Posts in the Web Design category

• The future of web design?

  19 April 2007 by Clive Walker

  The Future of Web Design Conference yesterday attempted to answer the question ‘What is the future of web design’? I am not sure that the event produced a definitive answer but it certainly covered a wide range of web design activities that are happening now. In fact, at the end of the day, I was left feeling that ‘web design’ is in itself an inaccurate description these days. That’s mainly because the conference included presentations on such diverse topics as web applications, online branding and identity, Flash, applications for the desktop, XHTML/CSS prototyping, and identifying creative ideas. These all impact on ‘web design’ in one way or another but the terms itself is rather misleading.

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• Glossy Blue - fantastic blog theme

  22 March 2007 by Clive Walker

  I was perusing my Flickr website inspiration photoset and I came across a screenshot of a blog theme that I saved. Sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say 'Wow! That's a great design'.

• What am I - web designer or web developer?

  19 March 2007 by Clive Walker

  I signed up for the Future of Web Design Conference recently and the name badge registration asked whether I was a web designer or web developer. Hmmm. Tricky question.

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• CSS overflow property

  13 March 2007 by Clive Walker

  CSS properties you may not have heard of – 2
  There may be times when your web design layout dictates that the height of all your pages should be the same or very similar. On these occasions, it can be a ‘problem’ if the client presents you with ‘too much’ text or image content so that the page height is larger than desired. What to do? Change the layout or come up with some clever DOM scripting to show page content?

• CSS properties you may not have heard of - 1

  23 February 2007 by Clive Walker

  Every so often (well, actually, quite often), I ‘discover’ a new CSS property that I have not used before. Here’s one. The first-line pseudo-element may be used to add a different style to the first line of text of an element.

• CSS is easier than tables for web page layout

  20 February 2007 by Clive Walker

  I have reached the conclusion¹ that using CSS for web page layout is easier than using tables.

• How to make double borders with CSS

  22 January 2007 by Clive Walker

  When you have a website deadline, it’s quite easy to fall into the ‘trap’ of sticking with tried and tested cascading style sheet (CSS) methods that you know and love. However, it can also be useful to try out CSS properties that you are not so familiar with. For me, this used to be the case with the border property. I used solid borders almost exclusively until I discovered that there were other possibilities including double borders [Ed: you need to get out more].

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• Web development books for 2007

  22 December 2006 by Clive Walker

  Books that I'm looking forward to reading in 2007: Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith. As a follow-up to DOM Scripting, this should be a clear and insightful read

• Use more than one CSS class

  21 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  With CSS, it’s possible to use more than one class on any (X)HTML element. This is a useful technique that can help avoid CSS style sheet bloat. Here’s an example that I used recently.

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• How to X-ray your webpage

  13 November 2006 by Clive Walker

  Here's a nice extension (sorry, add-on) to Firefox that I find really useful. It's called X-Ray by Stuart Robertson