Designing for Wordpress: Part Three
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

In part three of this series, we finish up the structure of the site and start diving into the details. The typography is set up, the right sidebar is ...

Designing for Wordpress: Part Two
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

We have WordPress installed, now let's really get our hands dirty and start getting WordPress to do what we want it to do. We start by poking around th...

Designing for Wordpress: Part One
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it. By popular request, we ...

Rounded Corners
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

Here are FIVE different techniques you can use to create rounded corners for boxes on a website. There are always different ways to do things with CSS ...

Conditional Stylesheets
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

Internet Explorer provides a way to target CSS styling information specifically for its different versions. These "conditional stylesheets" are the bes...

Cutting Clipping Paths
Category: Others > Photoshop      Posted: 23 Jun 09

We're back in Photoshop this week because I wanted to talk a little bit about a very specific skill that I think is important for all designers. That i...

Walkthrough of Contact Form
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

In some ways, the Contact Form is the "Hello, World!" application of web designers and web developers. It is nothing that hasn't been done before a mil...

Introduction to jQuery
Category: Web Development > Javascript      Posted: 23 Jun 09

The popular JavaScript library jQuery is an amazing way to extend the design possibilities of your site beyond what CSS can do. But luckily, if you are...

Designing a Unique Page for Twitter Updates
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

This week I take you through the creation of simple webpage to display your recent 'Tweets' from Twitter from start to finish. This covers the design i...

Introduction to the Band Website Template
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

I have recently released a side project called the Band Website Template. This is just a quick tour of it, explaining why it was built and why I think ...

Sliding Doors Button
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

While sliding doors is far from a new concept and will be obsoleted once we see wider support for multiple backgrounds (CSS3), it is still a good one f...

Creating the Photoshop Mockup - II
Category: Others > Photoshop      Posted: 23 Jun 09

There has been LOTS of great feedback on the first series of Converting a Photoshop Mockup into HTML/CSS. So let's do it again! Every website is different will require different conversion techniques so there will be plenty to learn this time around that will be different from last time. The mockup w...