Zebra-striping rows and columns
If you’re looking for a no nonsense technique for applying zebra-striping to a table using pure CSS, you should check out from .
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Styling a Custom Facebook Tab
Up until now, I was under the impression that you had to do all your styling inline when building a custom Facebook tab. Rejoice! Today I discovered there is another way to do the styling which is way less annoying. Continue Reading »
Envato Birthday Bundle: Over $400 in Envato Files for $20!
If you like a good deal, then I have a doozie for you. The good people over at Envato are celebrating their 4th birthday, by offering an of files from all of their stock websites. You get over $400 worth of files for only $20!. Now that is a pretty sweet deal. There’s only once catch, the offer is only good until Tuesday August 24th. Make sure you head over there now and . 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 »
Photoshop To HTML
Are you familar with ? They’re a book company, from the good people at , specializing in Web Design books. They just released their latest book titled , which is a guide to taking your website designs from Photoshop to HTML.
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Coding an animated news ticker with jquery and CSS
Alright, about time that I’m back with a new post! For this tutorial, I’m going to breakdown creating an animated news ticker using a little jquery and CSS. The tutorial is based on a jquery plugin developed by , and I recently built it into the homepage of . If you head over to textotela.co.uk, you’ll notice there are some instructions on installing this plugin. The problem is (being a beginner at jquery), I had a hard time filling in all the blanks that are not described on his website. Therefore, I thought I would break it down for beginners to make it easier to understand and install.
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O’Reilly books now available in the Apple App Store
I was surfing around the App Store the other day, and to my delight I noticed that is now offering a number of their titles as iPhone/iPod Apps! I’ve been a fan of their books for a little while now (currently I’m reading ), so I was happy to see they had made the jump to the App Store.
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The web design process: part 2
Time for part 2 of 4 in the web design process series. Today I’m going to cover Photoshop comps, reviewing your goals, and coded comps. Check out the overview below to see all the main steps in the design process.
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Overview
» Defining the end goal
» Navigation planning and sitemap
» Hand-drawn rough layout
» Photoshop comps
» Review comps to ensure the end goal has been met
» Coded comps (alpha)
» Dynamic content integration
» Browser testing
» Launch checklist
» Soft launch (beta)
» Launch and promotion
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CSS tips round-up
Below is a list of CSS tips I’ve picked up over the past couple days. Most of them are from one of my favorite web design blogs: . Here you go:
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