Getting better at anything takes considerable time and effort. Feel like you are in a rut with progressing your web design skill? Try this:
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I am not an SEO expert. I said not long ago that I believe it’s mostly just a matter of common sense. However, I do find the subject interesting. Being the #1 result for a search term is a …
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 (think …
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. This screencast covers four methods/players. Two use …
I used to work in pre-press before I got into web design. I worked at three different somewhat large printing shops. Pre-press is the department that is in between clients (designers) files and actually getting those files to press. It …
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. Perhaps it’s discontinued, perhaps its special pricing, …
We’ve been chugging along over at Are My Sites Up keeping things running smoothly and working on new features for ya’ll. First and foremost, we were closed for new registrations for a while there while we worked out some growth …
I had a unique programming challenge the other day that I thought I’d share here. It’s rather specific and probably won’t be of huge general use, but hey, it might be interesting.
The idea was to have 160 characters become …
It was time for another design refresh! The best part about this one, for me, was that all the work I did last time made this one very easy to do.
As usual, it’s not extremely drastic. Evolutionary, not revolutionary. …
I had to build a quiz for a client a little while ago. A few multiple choice questions, submit button, and it grades the quiz and tells you how you did. It’s kinda dorky and really really simple PHP, but …
This video is the VERY basics of what HTML and CSS is, for the absolute beginner. HTML and CSS files are, quite literally, just text files. You don’t need any special software to create them, although a nice code editor …
