More and more often nowadays I am finding the need to create dotted or dashed lines in my Photoshop mockups, but what is a ten second job in CSS, could turn out to be a ten minute job in Photoshop if you don't know how to do so easily. Before I came across the trick...
Now to many people this might be a really simple concept, that is the concept of using absolute and relative positioning; but I remember when I started web design I wasn't really sure what either meant. So this article is aimed at explaining why you might want to use the two properties in conjunction with...
Full adoption of HTML5 is just round the corner, and with more and more browser-vendors making HTML5 top-priority these days, it's time, I think, we should take a look at some of the cool things we can do with the new <canvas> element. So what is it? Well although I don't profess to be an...
So what do I mean when I say element organization? Well put simply I'm referring to the way in which we group HTML elements in terms of either tables, divs or HTML5. Now to be honest I believe that tables these days are somewhat obsolete and I wouldn't even bother teaching it to new web...
Some of you might be wondering what I mean by the [...], well I am of course referring to the symbol generated by WordPress upon calling the function the_excerpt(). Now personally I really dislike the symbol which is generated as it often doesn't fit with my design, and I always prefer to have an ellipse...
A common question from new web designers is how to make a div 100% of the browser window, many people complain that there is always some sort of border around their div, preventing them from making their element the full width of the browser window. The answer to this? Simple. Use a CSS reset. But...
jQuery is packed full of useful features that help you to "write less, do more" as their slogan says. One thing I have found over the years, when working with JavaScript, is the need to know what state an object is in. By that I mean wanting to know whether an information box is open...
I would like to introduce you to PHP. If you aren't already using PHP on your site, you should be! PHP is an easy way of generating dynamic content and interacting with all sorts of things, from the server, to the user, right back to databases. In past tutorials I've used PHP without first explaining...
Something that is very important on the web today is how fast our websites load, and alongside script optimization and other fancy tricks, images are a large part of our sites, and so it's important that they are optimized for the web. However what if we don't have control over the size of the images,...
If you would have asked me 6 month ago what I thought of Javascript, I would have told you I thought it was a precarious language which never worked for me - and that's coming from a semi-programmer! To me the language was cumbersome and seemed like it was cobbled together in a very short time...
I remember a few months back when I was faced with a dilemma, what hosting company should I go with for a certain client. I have had experience with some cheaper companies and to be honest for the price it isn't bad. However recently I have had problems with slow servers and a lot of...
Never a day goes by when I don't use Google's fantastic emailing service. But did you know that you have access to many different addresses. If your email address is tom@gmail.com, you could give someone the address of tom+jane@gmail.com. Oh my gosh! I know, try to dissipate the hysterics, because although this seems like a waste of your...
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