What is HTML and CSS?
Building a website takes a lot of work. There is much going on behind the scenes, some of which may sound like an alien language to people not completely versed in web technology. The acronyms HTML and CSS could be some of those things, so I've broken them down into simplified definitions minus all the tech speak.
HTML
What does that stand for? Hypertext Markup Language. So what does that mean? Basically, HTML is a code language which allows a document to be read by your web browser.
0 Comment(s)CSS3 Rounded Corners = Cool
I'm sure I'm not the only web designer who can't wait for CSS3 to become fully supported in all browsers. There is so much in there that will not only pave the way for awesome design, but will make things a bazillion times easier for us. For me, one of the things that stands out the most is the border radius property.
Allow yourself to float on into a dream world where you no longer have to use images or image sprites to achieve this effect. Oh what a wonderful world it would be right?
0 Comment(s)Zen Coding - Super quick HTML!
Wow, cool! A new tool is on the horizon for us designers / front end developers. An exciting tool! It's called Zen Coding, and basically what it does is dramatically speeds up the construction of HTML code by using CSS-like selector syntax.
2 Comment(s)More punch from your headings
While this is not an actual typography guide to headings (these will come later!), it is just a starting point to getting more punch from your website's headings.
1 Comment(s)CSS Descendant Selectors
A major, but often overlooked component of efficient CSS coding is the use of "descendant selectors". Let me show you what I mean with a quick example:
Here is some simple HTML containing paragraphs in 3 different locations.
Let's suppose these paragraphs will have very similar styles, with some minor differences. I've quite often come across style sheets that will use 3 different declarations for each paragraph, with repeated information.
0 Comment(s)Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there.
Isn't it funny that when we are looking to buy a new car, get a new haircut or even look for a coffee that suddenly we start seeing lots of examples?
We start seeing the car we like EVERYWHERE, EVERYONE has the haircut you want and coffee shops are on EVERY corner.
I suppose it's another form of spatial awareness. We choose to tune into things that are important to us.
It's not a phenomenon - it's simply a mental alignment. Those cars are still driving around, people still have that haircut and coffee shops didn't just open because you thought of them.
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