I got an email recently that inspired me to post a little reminder about web design: Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius The email detailed the difficult journey a new-to-DOM person was having learning how to walk the DOM…
Author: Nicole Hernandez
The buzz today is that there is a new version of Moveable Type (4 beta) and also a new MT Open Source project happening. The new Moveable Type 4 (MT4) comes complete with a fresh graphical overhaul that really makes it look slick. It looks…
An Excellent article called CSS Best Practices from Evotech.net. Definitely worth bookmarking if you’re new to web design or CSS. I would add a few small things, such as in the ‘Starting with a Clean Slate’ section: Wipe all margins on block elements by setting…
If you have followed along through Step 1, then you have the HorizMenu.psd file to continue with. To refresh your memory, we left off with our HorizMenu looking like this: Now, you may be wondering why that extra space is there at the bottom. Why…
BuzzDash is a site I Stumbled on recently and found to be pretty interesting. I have always enjoyed polls and quizzes, and there are many sites on the net that offer those things. While you can find lots of fun quizzes for your blog readers…
Whether or not it was worth the money, that’s what was spent by Ebay when it recently snatched up the popular web surfing giant. I’ve been a Stumbler for … probably nearly as long as the service has been available. I don’t remember exactly how…
AddThis is a popular tool for bloggers, and it has just gotten a little bit better. You may recognize this familiar style of AddThis widget from your favorite blogs: (not clickable, merely an example) If you are not familiar with what happens when you click…
If you are a Windows Live user, you might enjoy the new release of the Writer Beta 2. This news came out on the Windows Live Writer blog, and talks about a couple of strong features for this new blog posting release. The best features…
The newest buzz is all about the new Google Gears Beta. As I was talking about in a recent article about JavaFX, the big challenge for the moment has been making web applications viewable off-line, but not in the way that JavaFX wants to. The…
There is a new design competition started by the Weblog Tools Collections that has stirred up a little curiosity. This is design, ala CSS Zen Garden style, will ask designers to create styles for the new version of the WordPress Sandbox theme from PlainText.org. That…