Please feel free to add any other links in the comments below that you think I’ve missed or which you’ve found useful over this past week.
Please feel free to add any in the comments below that you think I’ve missed or which you’ve found useful over this past week.
I visit a lot of other websites because of either word of mouth, RSS feeds or just from browsing the web and I thought it was about time that I started making a note of these and sharing the most useful one’s with the web design community.
So each Wednesday, I’ll be writing a blog post containing useful links and resources that I’ve come across in the previous week.
I must admit that I’m relatively late with getting on the social media bandwagon but have started to get more and more involved with different services recently as I attempt to keep up with the latest trends.
Within this article, I’ll briefly cover which tools I’ve found useful and how I use them both personally and professionally as a web designer.
It goes without saying that accessibility is something that web developers should all be aware of and should all be attempting to reach full compliance with the WAI Guidelines wherever possible.
However, I’m sure that many of you will also have experience of resistence to this from project managers, clients or your direct manager who aren’t interested in supporting the small percentage of blind people out there.
So how can you convince them that they should be embracing accessibility?
It’s something that many people have been asking for and wanting for some time now and finally it looks like variables are going to be making their way into CSS.
I wrote an article some time ago which explained how to create rounded corners using just a single image and CSS. It’s a great solution but imagine if you have multiple boxes and you’d like to use different colours for each box?
Within this tutorial, I’ll explain how you can create multiple rounded boxes using different colours but still using just a single image.
I’m sure by now, everyone has heard about the benefits of separating content (HTML) from the presentational aspect (CSS) of their code and I’ve recently started to put a library of templates together which can be used as a starting point for a variety of CSS designs.
Within this first release, I’ll be using just a single HTML file and depending on which CSS layout file is included, the appearance can be altered easily to give you a basic starting point for a multitude of designs.
Swapping icons on hover is traditionally done using JavaScript but this method requires a lot of unnecessary code and a number of different icons in order to achieve what should be really simple.
However, there is a solution and this tutorial will explain how to apply different hover over icons to an unordered list using CSS Sprites.
It was only a couple of days ago that I posted the news that Microsoft had decided to backtrack on their initial proposal of using the IE7 engine as their default rendering engine and instead IE8 would be using Standards mode by default. However, Microsoft have had a busy week and have actually released IE8 as a beta version this morning.