Let’s Get Inspired — Pumpkin Carving Halloween Card
Wednesday October 31, 2012
Pumpkin Carving Halloween Card
HTML5 makes it easy to create fun applications like this Pumpkin Carving ecard. Be sure to click through to see the site itself. Have a Happy ... Read More
Halloween Should Be Scary—Web Design Should Not
Tuesday October 30, 2012
Tomorrow is Halloween and you might be planning (or already have) a big Halloween styled theme for your site. When I worked at Netcom, I designed a "Haunted Homeport" with ... Read More
Blogging is a Great Way to Get a Website Up Quickly
Monday October 29, 2012
I run several websites and I've looked at a lot of different CMS tools, and for most of my clients I keep coming back to blogging software as a way ... Read More
You Know You're a Slave to Web Design When…
Friday October 26, 2012
I had to laugh when I read "Indoorsman"'s response to this sentence. You know you're a slave to web design when a friend calls and says "dude, are you alive?" ... Read More
CSS is Fashion or is it? Yes, it is.
Thursday October 25, 2012
Yesterday, the PBS Idea Channel posted a video Is CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?. I have to agree, although if you had told me 10 years ago that ... Read More
Poll: Do you use pseudo-elements or pseudo-classes in your CSS?
Thursday October 25, 2012
Pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements were added to CSS in version 2.1 and even more were added in CSS3. These style selectors are a way to give you more flexibility in what ... Read More
Let’s Get Inspired — PrimeMovers Pilates Solutions Contact Us Form
Wednesday October 24, 2012
PrimeMovers Pilates Solutions Contact Us Form
Forms may not be the most interesting part of a web page, but they can be very important. This site's form design is very ... Read More
Another Cookbook, This Time HTML5
Tuesday October 23, 2012
Cookbooks for food strike terror in my heart. In fact, most of my friends and family would agree that combining me and a cookbook is not a good combo. But ... Read More
PNG Nine Years Later
Monday October 22, 2012
PNG Logo
The PNG specification is nearly nine years old (it was made a W3C recommendation on November 10, 2003) and it has gained a lot of traction since that time. ... Read More
Photos of people engage your readers
Friday October 19, 2012
Photos are a great way to enhance almost any website, and photos of people are especially compelling because everyone relates to them. Even if the "person" in your photo is ... Read More
Apologies for the bad poll this morning
Thursday October 18, 2012
This is a case where using a CMS can come back and bite you on the butt, especially when your CMS has issues.
The About.com polling tool does not have any ... Read More
Poll: How much coffee do you drink?
Thursday October 18, 2012
I was reading this article on io9 the other day about coffee consumption among business professionals. In it they listed the 15 heaviest coffee drinkers by profession (in the United ... Read More
Let’s Get Inspired — Landscapists
Wednesday October 17, 2012
Landscapists
This is a beautifully designed HTML5 website that works well as a photo gallery for displaying multiple artists (as it does) or multiple themes. I also just love ... Read More
Play can hide learning
Tuesday October 16, 2012
One of the fun things about this book is how, well, fun it is. The sarcastic jibes and the humorous photos make the fact that you're learning something much less ... Read More
Learn to Style Text for Kindle
Monday October 15, 2012
Most Kindle books are primarily text, so understanding how to format the text is helpful for creating a book that is legible in most Kindle readers. This article helps you ... Read More
Poll: Do you peek at the source of other websites?
Thursday October 11, 2012
Viewing the source of a web page is a time honored tradition among web developers. When you see something cool, the first thing to do is look under the hood ... Read More
Let’s Get Inspired — The Google Puzzle
Wednesday October 10, 2012
The Google Puzzle Home Page
Here is an example of an HTML5 interactive puzzle app that uses both HTML5 features and web browser features (like multiple windows). The design ... Read More
It Says CSS3, but It's Great for Learning All CSS
Tuesday October 9, 2012
One of the challenges of learning web development is that the languages keep evolving. CSS3 is just the most recent version of the CSS language. This book is a great ... Read More
Don’t Toss Out a Web Designer with a Bad Contract - Negotiate a Better One
Monday October 8, 2012
A while ago I was asked to help someone find a new web designer because the one he was working with had sent him a contract he wasn't willing to ... Read More
Using a DOCTYPE is a simple way to improve your web pages
Friday October 5, 2012
By using a DOCTYPE (sometimes called a DTD) on your HTML, you are telling the browser what type of HTML you plan on delivering. And the HTML5 DOCTYPE isn't even ... Read More
Poll: What type of ebooks do you prefer to read (first choice)?
Thursday October 4, 2012
Let’s Get Inspired — Johan Reinhold - Heart in a Jar
Wednesday October 3, 2012
First screen of Johan Reinhold website
Johan Reinhold is a pop singer from Sweden, and his website reflects both his current album and the fun, quirky nature of his ... Read More
A Great Book for Developers
Tuesday October 2, 2012
This is a great book for intermediate web developers looking to improve their websites and start using tools that other professional developers use. You'll learn a lot from this book, ... Read More
Writing for Kindle is Easy if You Know HTML
Monday October 1, 2012
One of the best things about writing ebooks for Kindle Mobi is that if you already know HTML, you have the basics of writing for the Kindle already done. In ... Read More