Steven Snell of Vandelay Design launched a brand new site called Designm.ag which is “articles and resources for designers”. I participated in a group interview post where a bunch of designers list some of …
Anchor links (<a>’s) by default have a dotted outline around them when they become “active” or “focused”. In Firefox 3, the color is determined by the color of the text. I believe in previous versions and in some other browsers …
Working on a website that you need others to see, but not the whole world? Password protecting a website (or a sub directory within a website) is actually a pretty easy thing to do.…
URL shortners have been around for a while, so it’s nice to see there is still innovation being done. Bit.ly offers all the standard features of a URL shortner, but includes compelling new features like click/referral tracking, automatic page …
Over the last few weeks, I have been been doing a video screencast series on Designing for WordPress. It is a three-part series which covers downloading and installing WordPress on a server all the way to a completed theme.
Internet Explorer 6 is always a hot subject of debate. We’ve talked about it here many many times. The forums are full of folks trying to troubleshoot it. The CSS support is problematic and the JavaScript support is proprietary nonsense. …
A collection of HTML/CSS T-Shirts. Some are funnier than others… I do like the XHTML one =) I did a roundup of CSS shirts a while ago too.
BgPatterns
As far as these “generators” go, …
If web pages were made out of wood, the grain would be running up and down. Vertical is the natural flow of web layout. When page elements reach the right edge of the browser window and go over, the flow …
The areas inside of regular ol’ HTML image maps support the title attribute which makes regular tooltips possible. Sometimes the default browser tooltips just don’t cut it, especially with their built in delays.
My favorite package for doing fancy tooltips …
We need ways to describe content in an HTML/XHTML document. The basic elements like h1, p, and ul will often do the job, but our basic set of tags doesn't cover every possible type of page element or layout choice. For this we need ID's and classes.
Noupe with another very nice monthly roundup of good design-y stuff around the web last month. I like these giant monthly roundup posts. Gives a good monthly goal of trying to write things that are worthy …
