It has been some time since I’ve last posted, I’ve been far too busy with a project I’ve been working on the past several months, but it’s almost ready and I hope I’ll get back to my weekly posting.
While working at this project, at some point I needed a countdown …

This is certainly one thing a web designer can’t live without, it has been here for years and many developers have even built their own customized reset stylesheets. Though don’t be surprised, there are developers who still haven’t heard of this technique or haven’t found a use for it.
The most …

There’s this great tool I’ve been using lately to check my HTML5 structures and assure myself that all the new elements have been placed correctly and have the necessary headings.
HTML5 requires all the new structural elements to have a heading, now if you’re meeting situations where a heading does not …

Once we have been progressively adopting the HTML5 technology more and more each day lately, the well known “NO MORE DIVs” propaganda took place.
I was surprised to see that “Divless layouts” already got promoted on some template websites, using the new HTML5 structural elements. Is it me, or we’re …

It’s time to talk a bit about some time-saving techniques.
Both graphic and web designers lose precious time rebuilding the same graphic elements, recreating browser form elements, coding the same code blocks, finding doctype syntaxes and what not. Just imagine how much you’d improve your web design workflow by having all …

It’s common to meet situations where you want a dropdown list to be updated depending on a visitor’s input.
Let’s say we have a contact form and we want to list contact names according to the department the visitor selects. Namely, in our case, we’ll have different contact names for the …

If HTML5 is here now, it does not mean that the previously HTML4 built web pages cannot benefit the new technology. In the next few years, HTML5 will change web communication greatly, we’re looking at new indexing methods, more accurate search engine results, richer APIs and web applications, greater accessibility …

Web projects are divided into back-end and front-end work, so web designers don’t have to worry about the “scary” programming, but what about simple presentational websites, where web designers can single-handedly work on, but inevitably get stuck on the contact page.
At that point, most either ask a PHP programmer to …

Comments on blogs are now harshly viewed, both article writers and readers see comments as spam traffic.
I’m not really going to say no to that, since a lot of advertising is being done through blog comments, but not all comments are spam and that’s why bloggers have to be extra …

As I’ve mentioned in the previous article, with some help from Modernizr, CSS3 can be safely applied, at least to some extent. So let’s see it in action!
To break the ice, we’re going to start with the border-radius property, enhance an element for css3-enabled browsers and also ensure the element’s …