Articles posted in January 2007

Beating CSS Bloat

After a hearty festive period I need to trim down my belly. Whilst I'm at it I might as well trim down a few CSS files. Read more

Controlling font size using CSS

CSS offers designers a great deal of control over text and has good browser support. Many web designers overlook Typography, a crucial element of design. This article looks at a best practice method for controlling font size on your website. Read more

Contact details in one click

At some stage everyone has laboriously copied and pasted contact details from a website into their address book. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just click a graphic and see the details turn up in your address book? Read more

My web typography is awful

Inpired by Robert Bringhurst's "Elements of Typographic Style" I decided to explore the typographic capabilities of CSS further. What I found was that browser support is much better than thought and that my own approach to Typography is woefully lacking. Read more

Photoshop 101 - The Gradient Tool

The Gradient and Paint Bucket tools are both useful gems in Photoshop and can be used to quickly fill in areas as well as create backgrounds for websites. Read more

Book Review: Cascading Style Sheets - Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer's book is a thorough technical guide to the ins and outs of CSS. The book is a classic but won't offer much creative inspiration. What you will find is a thorough technical explanation of the ins and outs of CSS. Read more

10 Usability Techniques

A great looking site is of no use if it is difficult to use. Here are ten techniques to help improve the usability of your site. Read more

Curved boxes in CSS

Curved boxes are straight forward to do in CSS. Here's a quick tutorial of how to achieve curved boxes in CSS and what's to come in CSS 3. Read more

New fonts in Windows Vista

Windows Vista was launched to the retail market today and the new product brings new system fonts that can be accessed from the CSS friendly Internet Explorer 7. Read more

Book Review: Don’t Make Me Think - Steve Krug

Don't Make Me Think is a solid dose of common sense at a time when hype is back on the Web Design menu. It is a gem of a book that tells you what you already know but too often overlook. Read more

Wallpaper for websites

Here's a quick look about how you can give your site some wallpaper. Whilst you are moving the furniture around there is also some traditional wallpaper design for inspiration. Read more