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),…
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 understand unity -
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…
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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 CAPTCHA -

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 HTML Forms -
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…