Posts in the Web Design category

• CSS tables revisited

  29 October 2010 by Clive Walker

  A couple of years ago, Sitepoint published a book called Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong (reviewed here). The main theme of the book was the use of CSS properties and values like display: table and display: table-cell (see also CSS display property). If you have not come across these before, they allow you to assign table-like behavior to <div> or other elements, such as <p>. In the book, this method is called CSS tables and it seems to be an easy way of achieving grid layouts. Should we be using this method more? Here’s how it works.

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• Five fantastic Firefox extensions you might not know

  13 May 2010 by Clive Walker

  Like many other Firefox users, the large number of Firefox add-ons that extend what I can do with Firefox means that it is my default browser. I probably use many of the add-ons that you know and love but I thought it would be interesting to list a few that are not so well-known… but that I find really useful. In no particular order, here they are:

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• Flowplayer for playing Flash video

  04 May 2010 by Clive Walker

  If you want to embed Flash video on your website, you could do a lot worse than use Flowplayer which is an open source Flash player.

• Websites with left and right arrow keyboard navigation

  05 March 2010 by Clive Walker

  Over the last week or so I have come across several websites that allow users to navigate using the left and right arrow keys. I think this is an interesting approach and I really like this method.

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• Should I use web templates and themes?

  23 February 2010 by Clive Walker

  One thing that I have been pondering recently is whether to use web templates or (WordPress) themes more regularly in web design projects.

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• How to work with an old logo

  17 February 2010 by Clive Walker

  Here's the story: Not so long ago, I was asked to redesign a client's website that, to be frank, was long past its sell-by date.

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• Website case studies are a great way to learn

  27 January 2010 by Clive Walker

  I like to browse a lot of websites with the aim of learning from how others do things. I figure that this is part of my job as a freelance web designer/developer.

• Attribute selectors for image styles

  03 December 2009 by Clive Walker

  I have been reading several articles recently, and reminding myself, about attribute selectors. In case you’re wondering, attribute selectors in your style sheet allow you to style an element based on an attribute and value. This means that you can set-up style rules without the need to add class names to your (X)HTML. Cool! For example, you could style all external links by using a selector that targets the href attribute and matches any href value beginning with “http”.

• Advice for web design freelancers about prices

  26 November 2009 by Clive Walker

  As a freelance web designer/developer, deciding on your pricing structure is pretty important. Get this right and your business has a much better chance of survival… and you might even be able to go on holiday now and again! I think it’s important to review your business regularly and pricing is one part of that. Here are a few tips about pricing from my own experience as a freelancer in the UK.

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• Seeing more clearly with CSS opacity

  09 November 2009 by Clive Walker

  I have been trying to use some different CSS properties in recent style sheets and one of these is the opacity property. It’s quite easy to use and can give you a sophisticated effect where one element shows through another. Hey, what’s not to like!? Unfortunately, we need to apply a few Internet Explorer fixes but they are also relatively easy to implement (even if they look a bit complicated).

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