 Hundreds Of Tutorials |
Developer News |
| Unique Gadget Videos |
Tons of Topics to Discuss |
| Expert Advice |
We Will Publish Your Articles |
I have a lot of web design books – I mean a lot. I’ve been collecting them since I started Red Kite in 2005, and I thought this would be a great place to share which ones have been most useful to me as a designer and developer.
Even though things change very rapidly in the [...]
Today, I will be showing you how to create a 50% transparent bounding box for your content. This is a good alternative to using transparent PNG. Both this technique and the png will require a hack in the CSS coding to display correctly.
To begin, we need to build our CSS code. [...]
Last week I showed you how to create a custom rollover only using one image. Today, I am going to show you how to create a shadow box for content without using any images. The human eye naturally blends like colors together, so using that now, we will create an optical [...]
There are many nice text effects possible with CSS. Some can be quite dreamy and surreal in nature when used in the correct context. Like this example, a gradient text, see the picture below:
This is great for page headings particularly on design orientated sites. There is no need to create the image with the gradient [...]
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. [...]
Captchas are currently the best way to protect sites from bots. If you have signed up for any site, or filled out any form on the web recently, you most likely ran into a captcha. For those who don’t know what a captcha is, here is a brief explaination of what they are. [...]
This is something that we haven’t done on the site in a while, so I thought we would do it again. A book review, and today we are going to be reviewing two books. Both are from O’Reilly, who if you have been a programmer for a while, is very popular for their [...]
Google has became famous for their APIs that they create. There are APIs for everything, Google Maps, Google Search, the famous Google Adsense, and even Picasa has APIs. Google recently released Google Friend Connect.
How much does design actually effect your users? Believe it or not, design effects your site more then you think, even the smallest change in design effects it. I was recently listening to Marissa Mayer’s keynote from Google IO 2008 and found some of the information she pointed out very interesting. (If [...]
Submit Your Article
