- 10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know
Here are ten of some of the most underused and misunderstood tags in HTML. While they might be less familiar, they’re still quite useful in certain situations.
Read more at net.tutsplus.com
- 30 Awesome Design Enhancing using jQuery plugins
There is a vast range of ready made jQuery plugins available from generous designers and developers from across the web that can help add stunning functionality and effects to your website. Check out these 30 awesome examples, including content sliders, image galleries, tooltips, accordions, lightboxes and modal windows. Download the pre-built scripts and add the code along with the jQuery framework to quickly and easily enhance your web designs.
Read more at line25.com
- Common mistakes in Web Design
Many rejected templates here on Themeforest suffer from the same few common mistakes: typography (font, line-height, letter-spacing, color), alignment (grid), and spacing (padding). In this tutorial, we are going to take a closer look at how to avoid these common errors.
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- Finding Inspiration
As a designer, I think we all have experienced the hard time of finding new ideas and inspirations. That’s why I’ve chosen to talk about this topic in my presentation at the FOWD conference. In this post, I want to do a recap of my keynotes – Finding Inspiration From Your Environment. Read on to find out how my work habits and environment influence my design.
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- Keeping your content in order of priority with flexible CSS layouts
This article shows you how to use CSS floats to achieve any column layout, while keeping your most important content highest on the page.
The web development community is becoming more and more conscious of the fact that content is king, i.e. how your website looks is of little importance compared to the words you use to deliver your message. But as well as the words used, another crucial but often overlooked issue is the order in which your content appears on the page.
Read more at webdesignfromscratch.com
- The Elements of Typographic Style Appied to the Web
For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers, particularly in body copy. In years gone by this could have been put down to the technology, but now the web has caught up. The advent of much improved browsers, text rendering and high resolution screens, combine to negate technology as an excuse.
Read more at webtypography.net
- Introducing Google Friend Connect!
Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website — and with each other.
Enrich your site–Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.Attract more visitors–Your users can easily invite friends from social networks and contact lists to visit and join your site.
I am using google friend connect you can see it at the bottom of my blog…get yours and join us!
Read more at google.com/friendconnect
- When to Use Graphics in Web Design
In this blog post, I urge web designers to view graphics as just one of the tools at their disposal. Content, not graphics, should be the main concern of any web designer.
You should be able to justify the inclusion of each and every image used on a web page, by asking, “Is it more effective and efficient to use this image than to leave it out or use text instead?”.
Read more at Webdesignfromscratch.com
- Typographic Grid
This is not a “framework” or anything, I was just screwing around with typography and getting things to line up according to a strict horizontal and vertical grid. It is inspired by the Compose to a Vertical Rhythm article by Richard Rutter a few years ago, except uses unitless line height.
Read more at css-tricks.com
- Image Rollover Borders That Do Not Change Layout
It’s a fact of CSS life that the ‘border’ of any block level element gets factored into it’s final box size for layout. That means that if you add a border on a hover to an element that didn’t already have a border of that exact size, you will cause a layout shift. It’s one of my pet peeves, for sure, when I see it in final designs. I find those little shifts, even 1 pixel, jarring and awkward.
Read more at css-tricks.com
