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 …
I was working with a client eCommerce site the other day, and a really concerning problem popped up. On the very last step of checkout, when you press the very final button to submit the order, the browser would pop …
WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it. By popular request, we are going to walk through designing for WordPress. In part one, we …
Here are FIVE different techniques you can use to create rounded corners for boxes on a website. There are always different ways to do things with CSS and rounded corners is a great example of that. Each of these five …
I run VMWare Fusion to run Windows Vista where I run IE Tester. I have to have IE 7 installed in order for IE Tester to be able to test all the versions: 5.5, 6, 7 and 8. Somedays …
Internet Explorer provides a way to target CSS styling information specifically for its different versions. These “conditional stylesheets” are the best way to handle CSS problems that pop up with your page in IE. They aren’t “hacks” (which are liable …
Update! I don’t actually own that site anymore, but the point of it at the time was to have little snippets of HTML you could easily copy and paste that were both Lorem Ipsum (filler) text and using basic semantic …
We’re back in Photoshop this week because I wanted to talk a little bit about a very specific skill that I think is important for all designers. That is the Pen Tool and using it to hand-draw clipping paths. There …
In some ways, the Contact Form is the “Hello, World!” application of web designers and web developers. It is nothing that hasn’t been done before a million times, but it is symbolic of being able to control the design of …
The popular JavaScript library jQuery is an amazing way to extend the design possibilities of your site beyond what CSS can do. But luckily, if you are already comfortable with CSS, you have a huge head start in jQuery! This …
Yet another PNG fix for IE 6, but this time with all our dreams come true. Positioning, repeating, and none of the link-blocking z-index madness. How does it work? Apparently the proprietary Microsoft VML language does a much …