Month: March 2008

The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS

This article will walk you through creating a basic elastic layout; what exactly an “em” is and how to calculate them, how to use ems to create an elastic layer for content with scalable text and images, including basic vertical rhythm…
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Crème de la crème of CSS Galleries

The galleries of CSS-based designs showcase exemplary design practices, solutions, ideas and templates. Once you have no idea what you should do next with your web-site, it’s worth taking a look at some beautiful works – crème de la crème of CSS-designs – out there…
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How to use headings in HTML

Many of web standards rookies feel that passing validation is good enough to call their work web standards compliant. Those who are more involved in web standards know that there’s more than that. Use of headings is a good example. While the validator will not show any warnings or errors for headings, you can’t say […]
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20 of the best Ecommerce Websites

Here’s a list of well designed, standards-compliant E-commerce stores. These are tricky sites to get right and design can give way to conversions, which is after all, the reason they are there – to make money. There’s a balance of sites which get the design and usability right, focused on sites that sell tangible products […]
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How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?

Good good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. When Creative Directors tell you that your design is crap, they’re actually giving you positive reinforcement…
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