Designing for Modern Monitors

July 2nd, 2008

How do you like yours?
A recent post discovered through Smashing Magazine got me thinking about a topic that effects me every day within my line of work. When I started designing websites 2 years ago I was led to believe at the time that sites couldn’t be made any wider than 750px, (780px max) to […]

Firefox 100% Height Bug Fix

May 29th, 2008

Hello
I have to post this because I want to spread the word. I haven’t had this problem for a very long time because of the designs of my sites. But today I’ve been working on rebuilding someone’s site with valid mark-up, and while converting the table-based layout to semantic divs - I encountered the dreaded […]

Creating a Wordpress Theme - Part 3: Functionality

May 9th, 2008

OK folks, here’s the final installment of the hefty ‘create your own wordpress theme’ tuts. What I’m basically going to do to this time is demonstrate a few different small php scripts that bring that ever-important wordpress functionality to your site. I will outline where the different snippets go within your code, and what each […]

Creating a Wordpress Theme - Part 2: Design

April 28th, 2008

We’re Back!
OK folks, here’s part 2 of the 3-part series on creating your own Wordpress theme. To view the first part - Layout, click here.
This tutorial isn’t as long, I’m basically going to create a simple design in Photoshop that I can incorporate into the dimensions I’ve already specified for my theme. As I stated […]

Creating a Reflection Effect

April 25th, 2008

Web 2.0! Web 2.0! Web 2.0! Glossy! Glossy! Glossy! Agh!
Yes there have been literally thousands of ‘Web 2.0′ glossy roll-overs, buttons, highlights, reflections and artificial 3D tutorials spawned over the past few years. So what? Here’s another! The reflection effect is widely used on the web today and is especially popular with logo design. I’ve […]

Creating a Wordpress Theme - Part 1: Layout

April 25th, 2008

Waffling Intro As Usual
Welcome one and all to the first part of a 3 part series I’m tirelessly venturing to create on how to create your own Wordpress Theme. 2 questions come to mind regarding this tutorial. Firstly - why Wordpress? Well the simplest reason is that I’m quite handy at WP - I […]

CSS Horizontal Menu

March 7th, 2008

I’m big into horizontal menus. I think the majority of the web community are. In my eyes their only pitfall is the general inability to expand past a set width if you wish to add more links in. But who wants to do that, anyway?
I’m aware that there’s a multitude of different ways to create […]