I can't take credit for this idea (lots of people have written about it), but I do have some nice figures to post from a recent change we made on a site that runs with the principle of what we call Converting the Converted. Squeezing more water from
Some of you have asked me if I could publish the php code of the code2css tool that I wrote some months ago for my need. I'm a php noob, so if you find a way to improve the code, thanks to contact me ;)
This post is the source for the most definitive/recent/tested method (in the scope of this blog) of gzipping your CSS when either Apache compression module is not available for use. Note: This post was originally published on June 13th, 2004. It is
Having reviewed Microsoft Expression Web back in June 2006, giving it rating of 3 out of 5, I was glad of the opportunity to have a look over the final release version of the product, to see how well it supports designers in creating sites using CSS
You know those gossipy websites that show photos of celebrities without their makeup and fancy hairstyles? At Sparkplug we have a similar dirty secret -- underneath the sexy exterior and suave feel of our websites lies a series of ugly, puffy, just-
AXE (LYNX) has launched in Japan with all the pop and candy you could imagine. The website is a funny mash of video, branded entertainment and the good old AXE women we are all so used to by now. The lead women on the site are all of western appeara
FreeSwell is the first web development/design agency I can recall that's located on Hawaii. What makes this one take my breath way is the way the background color is so
Rounded corners is one of the most popular and frequently requested CSS techniques even the father of internet Google also launch the rounded corners style markup with her Google Adsense and let users to custom their ads recently. Actually, there are
This is another roundup for online color scheme and palette generators. I categorize these useful tools by scheme, palette and miscellaneous. Choosing a suitable color to a suitable place is extremely important when you design web sites. For example
This CSS tutorial will show you how to display two double-quote images using one blockquote tag. The trick here is apply one background image to blockquote, and then apply another background to the first-letter (pseudo-element) of blockquote.
This generator makes light work of creating ajax-style diagonal stripes for tiled backgrounds. Saves messing about in photoshop. A definite time-saver.
A great list of sites using big background images. It’s one of the simplest things one could possibly add to a site. It’s extremely easy to achieve in CSS and it doesn’t present many problems at all
ClearDock removes the semi-transparent white background from the Mac Dock so the Dock icons are "floating" on top of the desktop picture. It can also change the colors of application triangles and of the Dock background to customize your desktop
In this tutorial you can learn how to create a corporate-looking teaser graphic for a website. In the first part we create a background with nice pattern effect