Web Design, Web Design - Advanced

jQuery Sliders

Slide or fade content and images.

Why this site looks best in Firefox (at the moment)

In a refrain sure to cause trouble for mere mortals — or perhaps to help us immensely(!) — one industry leading web designer after another stepped up to the podium at An Event Apart, Boston to reinforce the following points:

Web Designers’ Summer Challenge

Interested in growing your web design skills? Here are a few choice recommendations.

Add a Favicon to your Website

Add a Favicon to your Website — About.com Learn what a favicon is and the basic steps of how to do it. Generate Your Favicon Online A great, easy-to-use online favicon generator. Create it, download it, then upload it to your site. Once it’s uploaded, display it by placing this link in the head of [...]

CSS Attribute Selectors

CSS 3 Selectors That Work Right Now Includes quick, easy examples of attribute selectors. What is a CSS Attribute Selector? — About.com Another basic overview of attribute selectors. Cascading Style Sheets 2 Attribute Selectors — About.com A list of the CSS2 attributes that work now, before CSS3 works. :) CSS Selectors — About.com A cool [...]

Photoshop: Paths, Brush, and Pen

Serving up some Photoshop fun: three recent tutorials.

New Web Design Resources Page

Check out our new Web Design Resources Page, which I’ll be building throughout the semester. It includes code snippets and other resources.

Style Your Site

For those of you eager to start styling your websites with great Photoshop effects, here are three choice tutorials: Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch A fantastic tutorial, with lots of carryover value. Design an entire site with elegance, simplicity, and beauty. Web 2.0 Design Kit How to create those little 2.0 touches: [...]

Color-Schemer’s Toolkit

Whether you’re a color-geek or color-challenged (like me), there are a number of great tools out there to help you find and refine a color scheme. Here are a few of the best: Color Blender Dial in a color, and it generates a scheme of corresponding colors, complete with RGB and Hex values for plugging [...]