August 2010
I love pull quotes →
I read a lot, and yet the text that often grabs me when I first glance at a page is not the headline, but the pull quote. This is a small blurb pulled out of the body copy and made to stand out in…
Web Design Software Pick of the Week: CSS Type Set →
It’s easier to view your typography and make changes to it as you watch, and the CSS Type Set helps you do that. You can set one of 10 font families, your font size (in pixels or ems),…
Do you use helvetica? →
Jacci, the Desktop Publishing Guide on About.com posted an interesting blog entry yesterday: What’s a Good Alternative to Helvetica? No Not Arial. Helvetica is so ubiquitous, and it’s virtual…
In order to be a good designer, you need to... →
Unity in design is the proximity of elements to one another. The closer two elements are, the more related they are, and the farther apart they are, the less related they are. But even if you…
Poll: How do you decorate your headlines? →
Decorative headlines are a great way to add visual interest to web pages. You can use CSS properties to decorate headline tags in your document. Many web developers are now using …
Wordless Wednesday - Design Favorites - New View... →
Get your favorite website featured on About.com: Show Off Your Favorite Design.
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Validating Your HTML is Important →
Do you check the spelling of your web content? Do you proofread for grammar errors? Do you check your site for broken links? Many web designers do all these things regularly on their websites, but…
Are you trying to stay up-to-date with HTML? →
Then you should know what tags have been deprecated. These are HTML tags that have been deprecated in HTML 4.01. But even if there are tags that you use a lot in there, there are a lot of …
Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Securimage... →
A CAPTCHA™ is a popular tool for protecting HTML forms from spammers. They work by displaying some type of question that would impossible for a computer to solve, but a person wouldn’t…
Completely Overhauled - Learn to Build and Use... →
I have spent the last few days completely rewriting and updating the entire HTML Forms Tutorial and associated Free HTML Forms Class. You can go through these lessons one day at a time, or faster…
Poll: How big is too big for images on a web page? →
Optimizing images seems less and less important these days as access speeds get higher and higher. And yet slow web pages is still one of the biggest complaints people have about the…
Design Contests and Awards in August →
You can win a $150 Amazon.com gift card or a full copy of Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. Spam Experts has a design contest to create three graphics for wallpaper, Firefox theme, and twitter…
Wordless Wednesday - Design Favorites - Aurora... →
Get your favorite website featured on About.com: Show Off Your Favorite Design.
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Create a Simple Mailto Form →
Mailto forms are a popular way to get simple forms up on websites quickly. They are great because they are so easy to use and require no programming to do - just an email address. But remember that…
April 2010
Ideate iPad App Review - Note Taking Apps for the iPad - Idea Management Apps I http://twurl.nl/2ci46o
KyTekHTMLEditor - iPhone/iPad HTML Editor http://twurl.nl/qz1q48
Markup - iPad HTML Editor http://twurl.nl/fxqxhv
How to Make HTML Forms Work http://twurl.nl/4h4qdu
How to Use HTML 5 to Display Video in Modern Browsers http://twurl.nl/3vgfj7
How to Report Errors on Web Pages http://twurl.nl/bhsrke
What is the Difference Between CSS2 and CSS3 http://twurl.nl/4txlei
Accessible Design Doesn’t Have to Be Ugly http://twurl.nl/8furou
Is Using an RSS Feed Plagiarism? http://twurl.nl/g2gido
How do you know if an hourly charge is reasonable for a Web design? http://twurl.nl/guo62c
March 2010
Choose an SEO Marketing Firm http://twurl.nl/zjqwep
What Web Designers and Web Developers Hate About Project Managers http://twurl.nl/cwew7c
The @page Rule http://twurl.nl/v1fztf
What Web Developers Hate About Web Designers http://twurl.nl/yh8cg2
What Web Designers Hate About Web Developers http://twurl.nl/7zb23t
February 2010
Select a Web Host - Features of a Good Host http://twurl.nl/2l56o8
How Do You Balance Your Time as a Freelancer? http://twurl.nl/1t8vvg
What is Web Content? http://twurl.nl/fbifpl
The 10 Cheapest SSL Certificates http://twurl.nl/k17quq
Legal Pages for Websites http://twurl.nl/g4b8oj
FlexiMenuJS Review http://twurl.nl/qjaikm
Why Are Web Pages So Ugly? http://twurl.nl/8xacyl
What is a Website Wireframe? http://twurl.nl/d0ecb1
Can I Use a Free SSL Certificate for my HTTPs Pages? http://twurl.nl/dlcp1j
How to Get Your Site Name in the Favicon Area http://twurl.nl/xdblcj
January 2010
Before You Add Multimedia to Your Website http://twurl.nl/o14tfp
How to Create a Simple Shopping Cart with PayPal http://twurl.nl/mfryxj
Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours by Jesse Feiler http://twurl.nl/w2onta
Prioritize Your Content and Put Important Stuff First Using CSS Float for Layout http://twurl.nl/ebkx6p
How to Use Web Metrics http://ping.fm/RXyMe
Firing Web Design Clients http://ping.fm/EBn6p
December 2009
Add Symbols to Your Web Page http://twurl.nl/l1ik87
6 Things Your Web Designer Wants You to Understand http://twurl.nl/dxkdxf
Color Stream - iPhone App Review http://twurl.nl/h7kdft
Web Typography Mistakes http://twurl.nl/3hl27f
November 2009
Typography on the Web is About the Little Details http://twurl.nl/dhlzd2