Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
In addition to working in web design and development, I also teach a few different web design courses. I usually refer my students to intermediate to advanced resources like A List Apart, or Think Vitamin. To help people get to the point where they’ll find those sites helpful, I’m going to start posting some short articles on more basic, but still helpful, techniques you can use if you’re just getting started.
The first of these new articles to help you learn web design is about a important and frequently requested technique: Rollover Images with Cascading Style Sheets
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Tags: article, css, design, development, howto, rollovers, tutorial, web
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
UPDATE: These techniques will no longer allow you to customize your Facebook profile.
Facebook now has over 24 million active users keeping in touch with friends and colleagues. Some people are predicting that it will become the de-facto social networking tool for the web. It’s certainly a very useful service, but as I spent more time with Facebook looking at all those identically designed profile pages I started to miss the individuality that accompanied personal websites and blogs.
Let’s look at how you can take a Faceook profile and using a bit of CSS and the new Facebook Markup Language, create something a bit more personalized. In Part 1 we’ll look at how to start adding your own xHTML and CSS.
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Tags: css, design, development, facebook, howto, networking, social, tutorial
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