HTML5 You Should Start Using Now: Make Awesome Forms

In this post, I will be going over some of the new HTML5 input types that you can start using now. The reason they are so great is they enhance the look and usability of your forms, while gracefully Read more

Creating a Print Stylesheet

It's important to have a print stylesheet for your website in the event a user wants to print an article or content to read offline. They are also useful for websites with online stores, where users may want to Read more

Using GitHub via Command Line for Beginners

GitHub is an amazing tool for web designers, developers, and everyone who speaks code. It’s a free web-based hosting service (with options for premium upgrades) that uses an open source version control system, known as Git. It provides for Read more

Developing Emails for Cross-Browser, Cross-Client Compatibility: Part II

In Part I of this tutorial, I went through the steps of slicing the email within Photoshop before beginning the development. In this tutorial, I will go through the steps of modifying the code for expandability and proper rendering. Read more

Creating Photoshop Actions: Resize large batches of images

Creating Photoshop Actions to Re-size Batches of Images

Let’s say you have a bunch of images in a folder that you want to re-size to a specific dimension. What’s an easy way to do this, other than to manually re-size each and every one in an image editor? Creating a droplet app using Photoshop’s Actions is one efficient way – and the droplet can be reused as many times as you want in the future. Read more

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HTML5 You Should Start Using Now: Make Awesome Forms


In this post, I will be going over some of the new HTML5 input types that you can start using now. The reason they are so great is they enhance the look and usability of your forms, while gracefully degrading for browsers that do not yet support HTML5. Win! Read more

Posted on in Design, Development

Creating a Print Stylesheet

Why should we create print stylesheets?

It’s important to have a print stylesheet for your website in the event a user wants to print an article or content to read offline. They are also useful for websites with online stores, where users may want to print a receipt or an e-ticket. Also, your print stylesheet will apply when a user saves your page as a PDF. Read more

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Common CSS Issues in IE


IE is … a “special” browser. It is the bane of our existence as web designers. However, most of us still have to support IE 7 and 8 at our jobs. If we can master CSS and IE, we can pretty much do anything, like rule the world. Read more

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