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Friday November 07, 2008 | Filed in: elixir
The mailman delivered my copy of Design Meltdown's The Web Designer's Idea Book just the other day. I ordered a copy to check out all of the amazing site designs as well as to see the spots where elixir sites were listed.


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I originally thought our sites would merely be shown as thumbnails, like most sites in the book, and didn't expect much more. Boy, was I surprised! Not only did elixir and CSStux make it into the book, but both were touted in the introductions to their respective chapters. The elixir site leads off the Icons section on pages 172-173 and CSStux begins the chapter relating to Shine on pages 205-206. You can also find a site we created long ago for Todd Albertson on page 24.

I was very honored by Patrick's kind words.

One of the funny but great things, I thought, was that on the same pages that list and tout elixir, the e-junkie site is listed. Patrick compares elixir's use of icons to that of e-junkie's. What's great is I designed them both.

The Web Designer's Idea Book is a great book and a must-have for designers looking for a lot of inspiration.

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