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 »

So what is sIFR? Scalable Inman Flash Replacement is a Flash based module for presenting fonts the way the author intended. Not only that, sIFR allows the developer to use any font they desire. This solves the limitations of XHTML/CSS in that the developer is not limited to the fonts found on the users system. On top of that, there is no guarantee the fonts will looks the same across platforms or browsers. 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 »

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 »

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 »