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Amateur’s Guide To Customizing Website Design With FireBug

29.09.2009 by · Leave a Comment

I have a huge problem with web designers: I am seldom satisfied with what I am offered and can’t express in words what I actually want. Being an Internet marketer I have to launch new sites quite often, so naturally I frequently come across the problem.

So what to do? I can’t afford the time to learn web design and turn into a professional web developer. Besides, I can’t do everything by myself. Luckily, I’ve recently come across a cool web development tool that allows me to tweak CSS on-the-fly and come up with the ultimate version I feel comfortable with.

The tool is a FireFox addon called FireBug and it is so cool that many web developers use FireFox for the only reason that it can be extended with FireBug. It’s an ultimate Firefox addon for web developers. So in this post I am sharing my amateur’s tricks of creating a web site design with FireBug.
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Drop-Down Menu: 30+ Useful Scripts to Enhance Header Navigation

05.08.2009 by · Leave a Comment

drop-down menu

Drop-down menu (also known as pull-down menu) is an essential in most web design. It plays important role in the creation of an effective and user friendly website. It’s a good solution to trim down long menu that is overwhelming the screen space, getting them to display in a more organize category-sub category pattern.

In this article, we’d like to show you some of the best drop-down menu scripts we come to know. These drop-down menu varies from CSS only, CSS & Javascripts and menu that will work with your current Javascript library like jQuery, MooTools and Prototype. Full list after jump.
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10 Excellent CSS Tips and Tutorials

03.08.2009 by · Leave a Comment

10 Excellent CSS Tips and Tutorials

CSS is a technology that web designers use everyday, but yet it is something that most struggle with as well. Whether it’s keeping stylesheets for large sites manageable, or creating image effects that are cross browser compatible, there are plenty of things to cause frustration. This article is an attempt to provide you with a few resources that might help you with your CSS woes or introduce you to a few tricks you didn’t know about.
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60 High Quality Free Web Templates and Layouts

03.08.2009 by · 1 Comment

In terms of creating a website (corporate or personal) it don’t have to be coded from scratch anymore. That means you probably don’t have to start from a blank .PHP, .CSS or .HTML document. Thanks to many kind and generous designers / developers, high quality web templates are distributed freely over the Internet.

Even if you are not too familiar with web designing, you too can have a professionally looking website. All you need to do is find a suitable template, tweak the designs and styles, pump in your contents. There are tonnes of templates sites out there, that makes searching for a free yet high quality templates hard and tedious, so we attempted to collect and showcase you some of really good ones. Here, we proudly present 60 High Quality Free Web Templates and Layouts, a great reference for anyone who wants to create a website, even it’s just a small one.

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38 Free Elegant XHTML/CSS Website Templates

03.08.2009 by · Leave a Comment

A friend once asked “why do you still surf for web templates when you can create one?“. I answered, for fun. But then again I start to ponder and realiazed even if we are capable to create, there are still many great reasons to check out free templates out there.

Thanks to many of the generous souls, most of these web templates found online are no longer the same. A lot of them are high quality, XHTML compliant, cross-browser compatible and comes with Photoshop .PSD files. As a developer cum designer myself, I wouldn’t say you should get a nice free template and implement directly, but rather, check out the structure, design and codes. Labeling, naming, styling and structuring are what interest me more, and I’m pretty sure there’s more if dug deeper.

Without further ado, here’s (another) 38 Free Elegant XHTML/CSS Website Templates, and I’ve previously showcased 60 High Quality Free Web Templates, that makes it close to 100 piece of nice templates in the archive. Full list after jump.
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20 Useful CSS Tips For Beginners

03.08.2009 by · Leave a Comment

useful css for beginners

In the old days, we depend a lot of on developers and programmers to help update the website, even when it’s just a minor one. Thanks to the CSS and it’s flexibility, styles can be extract independently away from the codes. Now, with some basic understanding of CSS, even a novice can easily change the style of a website.

Whether you are interested in picking up CSS to create your own website, or merely to tweak your blog’s look and feel a little – it’s always good to start with the fundamentals to gain a stronger foundation. Let’s take a look at some CSS Tips we thought might be useful for beginners. Full list after jump.
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50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design

02.08.2009 by · 1 Comment

Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA

CSS is almost certainly one of the best developments in web design since the first graphical web browsers were adopted on a wide scale. Where tables created clunky, slow-loading pages, CSS created much more streamlined and usable web pages. Plus, CSS has allowed designers to achieve a number of different styles that used to only be possible with images.

One of the best parts of CSS is that it’s so simple once you know the basics. Where tables used to make incredibly complex and sometimes impossible-to-decipher code, CSS keeps things clean and simple. Add a few comments to keep everything organized and it becomes an absolute dream to work with.
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