Grid based design has become an emerging trend for web design in the last year, and it’s continuing to gain momentum. While it’s still somewhat of a mystery to a good portion of the community, it’s something that has been around since before the printed word. Geometry and symmetry are an important aspect through many design related disciplines, and is the most evident in classical greco roman architecture, and the foundation of print design to name a few.
Porting this mindset over to webdesign has taken a bit of time, but…
Stuff By Sarah yesterday posted about SitePoint releasing their photoshop E-Book for free for a full month (28 days left). This is fantastic offer and one which I encourage you all to take up.
About the Book
‘The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques‘ was written by experienced web designer Corrie Haffly and has 278 full color pages which is split into 9 chapters.
The book shows you how to :
- Design attractive web graphics
- Touch up photographs for web use
- Create web site mockups using Photoshop
- Improve your digital workflow
- Master menus, buttons and background…
If your designing a theme with a dedicated column to the date stamp, you can take back some of that space under it and add a unique pop to your design.
In the image to the right the date column is a span and the content of the article is in a div to the right of it. Because of the way it is layed out, using a span and then floating the content next to it, you have the ability to float things outside of the content and under the…
A pull quote is a quoted snippet from an associated article that is used to highlight a bit of the post. Pull quotes are the most effective element for adding improved scanability to your text, and by extension the perception of your sites usefulness.
Here’s the basics. First, create a new class in your themes style sheet, call it .quote. This is the base of how your pull quotes will be formatted and positioned. Specify whether you want it to float to the left or right, what margins you like, and…
The recently released WordPress 2.5 was a major update and included many new features, most notably the inclusion of Gravatars. Gravatar stands for globally recognized avatar. It essentially provides an easy way for blog commentators to attach their own image to comments all across the web.
Why you should add Gravatars to your Blog
Gravatars are supported by all major blog platforms however it’s the inclusion of Gravatar in a Wordpress Release which will really make it the system which all bloggers use (I’m actually suprised it took so long for Gravatars…
