Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2010
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them...
Comics of the Week #36
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published,...
Guest on jQuery Podcast
I had the honor of being on the jQuery Podcast #30 with Ralph Whitbeck and Doug Neiner. We talk about some of the different parts of CSS-Tricks, the jQuery conference, and the difference between designer and developers. We also talk about my new job at Wufoo and specifically the Wufoo API jQuery plu...
Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In
Recently I released a WordPress plugin for Google Analytics that adds a tracking code and dozens of various pieces of meta data to blogs. Since the release of version 4, I've updated it 6 times, to the point where it's now at version 4.0.6. In this article I would like to share with you...
Worldy Inspiration from Tourism Websites
The tourism industry can be a major source of revenue for a country and in some cases, it can even be its main source or revenue. That’s one of the main reasons why web design for this field plays such a vital role in promoting and attracting potential tourists from other parts of the world. I...
Line25 Sites of the Week for July 30th 2010
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Made By Water, New Adventures in Web Design, Wez Maynard, Digitallabs and Billy Tamplin. Made By Water View the w...
How to Use CakePHP’s Access Control Lists
If you’re building a CMS, you’ll probably need different user roles—superusers, admins, users—with different permission levels. Too complicated to code? Enter CakePHP’s ACL (Access Control Lists). With the right setup, you’ll be checking user permissions with just...
CSS Run-in Display Value
CSS has a value for the display attribute called run-in. It’s like this: h3 { display: run-in; } The point is to allow a header to run into text below it, without sacrificing semantics or running into the problems you might run into trying to force it with other layout techniques. Let’s...
30+ Places to Submit Your Website Designs
Sometimes you finish a web design project and you’re really proud of the results. Maybe it’s a personal project, or the client gave you complete creative control. Whatever the case, you know it’s some of the best work you’ve ever done, and you want the world to see it. Besi...
Incredible Services and Products
Okay, okay; this may be a thank you posting for the wonderful sponsors of our massive HTML5 competition, however, it’s important for me to note that I refused to accept sponsors of any product that I didn’t honestly feel was fantastic. What this means is that, as the editor of Nettuts+,...
CSS: Noob to Ninja – The Complete Video Series
This exclusive premium video series will take you from a state of absolute CSS “noobness,” all the way up to ninja-status, capable of taking advantage of the latest CSS3 techniques. The series begins with the basics: the syntax, properties, etc. However, each new video expands upon the previous,...
Interviewed on Unmatched Style Podcast
The crew from Unmatched Style are the folks that run ConvergeSE which I was lucky enough to attend this year. They are really great folks! While I was down there, I was interviewed by Gene for their podcast. Thanks to Gene for having me! I really recommend to everyone to check out Unmatched Style. A...
Free Ticket to FITC San Francisco
I have a free FITC San Francisco to give away. To get it: you just need to enter a comment in this post before August 6, 2010 and the winner will be selected randomly. The event will take place in San Francisco between Aug 17th to 19th. If you are getting the tickets, use coupon [...]...
Creating a Stylish Blog Design Layout in Photoshop
One of my current projects is a redesign of my personal blog over at ChrisSpooner.com. The aim is to move away from the current fun and cartoony theme and give it a more sophisticated, minimal and stylish design. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to create a blog design walkthrough. Th...
Line25 Sites of the Week for July 23rd 2010
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Box.net, Hugs for Monsters, Andrew Reifman, Metaset and Larissa Meek. Box.net View the website Hugs for Monsters...
Interview With ZURB
For those of you who been reading my blog should be familiar with ZURB. They are the guys who created those fantastic web apps — Bounce, Notable, and Verify. If you read online tutorials a lot, you may have probably stumbled upon their Playground before where they post various CSS and Javascri...
What Do You Think About Flash Now? Comment and Win
Some people hate it, some people love it, but undoubtedly it is preferred in a wide variety of situations, from banners and online videos to rich internet applications. I’m talking about Flash of course. Take the comic strip below as an example. It was animated with BannerSnack and output as a...
