Archive for the 'Design' Category

The main goal of the article was getting the maximum number of layouts based on the same markup, each with valid CSS and HTML, without hacks nor workaround and a good cross-browser compatibility. The result is a set of 40 layouts that we’ve thought worth sharing.
Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on [...]


List indenting

19Feb06

Listening to the pod casts of Web Essentials 2005 and I heard Eric Meyer giving a live demo of reediting a page and when it came to changing a list he added margin 0 padding 0. The issue is that the spec only says indent. Microsoft Internet Explorer uses Margin to indent and Firefox/Mozilla uses [...]


Michael P. Pierce has put together this excellent, gallery and collection of resources and tools for FavIcons


Make-Believe.org has posted a bookmarklet that renders the syntax of a web page as shades of grey similar to a topographic map. That is as each element is nested it becomes a lighter shade (up to 16 levels). As the background colour is changed the layout of the page is unaffected, unlike ones that add [...]


Dan of SimpleBits has posted an article on The Anatomy of an Icon. He details how he has created icons and he has some collections available for purchase.


Texture

01Aug04

Dave Shea has demonstrated the result of some intersting effects to create textures. Drawing from his experience in the past when stock libraries were limited or expensive. Testures create a different look compare to flat colours to fill a void.

Flat colour and gradients only go so far. It’s nice to have alternatives for filling larger [...]


A more advanced method to prvent hotlinking of images. This prevents bandwidth leakage to other web sites, but still shows your pages when referred directly to the image.

Most web professionals are all too aware of the problems caused by hotlinkers. Leechers. Bandwidth thieves. People who use images hosted on your web server on their own [...]


NameBoy

14Jul04

This site is not just domain name searches or even wildcard matches, but a more comprehensive thesaurus search. If you are looking to find domain names this site is excellent.
It askes for one or two words (given just about every word in the dictionary is taken as a domain name one word search are less [...]


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