A lovely euphemism for rehashing previously used design methods and even raw code: it's called your design signature: If you've designed more than five sites in your site, you likely have a design signature too, although it's probably different than most other designers and coders you know. You may not even know you have it, but you do.

I'd say if you want to be a web designer then having a working knowledge of HTML would be pretty much be a prerequisite. But not necessarily... an art director I once worked at a web design studio didn't even know what H T M L meant... If you aren't proficient in HTML, you may be wondering why it is necessary to learn HTML when there ... Read full entry

A cool collection of paragraph formatting techniques and experiments, some of which unfortunately don't work across all browsers and platforms, using a little CSS trickery. Great reference point though if you want to try something new and different with your paragraph formatting.

Back in the day being a web designer meant knowing a little HTML (no CSS) and how to use image creation software like Photoshop. That was about it. That was a long time ago. There is just a little bit more to the role today however. You may find that there are plenty of job listings where the job requirements are described as, ... Read full entry

Eric Sol and his colleagues have developed a new CSS based layout method that may be worth a whirl, which is showing a lot of hack-free promise where three-plus column layouts are required. Our approach requires no hacks and it works with all modern browsers (Safari, Opera, Firefox, IE7) as well as IE6 and even IE5.5/Win. It does not work in IE5/Mac, but ... Read full entry

Crafting HTML email isn't nearly as daunting as it was several years ago, but there's still a long way to go, with many email programs still offering relatively limited support for CSS, as Campaign Monitor's updated CSS guide shows. Designing an HTML email that renders consistently across the major email clients can be very time consuming. Support for even simple CSS varies ... Read full entry

Webmonkey is back! This used to be one of my first reference points when I was learning about web design back in the day. It was here I learnt about using CSS for layout (in 1998), and a bunch of what were then very cool Dynamic HTML (DHTML) gimmicks. Webmonkey has been around the houses a little since I was using the site in the late 1990s, and ... Read full entry

Override Inline Styles from the Stylesheet A way of overriding the override. Useful for CSS monkeys who have to look after someone else's stylesheet until the next website redesign comes along. You read that right. I said override inline styles, and no, I have not been drinking. For the longest time it has bugged me that there was no way to override what someone else had done with ... Read full entry

Flash is not sexy or so they say Flash, in a place where there was no need for Flash, is particularly non-sexy. To me there is nothing worse than going to a site constructed almost entirely in Flash that at first glance you are like, "wait is this just straight HTML & CSS?", nope they tricked you. I truly do not understand this one ... Read full entry

Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides Organising and structuring your CSS code, or stylesheets, is just as important as any other aspect of the design process. An article all CSS coders should read.