me feel dirty too…)
94. 125+ Ultimate Roundup of Illustrator Tutorials
95. 100 Web Designers to Follow on Twitter
96. The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008
97. 100+ Minimal and Typographic Package Designs
98. 100 Most Popular Books About Graphic Design
99. 100+ Vectors: Mega Vector Mix Collection
100. 100 Fresh Logo Designs for Design Inspiration

I could go on, but then I’d have to stop at another nice round number like 1000. So I think I’d better not, plus I really should be going to sleep because I have work tomorrow.

Well, to end on a thoughtful note, here’s a possible reason that there are so darn many of these:

• Tackle Any Issue with a List of 100

And with that, I’m discovering that scrollbars are surprisingly complex critters, made even more complex by the fact that Adobe hasn’t given us a decent scrollbar/scrolling class to work with. Which means, in the Flash world, if you want any sort of semi-awesome custom scrollbar, you pretty much have to do it from scratch or work off of other people’s preexisting examples (this is where the “almost” comes in for me).

I continue to find this a little silly because scrollbars are such a common thing and they all have the same basic functionality save for some variables that a user would want to customize. It’s, like, a prime ripe opportunity for class-ifying.

(Actually, turns out, Adobe did make this UI component scrollbar class but it only works with the weird xml layouting scheme for Flex that I know nothing about. Yikes. So what they really need to get a move on is a class that can be instantiated in AS…)

For the seasoned Googler, there are a lot of attempts, sprinkled all over the internets, by various coders of authoring a good scrollbar class. However I still find it a pain that we have to Google for it and spend all this time figuring out if any particular code we’ve found is any good before borrowing it and running with it.

To save some time later, here are a couple that I found that look pretty decent:

• http://as3.kylebrekke.com/2008/advanced-customizable-as3-scrollbar-class-for-adobe-flash-cs3/
• http://www.emstris.com/2009/01/final-scrollbar-class-v-20/
• http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=245468

The last one is the one I ran with because it was the most abstract one I found. I managed to customize it to dynamically resize to the stage height and width to accomodate liquid layouts. That was the major thing that I needed for this layout that I couldn’t find anywhere else. Also, I made the arrow buttons scroll continuously on press, rather than making the user flick repeatedly.

(That’s another thing I think Adobe seriously shouldn’t have forgotten about… why can’t we just have a continuously firing MouseEvent rather than having to tie an ENTER_FRAME to the MOUSE_DOWN?)

So it seems like there are a lot of existing classes out there, and I’m really just a small fry novice, but I wonder if I should try to find the time to write one of my own. It would be good practice, and other than iffy arithmetic (details, details…), I think I could do it pretty easily using my elementary coding skillz.

Mine at least would have the option of dynamically resizing to stage size, which I think would be really useful for some…

Anyway, back to work.