Tag Archives: Code
Inline Style

Inline Style

One of the great things about our Design Reviver Answers is that it gives the novice or amateur web designer the opportunity to ask a basic question and have it answered by one of the many seasoned pro users that we have. It truly is a great site for learning and understanding, for designers of [...]

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10K Apart – inspire the web!

Just launched and just wonderful! The 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart hearkens back to Stewart Butterfield’s 5k Contest of yesteryear while anticipating the HTML5-powered web of tomorrow … and encouraging us to design that web today. We want beauty. We want utility. [...]
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Design Apps for Fun and Profit

Design Apps for Fun and Profit

Josh Williams, founder of Gowalla, is our guest at 1:00 PM ET today, July 29, in Episode 14 of The Big Web Show. Whether you’re a social media user/creator, an entrepreneur, an application developer, an iconist or illustrator, a freelancer with big dreams, an API wizard, a devotee of marketing 2.0, a web designer, a [...]

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Difference Between Margin and Position:absolute

Difference Between Margin and Position:absolute

As web designers we may at times take for granted the knowledge and experience we have built up over the years, and its often easy to forget about, especially when you are just starting out, that there are many basic questions, that may not crop up very often, but still need to be asked and [...]

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Poetry in Code. 7 unique artists of the digital age.

Ever since I can remember, I have always had a fascination with the relationship between code, and art. More recently, I’ve been inspired by both vector and motion art combined with code producing some truly remarkable pieces of computer generated art. Here’s a collection of some cg artwork, code and visualisations from software artists [...]

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Things A Front-End Developer Should Know

Things A Front-End Developer Should Know

There are no clear and defined skill-sets a developer should have to build a web site, with so many different technological possibilities it can be difficult deciding which to focus on. A question on this subject was recently asked on Answers, so, what skills do you think a front-end developer should have?
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Fresh jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials

Fresh jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials

Today’s news is a refreshing look at some of the most recent jQuery tutorials and techniques. Accompanied with the recent popularity of CSS3, some of these new techniques are groundbreaking and others simply take a fresh look at older design techniques.
CSS3 Rounded Image With jQuery
In this tutorial you will use the CSS3 border-radius and box-shadow [...]

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Supersize that Background, Please!

Background images that fill the screen thrill marketers but waste bandwidth in devices with small viewports, and suffer from cropping and alignment problems in high-res and widescreen monitors. Instead of using a single fixed background size, a better solution would be to scale the image to make it fit different window sizes. And with CSS3 [...]

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Prefix or Posthack

Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius and -webkit-animation may challenge our consciences, along with our patience. But while nobody particularly enjoys writing the same thing four or five times in a row, prefixes may actually accelerate the [...]

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