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How to make a new avatar with html/CSS
I just made a new avatar, but I only used Photoshop to shave off the grey background to save it as a png with transparent background. A quick post to show you how …
5 Photoshop features I like
I am not a superhero in Photoshop (PS) but I can defend myself. It is a fixed tool in my repertoire. Blog images, banners, icons, image optimization, etc. PS is powerful and it has it all. In this post 5 nice features I became to like..
Posted in Web Design Tagged blending, IE, jpg, layers, optimization, photoshop, png, ps, roundcorners, slices, tips, web design Leave a comment
Clean URLs not just an option ..
First of all Happy New Year! I hope you’ll all have a 2011 full of inspiration and interesting work on the web. A quick post to kick off the New Year. Why are Clean URLs important? And how to set them up painlessly thanks to Apache’s mod_rewrite module.
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The importance of semantic markup and css
Two important rules to get a good design: semantic markup and css! 1. Semantic markup means you apply html in a way that makes sense. In the early days everything was marked up with tables, but was all data presented really tabular? No!
Posted in Web Design Tagged css, css reset, css3, html, layout, semantic markup, SEO, structure, tutorial Leave a comment
New website design
It always takes some time to accept changes, especially when it concerns your website, but I am happy I did it. I used the powerful Thematic Theme Framework on top of WordPress. Now I have a clean integrating of both my blog and my design work (before it were two different websites). As I blog [...]
Sitepoint live courses
This is a great form of learning: videos, reading, forum, live chat sessions. I did the php and js ones, very good materials and sitepoint is expanding rapidly. There is a good offer $ 15 for both html5 and css3. HTML5 has already started but the course material doesn’t run away.
Adding some progressive enhancement
Playing around I disabled CSS and Javascript on my site: Hm.. what’s the problem? Well .. it is presentational stuff that shouldn’t show up in a html-only view. A mobile device user will have to scroll through these image. An iphone would be served better with only text and maybe some small images. Cause? – [...]
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Javascript live
Great course so far. Reading, videos, QA sessions. Really worth 10 bucks. Finally diving into JS! Sitepoint is one of the best resources for web developers out there I think. It has a great podcast, books and newsletters/ articles. This new form of interactive training is quite interesting and given the number of participants I [...]
Original form design
I just stumbled upon this article: “Mad Libs” Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% Quite amazing how a redesign can lead to a greater response. It makes sense though, a lot of forms on the web are boring. Making it a story or apply some creative styling makes it much less cumbersome to submit information. It [...]
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