Web Design
Web design is the daily occupation of our bloggers and also the audience to which our site is tailored. If you work as a web designer, building web sites from HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP, JavScript, or other programming languages, watch WebDevNews and Attackr for regular updates of new developments in the industry, as well as for tutorials, tips and tricks, and product reviews from our experts. Better yet, if you are working as a web designer, sign up for an account to WebDevNews or Attackr and post your insights on the sites. From Open Source software to latest products and platforms from Adobe, Microsoft, Google, and other IT companies, we keep you in touch with what is new and innovative in web design.
Written by sumanasa |
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Featured, Web Design
Here’s the recipe for cooking up a brand new theme for your wordpress blog: Ingredients: 1 Header Menu 1-2 Sidebar(s) 1 Main content area 1 Footer 2-3 Nice fonts 3-4 Pleasing colors 5-6 High quality background images and icons Method: If you are an expert programmer in XHTML, PHP and CSS and have good design [...]
I get asked a lot, especially on the Web Connect forum and jQuery mailing list, about Ajax (not AJAX, thank you) file uploads. The XHR object in javascript cannot access file uploads, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give your users an Ajax-like experience. Here are some options and their corresponding back end languages. [...]
You are about to launch your website. Your designer has created a great design for your site or you decided to use a free XHTML template and customized it to your liking. You think you are ready to start making money from your site. If only it was that simple. So what do you need [...]
Written by Karen |
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Featured, Web Design
One of the reasons accessibility in web design is so important is because a large percentage of seniors are surfing the web. The baby boomers are approaching or are in their sixties and about 75% of them are surfing the web to get information about health issues in particular and they are also shopping big [...]
Written by JeremyD |
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Featured, Web Design
Ask some web designers about Dreamweaver and most will tell you that anyone using it is a web design noob that wouldn’t last a minute without their precious little WYSIWYG editor. Well I’m here to say they’re dead wrong. Sure, there’s tons of people out there that got ahold of the program and created a [...]
Written by JeremyD |
Monday, February 12th, 2007
Featured, Soap Box, Web Design
A while back I read an article that compared IE7 and Firefox 2 shortly after their releases. I liked the way it was done, but I’d wished that they’d included another popular browser, Opera. So since they didn’t, I am. Comments would be much appreciated. Please note that this article is a work in progress. [...]
Written by kirby145 |
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Tips & Tricks, Web Design
Web design would be nothing to where it is at now without graphics. Many designs use either photos or digital content, often a mixture of both. It is important to try to experiment with photo type web design. If you are new to photography, like the author, you should try taking some pictures. Take pictures [...]
Written by Brandon Wood |
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Featured, Web Design
The choice of font is an important part of the web design process. It conveys something about the “feel” of your site just as much as your choice of colors. Choosing the right font (or combination of fonts) will make your content stand out and naturally draw your readers’ attention. Choosing the wrong font, on [...]
Written by Karen |
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Featured, Web Design
Creating web graphics with decorative and dingbat fonts is one of my favorite pastimes. I get a lot of my fonts from dafont.com and I use them for hours and hours of creative fun. Example 1 Example 2 Here’s how to create flower images like the examples above. Using PhotoImpact, (or your favorite graphics program) [...]
Written by Etomite UK |
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Content Management, Web Design
Ok, so you’ve heard about Etomite, but how do you install it? Well I’m the guy to ask, as I’m one of the admins over at the Etomite website. Firstly, make sure that you have created a database on your web-space – and assigned a user the correct privileges to use the database (all). Secondly, [...]
Written by DENiAL |
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Featured, Tips & Tricks, Web Design
Just a couple of weeks ago I posed a question on my most frequented forum. The question was what to do when your in that rut. In my case, the rut I was talking about, was the lack of creativity. Meaning all my designs where starting to look the same, and lack that inspired flare, [...]
Written by Karen |
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
Featured, Web Design
Although the content that your website has is far more important than the layout and design, the colors on your website can make a difference to visitors who are more likely to stay if your color palette is easy on the eyes. Picking colors that compliment each other is simpler than you think using free [...]
Written by TechZ |
Monday, November 27th, 2006
Featured, Soap Box, Web Design
It popped into my head all of a sudden, what misconceptions are out there about Bloggers & Blogging? I did a quick Google, nothing really covered what I was thinking. I’m really looking at feedback in this post as I’ve only got a little to go on in this area, so please comment! Let’s start [...]
Written by zeroSignal |
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Featured, Web Design
NOTE: This hack only works in Internet Explorer 5.5 and newer. Older browsers will continue to display PNGs incorrectly. Every single web designer out there has moved on to PNGs for the flexibility they offer. One of the most important features ofPNGs is transparency – it allows a designer to have nice effects on their [...]
Social services and blogs are part of modern internet. Many blogs have special buttons in every post which give readers an ability to add the post to their favorite service. Almost every blog platform have plugins which add a lot of such buttons to posts. There are just one problem with those plugins – they [...]
It’s not just my opinion that firefox is a great browser. Almost every top list of internet products contains it. It becomes better than IE right after installation. With all that you can make it much better because of a lot of great plugins. That applies not just to web development but to simple browsing [...]
Color is all around us. It is such a big part of our lives, that we take it for granted. However, even if we don’t realize it, color has a huge influence on our emotions and our behavior. Same with web design. If you choose your colors right, you’ll get a result that is more [...]
Written by Sean |
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
CSS, Featured, Web Design
In a recent discussion over at OWD a new designer was wondering what they could do to clean up some of their style sheet and site code. I offered a few suggestions on how to optimize the style sheet, which in the grand scheme of things can help increase load times for your site and [...]
Written by Mike Yarmish |
Monday, August 21st, 2006
Featured, Marketing, Web Design
If you design open source templates, of course you want them to be downloaded and used by other people. You can just upload them to your own site but in most cases they won’t be downloaded a lot of times. Probably the site is not so popular. There are some exclusions like Andreas Viklund’s site [...]
Written by Matt Deasy |
Saturday, August 19th, 2006
Tips & Tricks, Web Design
When designing a web page it’s easy to get lost in the glamor of glamerous logos, decorated links, and elaborate navigation bars. Depending on what the customer (or you) want, some of these things can be good. Just remember, if unhappy, return to the basics. Some of these include… Content, Content, Content Sometimes considered the [...]
