Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

Are you still designing web sites like it’s 1999? If so, you’re in for a surprise. Since the last edition of this book appeared five years ago, there has been a major climate change with regard to web standards. Designers are no longer using (X)HTML as a design tool, but as a means of defining the meaning and structure of content. Cascading Style Sheets are no longer just something interesting to tinker with, but rather a reliable method for handling all matters of presentation.

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WEB Design: E-Commerce (Icons) Reviews

In this latest addition to the “Web Design” series, we explore the very best of electronic commerce website design.

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An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS

Have you ever heard the phrase “Content is King”? Being a Web developer, and therefore having a job that’s often linked to content creation, it’s likely you have. It’s a fairly overused but true statement about what draws visitors to a site.

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The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design

Since the dawn of the Internet, the demand for good design has continued to skyrocket. From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and beyond, designers have remained on their toes as they define the trends and expectations of our online universe.

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Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript

HTML has been on a wild ride. Sure, HTML started as a mere markup language, but more recently HTML’s put on some major muscle. Now we’ve got a language tuned for building web applications with Web storage, 2D drawing, offline support, sockets and threads, and more. And to speak this language you’ve got to go beyond HTML5 markup and into the world of the DOM, events, and JavaScript APIs.

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Google I/O 2010 – Developing With HTML5

Google I/O 2010 – Developing With HTML5 Chrome 201 Mihai Ionescu, Arne Roomann-Kurrik – This session covers the HTML5 APIs available to Google Chrome and Google Chrome OS applications and Google Chrome extensions.

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Creating the Mindset of a Winner in Web Development

No matter what game you’re trying to improve on, be it mother, father, wife, husband, problem solver, or as a web developer or designer, you have to rely on a positive mindset to get you there. Whenever you peruse your local bookstore you’ll see that there are numerous publications that deal with motivational guides, self-help, and self-development. There are so many coming from a vast array of cultures, religions, and doctors of psychology that a shortage on this type material will probably never be a problem. (more…)

200 Marketing Ideas for Your Website

200 Marketing Ideas for Your Website
A study of 2,000 sites reveals 200 best website marketing strategies. Ebook contains 262 website examples, tips & useful links. (more…)

PrefixFree: Break Free From CSS Prefix Hell

This article is the first piece in our new series introducing new, useful and freely available tools and techniques presented and released by active members of the Web design community. Lea Verou is well-known for her experiments with CSS and JavaScript and in this post she presents her recent tool, prefixfree which will hopefully help you break free from the CSS prefix hell. (more…)

Getting The Best Out Of Eclipse For Android Development

Getting into Android development can be quite a challenge, particularly if you’re new to Java or Eclipse or both. Whatever your past experience, you might feel tempted to start working away without checking that you’re making the best use of the IDE. In this article, we’ll go over a few tips, tools and resources that can maximize Eclipse’s usefulness and hopefully save you a few headaches. You might of course already be familiar with some (or all) of them and even be aware of others that we haven’t covered. If so, please do feel free to mention them. (more…)