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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
One of the more popular things to do with CSS is to have elements with rounded corners. Some designers have even called this the holy grail of CSS. It is also one of those design elements that give your site a sophisticated and professional look. Most designers will tell you to achieve [...]
By: Derald in CSS, Design, Rounded Corners, Web Development
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
One of the things that we don’t talk about much on DeveloperFox, or in programming that much, is security. Your scripts are only as good as they are secure. A hole in your code could cause you a lot of headaches in the long run. With the possibility of so many security [...]
By: Derald in Design, Java, PHP, Programming, SEO, Web Development
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Over at blog.bug.gd they had an interesting article. They state that Google omits some HTML in order to have their page be fast, and thus a better user experience. Some of the tags that the article points out are the closing tags for the body of the document, and the closing HTML tags. [...]
By: Derald in Design, Google, Programming, W3C
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Is Photoshop too expsensive for you, and you don’t want to go to jail for obtaining a copy via illegal methods? Here is a list of free, as in beer and as in speech, alternatives.
By: Derald in Design, Photoshop, Web Development
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
If you are like myself, you may get the most out of visual learning, and hands on learning. With video tutorials, you can do just that. The other great thing about video tutorials, you not only get one way, but multiple ways to collect the information in the tutorial. Here are [...]
By: Derald in Design, Photoshop, PHP, Web Development
Friday, June 12th, 2009
As designers, if we are truthful, there are some aspects of the job we dread doing, either because they are repetitive, not challenging, or just because we don’t like doing them. Those things can range from making yet another CSS design with rolled corner element or to such things as tweaking font attributes to [...]
By: Derald in CSS, Design, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Java, PHP, Rounded Corners, Web Development
Friday, June 12th, 2009
One of the dreaded things about design and CSS is repeating the same processes all the time. Things such as creating menus or buttons slow down the process of design, and take away from the designers time that can be spent on other parts of the design. Here are five generators that can [...]
By: Derald in CSS, Design, Web Development
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Some times as designers, we don’t think about using tools to make our job easier. Either it is pride, or we are just don’t think about it, but we can benefit from tools. Here are some tools that will make your designer life a lot easier.
By: Derald in CSS, Design, Web Development
Friday, June 5th, 2009
When creating a new design, it is sometimes hard to think of what you actually want to do. At the same time, our creative ideas can be hindered because we have to create a professional looking site. Well here are some comic inspired tutorials which could translate into some professional designs.
By: Derald in Design, Photoshop, PHP, Web Development
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
A little while back we covered some professional Wordpress looking themes. Here are five Wordpress themes that are based on newspapers or magazine layouts.
By: Derald in Design, PHP, Wordpress