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In case you haven’t noticed or just so happen to keep up with the site via RSS, late last Friday I finally finished up my work on the redesign for this very site. It had been a very long time coming, and I must say that I love it. I just no longer liked the [...]

I often receive emails from people asking what steps to take to learn CSS and how to create CSS based layouts. I usually respond by suggesting a few books and offer up a few hints of my own. The following tips are what I have found work best for me. They may seem very basic [...]

I wasn’t even aware of this until today, but a company called OverZone Software offers a program called CSS Tab Designer which helps the user design CSS-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required. The program information on the website says it offers 60+ different designs/colors. I must say judging by the [...]

Thanks to the wonderful tool that is Mint, I discovered another “rip” of this current site design. This time my site seems to be stolen by a “designer” at a New Orleans based design firm. What ending up making this most current design ripping experience somewhat fun is that when I noticed the site in [...]

I know myself and a lot of designers were very excited after reading Ethan Marcotte’s method of centering sliding doors tabs last month over at 24 ways. I had been waiting for someone to help solve the float issue with the sliding doors technique for a very long while. I enjoyed the article but thought [...]

A lot of people I’ve spoke to, and many blog posts I have read have been really unhappy with the new visual editor in WordPress 2.0. It is pretty simple to revert back to the traditional post interface without all the WYSIWYG additions, but a lot of people aren’t sure how, or where to find [...]

If you don’t know about newsvine.com, or have been under a rock for quite a while, the site is a place where anyone can read, write, and influence the news. The site offers users a chance to “seed” articles they have read and would like to pass on for other users to enjoy. I have [...]

To add a quick link on your blog to all of the popular traffic-boosting sites like Paul over at paulstamatiou.com does at the bottom of each of his posts, simply add the code below to your single entry PHP file, main PHP file, or both. I added the following code to my single entry PHP [...]

Corner banners have been a popular web trend for a long while now. Last year you could not visit anyone’s website without seeing some type of banner stripe. I recently received quite a bit of heat concerning an anti-IE banner that I was displaying on my site, but even more questions on how I actually [...]

After numerous (who knew there were so many die-hard IE fans?) emails from people ranting and raving about a small banner that has been on my site for well over 3 months I decided to make the necessary changes to assure my site now displays correctly in Internet Explorer. I hope the 5% of IE [...]