Related Blog Posts for 'Web Design'

As the saying goes “information is power”, but that power is useless if you don’t know what to do with it.  Such is the case with the Google keyword tool, that provides you with a decent way to help optimise and target traffic from the search engine at your site.
Is it the answer we have [...]

Today, 4th January 2009, the team at PVII (www.projectseven.com) are announcing the release of  free style themes for their automated menu creation plugin for Adobe Dreamweaver, Pop Menu Magic 2. When it comes to the creation and management of multi-level or single level CSS-based menus, they have created the ultimate tool. Whether you want to [...]

When creating a new layout for your blog, blogspot, or anywhere else, you may want to design a nice CSS styled date block for each entry, rather than to have the publish date in plain text. In doing so though you will most likely hit a buffer pretty fast. The quickest & simplest way [...]

Often SEO advice is provided by non-professionals and well qualified as a bad joke, so who better to take your SEO lead from than Google, the masters of the black art, if for no other reason than for the fact that they rule the search engine market with as much as 80% of the search [...]

So, you have just received JSON data via an AJAX request and you need to loop through, what is effectively an associative array, wrapping every few generated html records in a wider tag set, creating record subsets and allowing you to generate the requisite code for a slider or pager. How do you go about [...]

A dear friend and great game, icon and all round designer, Marcus Conge, has just released his update to the Adobe Creative suite 4 icon set. Drawing on the packaging for inspiration he has created some simple, yet definitely more inspired, selection of 17 icons to replace the existing ones, that by anyone’s admission are [...]

If iWeb is designed to make the process of creating web pages easy, then Rage Software’s recently released iWeb SEO tool is designed to make the process of Search Engine Optimization for iWeb easier too.
As those who have been following my articles will know, I have often bemoaned the general joke that is the HTML [...]

Google Analytics tracking code – the little chunk of javascript that  you put on the bottom of the web page -  has been updated sometime in  the past few months. Apparently, if a user had ad blocking software
and/or certain types of security software – they would sometimes get a javascript error.
If you got or updated [...]

With so many cool ways for photographers, graphic and web designers, artists, retailers and many more to put their portfolio online and to show off their work these days it seems criminal not to use something more flashy to help separate your business, services and other offerings from the pack. Here, we provide a [...]

Creating boxes with rounded corners and
fluid dropshadows, both horizontally and vertically, is just about the bane of any web designers life when developing with CSS/XHTML. Once you have found a way that works and is cross-browser compatible you have reached a Zen state.
Okay, well maybe not, but still it’s a pretty joyous [...]

Ever wanted to have super spiffy, quick and easy web form checking, web 2.0 style with AJAX? Well now, with Live Validation, you can set up form validation in 3 quick and VERY simple steps. Here is how …
Where to Begin with Form Validation
For starters you need to have the form created in [...]

Update: Apple has announced a simple copy & paste functionality for embed code produced on many web 2.0 web sites, such as flickr & last.fm with iWeb ‘08, part of the iLife ‘08 suite of applications for OSX. We are as yet to confirm whether there is any templating functionality for embed code within iWeb [...]

Having the need for, and recently come across an article by Mark Schenk on the use of scaled images a a background with CSS, I thought that I would add my 2¢ to the equation as i think he is missing out a couple of points that would be super handy for any casual reader [...]

I am frequently asked by clients to set up a web page where their clients can upload files. These are often design firms who have to share files with printers and viceversa, and although the file transfer protocol was designed for this, it seems that FTP clients are not something that “most” people have, or [...]

One of the first things that any visitors considers doing when they hit your web site is to search. This is all and well if you are running an PHP/MySQL driven web app like OScommerce or Expression Engine, but what if your site runs on static pages like this one? You can’t always rely on [...]

Having been released into the wild, after leaving Last.fm, I have been noticing a lot recently, on many web sites a plethora PHP fatal errors. In this article I take a quick look at a simple 1 line fix to suppressing PHP errors on production web sites.