Learning Web Design
Four Key Components of a Great Web Design
Nov 25, 2009CommentsThere’s a lot that goes into creating a web design, but I believe it can be broken down into four main components. All aspects of a great design must compliment each other while helping achieve the end goals of the website. In this article, I’ve broken down the four key components of a great web design with examples and resources.
Choose It7 Ways to Master the Art of Tableless Web Design
Nov 25, 2009CommentsSo you wanna master tableless web design, eh? The best way to move forward and nurture your skills is to set goals, preferably daily. If you practice patience and take consistent steps in the direction you want to go, you will get there. To help you along your path, here are seven simple ways to move in the direction of mastery in tableless web design.
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Nov 21, 2009CommentsBuilding a jQuery plugin is relatively easy if you know the basics. In this article we are going to build a simple plugin which highlights (actually blinks) the link, paragraph, span or any text element on the page.
Choose ItDesigning A Mobile Website
Nov 21, 2009CommentsOver 2 billion mobile phone users have access to the web on a global scale. In order to design a simple, effective, and attractive mobile website, there are a few ingredients that we need to add into the mix. This article should satisfy all of your basic needs for a mobile platform on your site.
Choose It5 More Helpful Video Quick Tips
Nov 21, 2009CommentsIn these 5 helpful videos, you’ll learn how to select anything and everything with jQuery, how to log PHP errors to a text file, how to change your website’s background with each WordPress post, and more. Each video does not exceed five minutes.
Choose ItCoding Clean and Semantic Templates
Nov 18, 2009CommentsIf you are the guy who uses >div< tag for everything, this post is for you. It focuses on how you can write clean HTML code by using semantic markups and minimize the use of >div< tag. Writing clean templates can not only benefit yourself, but your team as well.
Choose ItCoding a Web Design for Speed and Quality
Nov 16, 2009CommentsThe beauty of being a web designer is creating a detailed, creative, and original web design in Photoshop, without having to (for the most part) think about how it will be coded. In this article, you’ll find a few simple tips that can help designers learn basic XHTML/CSS conversion efficiently for a quick-loading website that is accurate to the original PSD.
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Nov 13, 2009CommentsFlickr is, without doubt, the biggest and best photography website on the internet. There are lots of widgets, badges and plugins which allow you to display your latest Flickr photos on your website, but we’ll take it a step further by tapping straight into Flickr and integrating your photostream into your website, giving you a photo gallery that is a breeze to update.
Choose ItExploration on Web Tab Modules
Nov 11, 2009CommentsThe use of web tab module has been widely adopted to break content into multiple sections that can be swapped on the fly to save space. Technically, when a developer tries to implement a tab module into a new project, there are certain things that he or she would need to take note of. In the following paragraphs, we shall discuss about the aspects of a tab module which a front end developer should note.
Choose ItA Roundup Of 25 Advanced CSS Tips And Tutorials
Nov 10, 2009CommentsWeb-design has evolved greatly in the past couple years, thanks to all the great CSS tutorials out there. Of course now that browsers like Safari/webkit and Firefox/moz support some CSS3 properties, we’re seeing more and more designers use those newer techniques. Today I’d like to share with you some great CSS (and CSS3) tips, techniques and tutorials.
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