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There has been LOTS of great feedback on the first series of Converting a Photoshop Mockup into HTML/CSS. So let’s do it again! Every website is different will require different conversion technqiues so there will be plenty to learn this …

When creating navigational tabs that use real web text, some positioning issues may arise when that text is resized. The natural flow of a web page when text is resized is to push down. This can push your main content …

The iPhone has a funny way of bumping up the text size on websites when viewing them fairly far “zoomed out”. This can be wonderful, as it can help the text be readable while seeing more of the website. It …

Many sites do not use any fancy Content Management System (CMS) to generate their pages, they are just just good ol’ static HTML content. A site for your grandmothers pie baking business probably only has a few pages, perhaps a …

So you have WordPress installed! Congratulations! Now what? I find myself installing WordPress quite often, so I’ll share with you my “first steps” after a fresh install to get WordPress set up to my liking. This involves changing settings, resetting …

There are three different types of layouts for websites: Fixed Width, Fluid Width, and Elastic Width. In this screencast we look at all these three varieties of sites out on the web as well as some hybrid sites and other …

This weeks Links of Interest post is WordPress-themed, like the rest of this week =)

Nick La is in the midst of a series on working with WordPress. So far he has done Installing WordPress Locally…

Using three layers of alpha transparent PNG files, we can can create a pseudo 3-dimensional looking background for a web page. This screencast covers how to do that from start to finish. Since Internet Explorer 6 and under do not …

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With any new client, before you start choosing technologies, you should be finding out more about them. What they are all about, why they need a website, and what the goals of that site are. But …

Being organized and using good formatting in your CSS files can save you lots of time and frustration during your development process and especially during troubleshooting. The multi-line format makes it easy to browse attributes but makes your file vertically …

I’ve been working with WordPress a lot lately. The redesign around has had me moving lots of stuff inside WordPress and using it more and more like a real CMS (video on this). At work lately we’ve been …