All posts tagged howto
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
Posted in Learn Web Design | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
I recently upgraded my computer at work to a new iMac running OS X Leopard. I’m very happy with the new system, but today I noticed something strange with how fonts were being displayed on some websites. For sites with light text on a dark background the fonts were displaying as bolded, or “bleeding” onto the background in a not very smooth manner. I tried going into System Preferences > Appearance and adjusting the Font Smoothing Style, but this didn’t seem to have any affect on the problem. (more…)
Tags: howto, osx
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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
Posted in howto | 32 Comments »
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
How to use Twitterbook to get the status from your Facebook account to update your Twitter.com status as well.
Twitter is the South by Southwest award winning social networking service that allows members to keep each other updated on what they are currently doing or thinking.
Facebook, another social networking service, was originally developed for college and university students but has been opened to anyone with an email address. Now with over 17 million accounts, Facebook allows users to keep a list of friends, blog, share photos—and post their current status.
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Tags: facebook, howto, mashup, php, tools, twitter
Posted in tools | 70 Comments »
Monday, March 12th, 2007
Well, it’s certainly been a while since I posted a new CSS how-to. Actually, it’s been a while since I did much regular posting at all! Not to worry though, the Spring weather means it’s time for the blog to come out of hibernation.
CSS Pull Quotes is something I thought of last summer, and was originally going to be the subject of an article for A List Apart. Since it’s been so long since I last posted a CSS article here, I thought I add it to the list of tutorials at Design Meme.
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Tags: design, development, howto, tutorial, web
Posted in Learn Web Design | 4 Comments »
