Even when designing with our best intentions toward accessibility, it often takes someone who really uses accessibility software to test the site and help us get the details right. The problem is compounded when dealing with AJAX style behavior. That …
Real-life clients have real-life needs for their websites. They don’t care about your fancy RSS feeds and AJAX, they just want their website to do what they tell you they want it to do. In this screencast I walk through …
Photoshop is my tool of choice in designing for the web. I liken it to choosing the guitar as an instrument to play. A guitar sounds great alone and there are loads of resources to help you learn it. Photoshop …
Creating a completely custom theme for the popular forums software phpBB would be a monster job. Fortunately, to get up and running quickly, we can simply wrap a default installation of phpBB into the skin of an existing site pretty …
There are a handful of CSS attributes that can be combined into a single attribute for coding brevity. I endorse the use of CSS shorthand whenever possible. It saves space and makes code more readable. In this screencast I introduce …
Dealing with domains and hosting and all the server setup stuff isn’t usually the most comfortable stuff for web designers. In this screencast I walk though my regular process and share many little tips of how I like to handle …
FoxyCart is my new favorite eCommerce system. It is extremely easy to get started with. You have full design control over all aspects of it (cart, checkout, receipts). It has the features you need (downloadables, security, saved accounts, subscriptions). Best …
It’s WordPress Week here at CSS-Tricks, so I wanted to so a WordPress-themed screencast and cover a lot of mini-tips that haven’t made it into previous WordPress screencasts. We cover:
CSS Sprites have been a hot topic for a long time now. The fact is that each image on a web page is a separate server request and you can dramatically increase the performance of a page by combining images …
Even more-so than z-index (which we covered a few weeks ago), the float property is known to cause episodes of hair-pulling and monitor-punching. It seems simple enough in theory, but there are plenty of quirks to watch out for. We …
We once did a poll asking people what their favorite CMS was. WordPress was a run-away winner, but also got many comments of “WordPress isn’t a CMS!!“. Well clearly, in the strictest sense, WordPress is a CMS as …
Z-index can be a little confusing sometimes. In this screencast I attempt to explain how it works, how it’s tied to positioning, some quirks, and some general advice.…
sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a technology that allows you to use any font you wish on your web pages. Long story short, it uses JavaScript to target certain text page elements and replace them with a block of …
Designing a web page that is optimized for the iPhone isn’t rocket science. It’s the same HTML, CSS and JavaScript that you already know. The difference is that browsers and screens do not vary, you know exactly what you are …
Fair warning: this screencast is fairly Mac-specific and I ramble on about all kind of random non-web design related stuff. I introduce the new web app Status that I’ve been working on. Then I show Fluid, which is a Mac …
One of the more efficient ways to handle current navigation highlighting is to give each of your navigation items a unique class name. Then give each page a unique ID on the body element. Then CSS can control what each …
Starting off where we left off last time, we continue exploring the possibilities of jQuery. We revisit some of the old functions and make them do some smarter things. We explore a simple variable and an IF/ELSE statement. Then we …
Google maps, with all the dragging and zooming and satellite view and all, is my mapping service of choice. Google offers an free API for their maps so you can integrate them right onto your site. Set you own default …
I subscribe to the theory that web page redesigns should be evolutionary not revolutionary. Making small changes, tweaks, and upgrades over time leads to a higher quality design than up and redesigning the entire thing on a whim or as …
Designing using alpha-transparent PNGs makes life so much easier and cooler designs possible. As we are all painfully aware, IE 6 and under do not support them. They display… but any areas of alpha transparency get turned into nasty blue-gray …
Using SVG can be very simple, but if you start digging in, there is a lot to know about SVG. In his series you're going to learn why SVG is such an important part of building websites. From why SVG is useful and how to get your hands on it all the way to implementing it as a system and fancy stuff like animating it.
This series will take you from zero to being confident in writing and working with jQuery and JavaScript.
Over 150 videos detailing every step of the redesign process for this very website, as it was in v10 in 2012.
The complete process of designing an artist's website from a mobile-first perspective using WordPress as a CMS.
