I’ve done my own The VERY Basics screencast , but this full series from Google, targeted at just-starting-out beginners , would be a good place to go directly after my intro, to take things further along. Direct Link to Article — Permalink If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Using percentage values for certain things can have slightly unexpected results in WebKit based browsers. For instance, if you have a series of columns set in percentage widths with percentage padding, WebKit can calculate their sizing rather strangely. The red lines indicate the column as rendered with WebKit If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

This is a direct link to a PowerPoint file by Steve Souders (in April 2009). Of particular interest is pages 19-33 with all the information on CSS selectors. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

    Today we present some useful free CSS/(X)HTML templates which are available for free download and use. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Day 2 of the UX Australia conference was packed full of excellent presentations, and after a bunch of encouraging comments from folks who saw my sketches from yesterday, I drew some more for today’s sessions. Rather than rely on my phone camera, this time I scanned today’s sketches to ensure that the images are of a higher quality. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Conqueror papers are launching a paper range and as part of the promotion, manufacturer Arjowiggins has commissioned five new typefaces which they are making available for free download to us lucky designers. The typefaces have been design by French typographer Jean Francois Porchez of Typofonderie . If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

It’s Friday, so here are a few random links and stories which caught my eye during the past week… The HTML5 Periodic Table This is glorious: it’s a list of all 104 HTML5 elements shown as a periodic table. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

I recently watched the movie Anvil – The Story Of Anvil , which is undoubtedly one of the most feel good films I’ve seen in years. I should admit at this point that I have no interest whatsoever in Heavy Metal but I was intrigued enough by the movie to go and have a look at some of the “greats” that feature in the documentary and thus a blog post was born. I’m usually not interested in slagging off websites but for such huge money making machines, many of the monsters of rock have pretty ugly and dated looking sites If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

I received an email this week that ShareThis , a social media sharing widget, is rolling out two new aspects of their standard sharing functions, Social Reach and Audience Index, to increase users’ insight into the value and reach of their shared content. What’s New with ShareThis? Social Reach is the combination of the ShareThis buttons you may already know with counters. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Do you have a GMail account (who doesn’t?) From today, you may be lucky enough to notice a new “Call Phone” option in your Chat box… Unlike the existing GMail voice and video chat system, Call Phone allows you to call a standard land-line telephone — the recipient doesn’t need to be logged on or even have a PC. What’s more, calls to the US and Canada are totally free and international calling rates are very competitive (less than $0.02 per minute for the UK, France, Germany, China and Japan). The Call Phone system uses the same browser plug-in as voice...