Tutorials

• How to Design Buttons to Help Improve Usability

  • 10th September 2009
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  Buttons can play a big part in how visitors interact with a website. They come in varying shapes, sizes and styles but there are a few things to consider when designing buttons: Use of Icons Look and Feel Behaviour Importance … Continue reading →

• 7 Very Simple Tips and Tricks for getting More out of WordPress

  • 27th August 2009
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  WordPress is a very powerful blogging and CMS tool but as with all content management systems it needs tweaking to meet certain needs. Here are seven things you can do to get more out of WordPress with very little effort.

• A Look at Some of the New Selectors Introduced in CSS3

  • 27th July 2009
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  Everyone who has been using CSS is immediately familiar with selectors as they are what is used to target elements on a page and style them. CSS3 brings even more options as far as selecting elements goes. It will allow … Continue reading →

• Create a Button with Hover and Active States using CSS Sprites

  • 21st July 2009
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  Too many designers neglect the click state (active: property in CSS) in web design, either because they’re unaware of it, underestimate the importance of it or are plain lazy. It’s a simple affect that improves usability by giving the user some feedback as to what they’ve clicked on but can also add depth to a design. Continue reading →

• Animate a Contact Us Slide-Out Area using jQuery

  • 14th July 2009
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  Contact us pages are usually boring static pages with a form, not very exciting so what we’re going to do is place the contact us form at the top of the page and create a button that slides out and … Continue reading →

• Go Beyond Web-Safe Fonts with CSS3

  • 2nd July 2009
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  For many years now, web designers have been restricted to using a small number of fonts that are considered ‘web-safe’ due to the dependance of being available on every computer. CSS3 is changing that by introducing a method of using any font. Continue reading →

• Changing the Background Color of a Page using jQuery

  • 16th June 2009
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  I wanted to develop something that would allow the user to change the background of my site but without having to load a separate stylesheet so thats where jQuery comes in. As you will see, jQuery allows you to manipulate html elements through the use of classes defined in CSS and it’s easier than you think. Continue reading →

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