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Many, many people asked for this. I resisted a long time mostly since I thought seeing them on such a small screen would be useless. But I concede that listening and sort-of seeing …

Designing HTML Email is far cry from regular web design. Sure, they both us HTML elements, but the whole philosophy is different. In this world, you gotta do all you can do to make sure this single design is as …

When I reference images, I almost always do something like this:

<img src="/images/logo.png" alt="logo"

That is a relative file path, but it begins at the root public directory of the site. That way it always references the same location, no …

Integrating search on a website can be an incredibly complex subject far beyond my web development skills. Fortunately, Google offers a service called “Custom Search Engine” which you can integrate right into your own site. This leverages Googles awesome search …

Anytime anyone asks me about forms, I always mention Wufoo. At work and at home, almost every single form I create I just use Wufoo. It makes form creation so easy it’s almost entertaining. In this screencast I walk you …

Here’s another new site from me. I love reading books about design, so I’ve made a little site to help immortalize the great little quotes I come across. There aren’t a ton of them up there yet, but I plan …

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In part three of this series, we finish up the structure of the site and start diving into the details. The typography is set up, the right sidebar is set up, and the footer if flushed out. Then we use …

Chris Spooner has put together a little roundup of videos from some of the best web design conferences this soon-to-be-past year. Makes me jealous! I’ve never once been to a web conference. …

We have WordPress installed, now let’s really get our hands dirty and start getting WordPress to do what we want it to do. We start by poking around the backend activating some plugins, changing some settings and creating posts/pages. Then …