Design Tips

Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website

Jan 16, 2007Comments

Huiping Iler has a great article over on Digital Web about the importance and details of having a successful international website.
She makes a good point that users want to feel like you are talking to them and understand them. Now if your target market shares your language and culture then having an international website may [...]

CSS Fluid Layout Tutorial

Jan 15, 2007Comments

NowCSS is a new site that just launched at the beginning of this month and looks to be a great new resource. It is a site dedicated to help you learn HTML and CSS the proper, and professional way with tutorials, code examples, articles, downloads, free layouts, and Wordpress themes.
Creating a CSS Fluid layout [...]

Mootools r.83 Cheat Sheet - Snook.ca

Jan 12, 2007Comments

Just yesterday I posted about how Jonathan Snook was at it again creating a Prototype 1.5.0 Cheat Sheet. Guess what? He’s at it again with a Mootools r.83 Cheat Sheet.
The cheat sheet is color coded to match the four main categories that are in the Mootools download section and within the documentation. [...]

Google Ajax Search API Site Changes

Jan 12, 2007Comments

There have been some changes over on the Google Ajax Search API site. The website has be reorganized including the examples to show different ways to use the Ajax Search API web search(including custom search engine, news search, and blog search), local search, and video search).
There have also been some new code samples added which [...]

Prototype 1.5.0 Cheat Sheet

Jan 11, 2007Comments

Jonathan Snook is at it again creating a new Prototype 1.5.0 Cheat Sheet. He’s gone through and detailed the methods and properties of each of the modules within the Prototype JavaScript library.
With the final release of 1.5.0 coming this is a great time for this new cheat sheet.

First, I’ve included possible parameters. I’ve used [...]

Do Web Standards Matter?

Jan 11, 2007Comments

A controversial question no doubt, based on a controlversial (to some) article over on Modern Life is Rubbish.
Stuart Brown makes a pretty good point though. I find myself at times obsessing over semantically correct markup, even though the site may appear fine across browsers. I hate seeing errors or warnings when I go to [...]