Blogging Pro had an article last week regarding optimizing CSS files in order to achieve a faster page load. I know a lot of the time removing whitespace can kill a lot of the file size. Of course it makes it difficult to edit later but for production use there are several programs out there to reduce whitespace for you making a smaller file size. Read the rest of this entry »

Cameron Olthuis has a post on his blog regarding his top picks for Web 2.0 designs. It made digg.com and it’s a pretty legitimate post. Since I’ve worked in this industry I’ve seen a difference in traditional design compared to Web 2.0. For my Top 10 I can’t say it would be the same as his. There are so many different sites coming out everyday that some people are exposed to some and some people exposed to others. Read the rest of this entry »

Scott Schiller has a pretty good tutorial on creating rounded corners in CSS. As he says in his post, a lot of people developing Web 2.0 and/or AJAX web applications have created layouts utilizing rounded corners. Read the rest of this entry »

Dynamic Drive has a tutorial on creating AJAX Tabs similar to the ones I have in the portfolio section on my home page. While I didn’t use this script to create them, many sites such as CNN and Yahoo have incorporated this feature. It’s actually a pretty nice way of organizing a lot of content and only sending the content that the user wants to see making the page load faster and less bandwidth hits on your server. Read the rest of this entry »

Vitamin has a post by Cal Henderson for those creating next generation web applications that make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. The main issue is the optimization of the content in order to give users the best possible experience when visiting the website. Read the rest of this entry »

Tom Ashworth has written a great article about web standards on HostReview. The question asked is what are web standards and should a business be compliant? Ashworth goes on to say that web standards are those specified by W3C and specifically the use of tableless layouts via XHTML and CSS. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you that don’t know, Yahoo has a set of open source utilities written in JavaScript. It includes some helpful tools for DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. Many of these tools are used in their applications and are available through their developer network. Read the rest of this entry »

Dynamic Drive has launched a section of their website dedicated to practical CSS codes and examples. The examples shown are similar to the CSS Navigation examples that I had blogged about a couple of weeks ago. It looks like they have a few tutorials but have a long way to go to call it a library, but since the site just launched it is a good starting point for people looking for some CSS tricks. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been hired quite a few times to skin different types of blogs software such as Wordpress. It’s actually pretty easy to do, but does take a little bit of time just because of the number of files that need to be edited to create a template. I recently came across a tutorial on The Undersigned with a pretty good explanation on how to go about creating a template for Wordpress. Read the rest of this entry »

CSS Play has created a font using pixels in CSS. While I wouldn’t use it for the text on the page it’s quite useful for verification purposes. Since a computer couldn’t render it as text the user could. For things like sign up forms this is very useful to prevent any form of spam from hitting your site. Read the rest of this entry »