Do you ever find yourself sitting in front of Photoshop for hours trying to mock up a decent navigation menu, or searching the web for the most aesthetically pleasing color palettes for your users to click on that doesn’t remind them of McDonalds or a funeral parlor?
Face it, sometimes we all lose our mojo for a moment or two, and then we are forced to validate ourselves not just to the W3C, but also to our website visitors, design clients and portfolio piranhas.
And then we remember that through the general kindness of a group of web designers and/or developers, and through organizations such as The Creative Commons who work to guarantee that kind freedom, we don’t always have to be the Picaso of style sheets.
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Tagged with: css horizontal navigation • css menus • css navigation • css tab designer • css tabs • css vertical navigation • web design
I was browsing the W3C Markup Validation Service entry on Wikipedia awhile back, and came across a very interesting little thing they did. They had the idea of checking a list of some of the most common or popular websites on the internet such as Google, Apple, AOL, MSN, etc.
What I saw back then was relatively surprising to me. What I saw today when I went back to that entry on Wikipedia was even more shocking as they updated their list by nearly double and only had one website to add to the ones that came back valid…
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Tagged with: markup validation • valid css • valid xhtml • validated code • validated websites • w3c
In this article I’ll give you a few tips that have helped me over a bit of time to save a bit of time. The fact that running a website and writing for it as well can require quite a bit of time and dedication, we all need new ways to help us publish and promote our articles quicker.
While this tutorial was written with a focus on the Wordpress CMS, I think any webmaster will be able to take something away with them from it.
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Tagged with: blogging • save time blogging • web development • wordpress • wordpress publishing • wordpress tips • wordpress tutorials
This is a clean Wordpress template capable of displaying large amounts of content without suffering aesthetically nor functionally.
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Tagged with: templates • web design • web development • web templates • website templates • wordpress • wordpress 8.0 templates • wordpress templates
This is a nice collection I’ve put together of both online CSS web applications and desktop applications to assist the web developer with his/her project. Both the CSS veterans and beginners should find these tools useful and at least worth a bookmark or quick download.
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Tagged with: CSS • CSS fonts • css tools • design • web design • web development • web tools • webapplications
All of these feeds come from my own personal RSS subscription list. With these 28 Web Design and/or Web Development related RSS Feeds, you absolutely have an immense amount of resources and quality content automatically delivered to you, and the posts stay nice and fresh.
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Tagged with: design • graphic design • rich site summary • rss • rss feeds • web design • web development
In this article I’ll feature four CSS 2.1/XHTML 1.0 based templates created by me. These templates adhere to current web standards and validate as such by the w3.org. I’ll also teach you exactly how I created these website frameworks. This tutorial would be great for someone who would like a quick and easy way to introduce themselves to CSS/XHTML with the focus being on typical website layouts.
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Tagged with: CSS • css frameworks • CSS templates • CSS wireframes • templates • web design • web development
“The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork!”
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Tagged with: css ebook • free ebook • php ebook • web design • web development • woork handbook
SitePoint announces the all-new online web development reference, including their eagerly anticipated Javascript addition. Not only that, but they also released FireScope. Read this..
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Tagged with: firebug • firefox • firefox addons • firescope • sitepoint • sitepoint tools • web development • webapplications
Japan rocks. All of these designs are Japanese oriented — meaning they are either a clear sign of Japanese influence, or they are created by Japanese webmasters, or both.
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Tagged with: art • CSS • design • japan • japanese design • web design • website design
