Posts in the Web Design category

• CSS menu trick

  27 January 2008 by Clive Walker

  Changing the hover state of a link in response to a mouseover event is a common CSS technique.

• New Year's resolutions for web designers and developers

  03 January 2008 by Clive Walker

  I don't usually make New Year resolutions but this year I have made a few freelance web design/development ones for myself.

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• CSS sprite generator

  28 September 2007 by Clive Walker

  CSS background image position properties allow the use of one 'master' image that contains multiple component images instead of separate images. The technique is known as CSS Sprites.

• dConstruct 07 reviewed

  11 September 2007 by Clive Walker

  Last week, I attended dConstruct 2007 which was a web conference in Brighton. I meant to write a review of the day immediately afterwards but regular work took over. Anyway, here are a few quick thoughts on this year’s dConstruct which had the theme of ‘Designing the User Experience’.

• Find unused CSS selectors with a Firefox add-on

  02 August 2007 by Clive Walker

  If you work on several websites at once (it sometime seems like I am doing this all the time) and/or if you inherit a website’s CSS development, it can be tricky to keep a track of your style sheet selectors. Which selectors are used and which have become redundant?

• d.Construct 2007

  31 May 2007 by Clive Walker

  Last year, I attended d.Construct 2006 in Brighton. It was a great conference and particularly convenient for me because I live in the same county. This year, d.Construct 2007 has expanded into a multi-day event with pre-conference workshops and a larger venue.

  The main theme this year is user experience design which will be interesting. It's an area…

• CSS layouts for forms - tips and tricks

  24 May 2007 by Clive Walker

  About a year ago, we replaced some webpage forms that used tables for layout with CSS-based layouts. Here's the blog post about it, CSS layouts for forms. To cut a long story short, we had some problems but eventually adapted this method to give this form.

• Top three newspaper websites

  14 May 2007 by Clive Walker

  Once upon a time, there were rumours that the web would kill off traditional newspaper editions. This has not happened but, over recent years, broadsheet newspaper websites in the UK have started to take the web more and more seriously. This is reflected in their websites which are usually fine examples of how to organise and display a wealth of information and change it on a regular basis. Here's my top three UK newspaper websites.

• CSS floats made easy (well, almost)

  02 May 2007 by Clive Walker

  After working with cascading style sheets for a while, you soon get to realise that floating elements can achieve many things, but the use of the float property also comes with its own problems.

• Web design survey

  26 April 2007 by Clive Walker

  If you are a web designer, why not take the A List Apart Web Design Survey. It only took me a few minutes and your contribution will help provide a snapshot of the web design industry.