Video Screencasts

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 … Read article “#10: Fixed Width, Fluid Width & Elastic Width”

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 … Read article “#9: Starry Night: 3D Background with the Parallax Effect”

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 … Read article “#8: CSS Formatting”

Using a variation of the CSS Sprites technique, we can create a “three state” menu using only one image per menu item. This reduces the number of requests on your … Read article “#7: Three State Menu”

Before I get too far along in these screencasts, I thought I would introduce you a little to my working environment and explain the tools that I use. First off, … Read article “#6: Tools of the Trade”

Forcing multiple columns to be of equal height is one of those tricky things in web design. In this screencast I’ll show you a little trick around it. Instead of … Read article “#5: Columns of Equal Height: Super Simple Two Column Layout”

In this screencast I talk about how to force vertical scrollbars onto websites. Without doing this, pages with centered content can appear to “jump” to the left or right when … Read article “#4: Forcing Scrollbars: Eliminating “Horizontal Jumps””

I finish up the design in part three of this series on coverting an Adobe Photoshop website mockup into an actual HTML/CSS website. This one focuses on the main content … Read article “#3: Converting a Photoshop Mockup (part 3 of 3)”

In part two of this series on converting a Photoshop mockup to an HTML/CSS Website I continue on with the header/menu section of the site. I change the way in … Read article “#2: Converting a Photoshop Mockup (part 2 of 3)”

In this first-ever video podcast, I start the conversion process of an Adobe Photoshop mockup of a website, into a real live CSS based website. This is pretty rough here … Read article “#1: Converting a Photoshop Mockup (part 1 of 3)”