How to Avoid that Pet Peeves Designers Have With Developers(two)
Designers and developers often seem to come from different planets and have completely different brains.Developers want a website to work right, designers want it to look right.
Useful And Creative Ways To Use WordPress Widgets
If you’ve been reading some of the previous WordPress-related articles, you’ll know that WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. It can be used as a CMS, too. And WordPress widgets are a powerful tool in your WordPress development arsenal.
CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF), a complete listing of all the properties, selectors types and allowed values in the current CSS 3 specification from the W3C. Each property is provided in a section that attempts to match it with the section (module) that it is most actively associated within the W3C specification. Next to each property is a listing of the expected values that that property takes (normal text shows named values it accepts and italics shows value types it will accept).
Synonyms Instead of Stuffing
In August of last year, Google opened up about some refining of their search algorithms, and mentioned a few technologies they implemented to improve search results. These technologies included Spelling Suggestions, Synonyms, Conceptual Context, and Universal Search. You may or may not have seen these changes with your search results, but all have become a big part of searching with Google, and are beneficial in increasing the user’s Google experience. One in particular stands out from the rest, as a useful SEO possibility: Synonyms.
Keeping Up with Changes in Search Engine Optimisation
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the process of making your site more accessible for the search engines. When done correctly, search engine optimisation can drive targeted traffic to your web site and help you increase your profits.
30+ Beautiful Photography Websites
Interest in photography has exploded over the last 10 years, largely thanks to the developments in digital photography. Cameras and computers have become cheaper and more powerful, software more sophistocated and printers can now print photos that are as good (if not better) than anything produced in a chemical darkroom. Now, once you’ve acquired a digital setup, the economic restrictions of film and development costs have been removed and the cost of photography is virtually nil.
Mozilla collecting all web tools together in one directory
If you're a web developer, you'll hopefully be aware that there are many helpful (and free) tools designed to progress your quest for an epic website; the only problem with this, though, is that you have to find them. There is currently no centralized directory for all such tools, but Mozilla's fed up of this, and has set out to build one of their own, according to MoMB.
Common SEO Misconceptions
There are a lot of misconceptions about SEO (search engine optimization) and what it can and cannot do for a website. Hopefully we can clear this up. If you are going to invest your hard earned money into SEO, you should at least know some of the basics, what you’re getting into, how SEO can help, and what you can expect in return. Below are common misconceptions regarding SEO.
5 Ways to Spy on Your Competition
See teh article, How to Create a Huge Keyword List, It suggested to spy on your competition for keyword ideas. Well, now to delve a little further into that topic, and give you some techniques and tools for doing just that.
Learning from your competition is one of the best ways to get keyword suggestions. One of the great things about marketing online, is your competition is right in front of you, and can’t hide everything they’re doing. Here are a few ways to get keyword ideas from your competition:
Web Form Validation: Best Practices and Tutorials
Ideally, users will fill the web form with necessary information and finish their job successfully. However, people often make mistakes. This is where web form validation comes into play. The goal of web form validation is to ensure that the user provided necessary and properly formatted information needed to successfully complete an operation. In this article we will go beyond the validation itself and explore different validation and error feedback techniques, methods and approaches.
HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
XHTML is dead, long live HTML 5! According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop work end of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML 5 instead. And even although HTML 5 won’t be completely supported until 2022, it doesn’t mean that it won’t be widely adopted within the foreseeable future.
CSS and Web Site Design Showcase Sites any Designer MUST Know.
A really great source of inspiration is CSS Gallery and Web site design Repository sites. Looking at the successful work others created is one of the best ways to get ideas and kick start the creative process. This article provides a large compilation of web sites that specialize in collecting great web designs and making them easy to browse. All web sites are presented with screenshots and hope you will easily find the sites that matches your needs.
New Essential CSS 3 Techniques
There are several new and exciting functions and features being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image, etc…
This article presents 7 New CSS3 techniques that every web designer and developer should be aware of. CSS3 for sure will leads to greater flexibility and make effects that was previously complex and difficult to create much easier. Unfortunately it is not currently all the leading browsers that support CSS3. In some cases other techniques are available making our life easier while waiting for CSS3 to break through and these will be briefly covered as well.
Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo
The logo is the face of any brand — the very first impression — so its design is extremely important.
When executed correctly, a logo is a powerful asset to your client’s brand. However, creating an effective visual representation of a brand requires much more than just graphic design.
Like any line of work that involves a set of specific skills, logo design requires plenty of practice and experience for it to be successful; knowledge is definitely power for any graphic designer.
CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
CSS-design is not easy. We need to find work around across browser inconsistencies, not that easy CSS-concepts and quite counterintuitive CSS-solutions.
The new and useful CSS tools, generators and resources that can significantly improve your workflow and reduce your time efforts for CSS-coding. Whether you’re writing, compiling, refining or experimenting with CSS code – or all of the above – these tools can help you get the job done faster and better than ever before.
10 Tools to Improve Your Site’s Usability on a Low Budget
Testing the usability of your site is one of the smartest things you can do. Usability involves making a website’s interface easier to use and simpler to understand, so that the user’s experience is as enjoyable as possible.
Ideas about what makes for the best website design don’t always translate perfectly when put into practice. Elements that one person might consider easy to use may actually turn out to be confusing for someone else.
Link Building Expert Tips
So you want your website or blog to be indexed in Google a bit higher and a bit faster? The best thing you can do regarding this is giving your web presence a boost by adding effective back links from other websites.
Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
Adobe Illustrator is one of the best applications for making graphic artwork like logos, print designs and Web pages. As time goes on, more and more Illustrator techniques are introduced by talented designers and artists in the industry who achieve some of the best results on the Web. One hot trend nowadays is 3D effects. So, we’ve gathered together some 3D tutorials to give you an idea of what Adobe Illustrator offers and how to use its 3D features. This list mixes tutorials for beginners and experts.