'Design' Category

How to Speed Up Your Blog

June 22nd, 2006 · Posted in Design, Standards, Tutorials, Links · 0 Comments

Paul at PaulStamatiou.com has written "5 Ways t…

3-Columns in IE: Part 2

March 3rd, 2006 · Posted in Design, CSS, Blogging · 0 Comments

Lara asked if I could provide a little more insight into how I set up the 3-column layout I mentioned in an earlier post. Here’s what Lara wrote:

Disappearing borders on lists in IE

February 13th, 2006 · Posted in CSS, HTML, Links · 0 Comments

I was driving myself crazy with trying to come up with a fix for a problem I was having with my blog’s Wordpress theme not rendering correctly in IE. The problem had to do with borders and background style information on unordered lists in my sidebars. The issue also extended to some post titles not showing their backgrounds or borders in IE either.

Tech Links for 1.29.2006

January 29th, 2006 · Posted in Design, Blogging, Links · 0 Comments

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’ve b…

Free Stock Photo Resource

January 4th, 2006 · Posted in Tools, Graphic · 0 Comments

Everyone who has done any web design has found …

Embed Video Content on a Web Page

January 3rd, 2006 · Posted in Design, HTML, Tutorials · 1 Comment

I was trying to figure out the most effective way of embedding video content directly onto a web page, and was able to finally come up with a solution that worked with the <EMBED> tag. Typically the tag is used in this fashion:


<embed src="[VideoURL]" height="[PixelHeight]" width="[PixelWidth]" pluginspace="PluginURL" />

The Design Process

December 28th, 2005 · Posted in Design, CSS, HTML · 0 Comments

Here is a very interesting article outling the design process, titled “A Design Process Revealed” by Stéphane Deschamps. The author outlines the process in these phases:

Elements of Design

December 22nd, 2005 · Posted in Design · 0 Comments

Nick Mullen at SitePoint has an article, “Cool Web Design Effects Tutorials”, covering the elements of design and what they mean for web design in general. Here are the elements he lists: