Picture this: you are building a website and wish to steer clear of the complexity of present day Content Management Systems (due to lack of time and/or other factors). Or, in other words, your website is a rather small entity (that perhaps does not require the collaborative abilities of Wikipedia or the social networking databases of Facebook). Picture this: you are building a website and wish [...]

A List Apart’s Issue #344 went live yesterday with a focus on the recent vendor prefix drama . I didn’t get a chance yet to read the entire Meyer/Tantek interview, but I did read Lea Verou’s piece. First of all, congratulations to Lea for getting published in ALA A List Apart’s Issue #344 went live yesterday with a focus on the recent vendor prefix drama. I didn’t [...]

At the age of 15 I started with this web design stuff. Here I am, almost 7 years later and I wish I knew a lot more about this field rather than learning just by my own mistakes. At the age of 15 I started with this web design stuff. Here I am, almost 7 years later and I wish I knew a lot more about this field rather than learning just by my own mistakes. But you don’t have to pass through [...]

Recently, we published a piece titled 5 Incredibly Useful Tools Built Into Twitter Bootstrap , which took a look at the basic structure of Twitter’s Bootstrap framework and walked you through implementing some of the major components. Twitter just released Bootstrap 2.0 , an update so large it equates to a near full rewrite Recently, we published a piece titled 5 Incredibly Useful Tools [...]

If you’re fairly inexperienced with JavaScript but you’ve used jQuery, then its likely you’ve used callback functions . But maybe you don’t fully understand how they work or how they’re implemented. In this post, which is based on what I’ve learned about callback functions, I’ll try to enlighten you on this fairly common JavaScript technique If you’re [...]

The success of your website depends partly on its presentation. People in the field of designing have little problem, to none at all, dealing with this since most of their works are visual The success of your website depends partly on its presentation. People in the field of designing have little problem, to none at all, dealing with this since most of their works are visual. One way of presenting [...]

I was unsure of what to write about this week and then I remembered that I had been meaning to post something to promote and give away a hard copy of a book that No Starch Press was kind enough to give me for free. Below I’ll give you some simple instructions on how you can win my brand new copy of The Book of Ruby by Huw Collingbourne. You’ll never believe what you have to do to qualify [...]

Whichever website you visit, the first thing that you will notice is the header image of that website. Later on, scrolling down the page or admiring the header image is something that depends on the purpose of your visit. The point is that the header image (or, to be more generic, the header section) is a very important part of any website design Whichever website you visit, the first thing that [...]

Lately there have been a lot of people trying to hire us to create a website for them, others even ask for quotes and present a short plan that they have made. The problem is we’re not a company that will design and develop websites for clients, we’re an internet publisher focused on writing guides, inspirational articles, reviews, and the lot. Lately there have been a lot of people [...]