jQPad | An iPad Web Development Framework

jQPad is a free iPad web development framework. It’s available for download from code.google.com. Definitely worth taking a look if you are doing web development for the iPad. Continue Reading »

Best Practices For Positioning Icons With CSS

In my opinion, icons are one of the small details that help polish an excellent website. However, it can be all-for-not if they aren’t positioned properly in your layout. In this post, I’m going to outline a few best practices for positioning your icons using CSS. Continue Reading »

CSS3 Questions Answered

This is the first post in a new series that aims to help you, the reader, with your web design problems. To start it off, I’m asking you to submit any questions your might have about CSS3. Whether you’re interested in browser support, new selectors, properties, or anything else, feel free to post your question below. Continue Reading »

20 Most Useful Scripts From CodeCanyon.net

Have you heard of codecanyon.net? It’s another great stock website from the people at envato.com. Codecanyon.com is an awesome source for Javascript, PHP, .NET, and Plugin code, at super reasonable prices. Below is a list of the 20 must useful code snippets on the website.
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Photoshop To HTML

Are you familar with rockablepress.com? They’re a book company, from the good people at envato.com, specializing in Web Design books. They just released their latest book titled Photoshop to HTML, which is a guide to taking your website designs from Photoshop to HTML.
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Unsupported Tags In HTML5

I’ve been planning on writing some posts on HTML5 for awhile now. To kick it off, I thought I would post a simple list of tags that are no longer supported in HTML5. Included in the list are a number of fairly common tags like <font></font> and <center></center>. However, if you’ve been keeping your CSS up to date, you should have stopped using these tags already. To help ease the pain, I’ll try and recommend an alternative solution for all the discontinued tags.
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Creating Text Columns With CSS3

The recommended line length for a paragraph is generally 45-75 characters. With ever-growing monitor sizes, it is a continuing challenge for web designers to create readable copy. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the CSS3 column-count property to create text columns on the fly.
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Using CSS3 font-face To Add Custom Fonts To Your Website

One of the biggest features in CSS3 is the ability to use custom fonts in your web designs. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do just that using the free font Aller Display. Once you have downloaded the file, upload it to your server and note the location.
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Adding An Outline To Your Text Using the CSS3 text-stroke Property

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to add an outline, or stroke, to your text using the CSS3 text-stroke property. Continue Reading »

Creating a Fading Link Transition with CSS3

Thanks to CSS3, Flash is getting more and more unnecessary. Can’t say I’m sorry, as I hate actionscript. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a fading link transition, on mouse over, with CSS3.
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