Sunday, October 2, 2011

Build a Killer Online Portfolio in 9 Easy Steps

Build a Killer Online Portfolio in 9 Easy Steps

Every freelancer should have an online portfolio. You’ve got one, right? If not, skip to the last paragraph of this post. It’s written for you.

If you do have one, you can breathe a sigh of relief. You’re halfway there.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Neglected Necessities Of Design

The Neglected Necessities Of Design
Whether you are excitedly exploring responsive design, diving headlong into accessibility, building a typographic masterpiece or seeing what level of interactivity you can achieve, all of your Web-based projects should have a common core.

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2011
We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one

Design Legacy: A Social History Of Jamaican Album Covers

Design Legacy: A Social History Of Jamaican Album Covers\
Mention Jamaican music to someone who isn’t a fan and you can bet that a fairly predictable image pops into the head of your listener. Chances are this image looks something like the cover of Bim Sherman’s Exploitation:

Examples And Tips For Using Illustrator’s Warp Tools

Examples And Tips For Using Illustrator’s Warp Tools
Adobe Illustrator is one very useful program for creating vector artwork. The tools and features available in Illustrator make it easy to create digital illustrations, whether from scratch or by tracing a photograph.

Freebie: Professional E-Commerce Icons Set (20 Icons)

Freebie: Professional E-Commerce Icons Set (20 Icons)
Today, we are glad to release a set of 20 high quality E-commerce Icons in 64×64px, available in .png-format. This set was designed by Web Icons Set with the purpose to be used in e-commerce websites and has been exclusively released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

X-UA-Compatible

X-UA-Compatible
The X-UA-Compatible meta tag allows web authors to choose what version of Internet Explorer the page should be rendered as. It is used by Internet Explorer 8 to specify if a page should be rendered as IE 7 (compatibility view) or IE 8 (standards view).

Friday, July 29, 2011

CSS Line Spacing

CSS Line Spacing
CSS line spacing is affected by the CSS style property line-height.. This property takes up to 5 different values:

Introduction to Dreamweaver

Introduction to Dreamweaver
When working with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for the first time, or on a new site for the first time, you need to define the Web site so that Dreamweaver can work with it. This process includes naming the site, placing the local files on a directory on your hard drive, and showing Dreamweaver where those files will be published on the Web. Follow these easy instructions to define a new Web site for Dreamweaver MX.

Adding Space to Web Page Text

Adding Space to Web Page Text
In design, whitespace is the empty spaces around the elements in the design. It is used to visually separate elements and group them together. Before CSS was widely supported, there were very few ways to manipulate the whitespace in a Web design. But CSS provides a huge number of tools. This article discusses CSS properties that manipulate the whitespace in and around textual elements on a Web page.

Adding Space to Web Page Text | new web design articles - Snaxa Web Design | New York Web Development | Creatve Design Studio | Flash and Graphics

Adding Space to Web Page Text
In design, whitespace is the empty spaces around the elements in the design. It is used to visually separate elements and group them together. Before CSS was widely supported, there were very few ways to manipulate the whitespace in a Web design. But CSS provides a huge number of tools. This article discusses CSS properties that manipulate the whitespace in and around textual elements on a Web page.

What is a DTD: Element

What is a DTD: Elements
Elements, entities, attributes and notations are the building blocks of a DTD.

Become a Freelance Web Designer

Become a Freelance Web Designer
Many freelancers start out by simply building a Web page for their mom or a friend and then figure that they are freelancers. And all they need is a home page that announces their availability and clients will come flocking to their door.

Using Forms and CG

Using Forms and CGI
This CGI will be written in Perl, one of the most popular languages for writing CGI scripts. The script will have three parts:

Microsoft Expression Web 1 | new web design articles - Snaxa Web Design | New York Web Development | Creatve Design Studio | Flash and Graphics

Microsoft Expression Web 1
Most reviews of Expression Web start out by saying that this is a great improvement over FrontPage. I think this is a mis-leading statement. Yes, it is an improvement over FrontPage, but that doesn't cover all the ways that Expression Web is an exciting change coming out of Microsoft. Expression Web is a full-featured professional Web development software package. It can compete directly with Dreamweaver, and in many ways comes out ahead.

HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0 Reference - HTML Tag Reference by Function

HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0 Reference - HTML Tag Reference by Function

HTML Tag Reference - Functional

Splash Pages: Pros and Cons | new web design articles - Snaxa Web Design | New York Web Development | Creatve Design Studio | Flash and Graphics

Splash Pages: Pros and Cons

What is a Splash Page?

Splash pages are an introductory page to your Web site. They typically offer one or two of the following features