Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?

Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?

Over the last several years, developers have moved from table-based website structures to div-based structures. Hey, that’s great. ...

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Exercise to Get Better at Web Design

Exercise to Get Better at Web Design

Getting better at anything takes considerable time and effort. Feel like you are in a rut with progressing your web design skill? Try this: Find a web site you really love the design of. ...

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Navigation Markup After Content

Navigation Markup After Content

I am not an SEO expert. I said not long ago that I believe it’s mostly just a matter of common sense . ...

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Auto-Moving Parallax Background

Auto-Moving Parallax Background

A while back I did a little demo on parallax backgrounds. As a quick review, parallax is that effect where there are different layers of backgrounds that all move at a different rate creating a very unique 3D effect...

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Learn How to Style Articles for Print and Email

Learn How to Style Articles for Print and Email

When designing websites, a commonly desired feature is the ability to dynamically print or email any section of a webpage. Unfortunately, this idea is usually scrapped later in the project due to a lack of time or knowledge. ...

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8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs

8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs

Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there...

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New Screencast: Embedding Audio

New Screencast: Embedding Audio

Putting an image on a webpage is easy, audio files, not so much. HTML5 will make it as easy as it should be, but until then, we have to resort to other methods. ...

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Fun With CSS Shapes

Fun With CSS Shapes

I bet a bunch of you don’t realize that we can create the illusion of shapes by using 100% CSS. By utilizing the border property in creative ways, we can make some really interesting polygons. In this week’s screencast...

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Need Something Changed On Your Website? Treat Me Like a Six-Year-Old (Really)

Need Something Changed On Your Website? Treat Me Like a Six-Year-Old (Really)

I used to work in pre-press before I got into web design. I worked at three different somewhat large printing shops...

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Filtering Blocks

Filtering Blocks

One of our eCommerce clients at work had a number of products they wanted to put on special to promote on the web. Each product has a different “reason” why it’s on special...

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