background preloader

Webdesign

Facebook Twitter

Typography

Css. Favicon. Html. Resolution. Firebug. How to design a perfect background photoshop template for Twitte. One of Twitter's cool features is that you can really customize your profile, in particular with any background you want. Doing this, you are soon facing a design constraint: Twitter is a fixed width centered column, and your background image will be aligned from the top left corner. So despite all your artistic efforts, your background might just look dull or clumsy if visitors viewing your profile are not using the same screen resolution as yours.

To help with designing a background that fits every desktop resolution (from 1024×768 to 1900×1200), I made a convenient Photoshop template (.psd file). The Photoshop template contains a set of layers that will mimic intermediate resolutions, so you can mask what lower screen sizes won't see. Design your background to fit the biggest resolution (1900×1200), but move and align elements so that each screen size won't look like something weird or unexpected (half of a logo or a few missing words from your witty slogan).

How to design perfect Twitter background Ultimate Guide. Today, most businesses want a website. Some already have one. Others want one. They don’t want to hire IT staff and probably can’t afford any. And in most cases, an in-house IT staff, especially for your typical small business, just isn’t necessary. But, that doesn’t mean that you have to go without or will be forced to use some cookie cutter website or a personal Frontpage experiment gone awry. You can hire a web developer/designer to create a professional website for you, set it up, then hand it over to you for you to do what you want with it. But, how should you go about finding someone to do this? What Do You Want? The first step is to decide exactly what you want on your website. . * What kinds of information do you want to have on your site?

* Will your site require regular updates? * Will you be engaging in e-commerce on this website? * Will you need a database? * How fast do you need the job done? * What is your budget? Start Your Search * IS the website well-designed and attractive? How to design a unique Twitter background. How to design your online twitter background. Get DocShots. Markdown. Download Markdown 1.0.1 (18 KB) — 17 Dec 2004 Introduction Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. See the Syntax page for details pertaining to Markdown’s formatting syntax. You can try it out, right now, using the online Dingus. The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible.

The best way to get a feel for Markdown’s formatting syntax is simply to look at a Markdown-formatted document. (You can use this ‘.text’ suffix trick to view the Markdown source for the content of each of the pages in this section, e.g. the Syntax and License pages.) Markdown is free software, available under a BSD-style open source license. Movable Type. How to embed almost anything in your website. Learn how to embed videos, mp3 music, Flash videos (both swf and flv), pictures, fonts, spreadsheets, charts, maps and everything else into your blog or website. Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.

Embed RSS Feeds in Web Pages Go to this page, replace the feed URL with your own feed, use the default color scheme or change it to something else and then click Get Code. You’ll get a JavaScript snippet that can be easily placed in the sidebar of your blog. If you like to embed feeds from multiple sources, merge all of them into one using Yahoo Pipes and then pass the combined feed to the Google Gadget. You can also use RSS widgets like WidgetBox or YourMinis that are done in Flash and not JavaScript. Embed High Quality or HD YouTube Videos Embed MP3 music and other Audio If you like to embed audio files like songs, podcasts or interviews in your web pages, use Yahoo!

CSS Toolbox. 10 online photo editors. Online image editors are in a rage these days. Everyday, you hear about the release of a new online photo editor that claims to be the next big thing. From among the great number of online editors, we have hand picked some of the best ones that we found to be are noteworthy. With each site description, we have tried to tell you how or what feature of the editor forced us to include it in the list. To bookmark this page in delicious, you can use this link. 1. Picnik Picnik seems to be the most popular online image editor in this list. 2.

Splashup, earlier known as Fauxto, is a web based photo editor that looks just like a desktop application. 3. Relatively new into the arena, but have made quite a big fan fare in a short time. 4. Unlike the three editors mentioned above, Snipshot is not a flash based editor. 5. Pixenate, formerly called PXN8 is a simple but intuitive application. 6. Picture2life is just another online image editor. 7. 8. Want to have a Picasa running in your browser? 9. Notepad++

E - TextEditor. Feng Shui for graphic user interfaces. Understanding CSS Positioning part 1. Understanding CSS Positioning part 1 Without a doubt, positioning, or the layout, is the hardest part of CSS. Not only because it ever so often varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position an element, all with various (dis) advantages.

This series of articles will thrive to explain the possibilities you have in positioning. It doesn’t only cover positioning, but also properties that define layout such as display and float, and a preview of the new CSS3 layout modules. This part will introduce the positioning and display property. Display:hehwha? Before we start, it is worth noting that there are basically two types of ways to display an element in CSS: block and inline. Display:block; Block can be, quite literally, seen as a block.

Display:inline; Display:inline is somewhat the opposite. That leaves display:none, which is really easy for me to explain: it doesn’t display. There is a multitude of other display: properties such as table and inline-block. Flow. 9 CSS ethics every designer should have. Nov 10 2007 No need to get any more complicated structure than you need to. Writing a CSS Stylesheet That is Easy to Maintain is really easy, just by following these 9 rules. How deeply you organize your CSS can greatly hinder any necessary tweaks that arise in the future. So, I proposed the question to my team to take a close look at some of the most interesting CSS coding structure and listed them below where you can probably use in every project you are developing. 1) Indent descendant and related rules: This allows you to easily recognize page structure within your CSS and how sections related to each other.

[Erratic Wisdom] 2)Grouping and commenting your CSS rules Setup certain sections in your CSS files that always exists: page structure, links, header, footer, lists, etc. /* Header Styles Go Here **************/ ...CSS Code Goes Here…/* End Header Styles *************/Header StructureNavigationFormsLinksHeadersContentListsCommon Classes 3) Keep style type on single line Instead of this: CSS Category. RSS / Twitter Feed Reader using jQuery Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 In this article we will build an RSS / Twitter news-feed-reader-ticker. Yeah, that’s a mouth full, but you know what I’m talking about, right? This news/RSS/Twitter ticker will query web services using jQuery and return JSON results which we will then display in a scrolling ticker.

Oh, hell just click the example below and see for yourself. Click here to view scrolling ticker There’s probably a handful of plugins that will achieve the same result, but as you will see there’s not much code needed to do it yourself. (more…) Building a Better, Faster, Stronger Navigation Menu Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 In this article we are going to look at some very common mistakes that are made when building a navigational menu.

The navigational menu that we are going to rebuild is the one for the Rock Bottom Brewery restaurant that we love here in Denver. Have a look at their main menu. Now look at our Re-factored main menu. (more…) Overview. CSS - A recipe for success. If you look at most restaurant menus (or recipes) you will see the dish described on the left hand side followed by a dotted line that continues to the right side of the menu where the price is situated. Have a look at Figure 1 to see what I mean. Figure 1 Although this may look like an easy thing to replicate in HTML it’s really not as straight forward as it looks and there are a few obstacles to overcome if we want to reproduce this effect. So that’s exactly what we are going to learn how to do in this article!

Dotted Leaders As this is clearly a list of sorts, CSS can handle this nicely (although an argument could be made for using tables also). There are two main issues to overcome: First we must place the text on both the left and right sides of the same line. The second problem we will need to overcome is how to make the dotted line continue from the text on the left and stop at the text on the right. Left and Right We’ll tackle the positioning of the text first. Figure 2 Figure 3. Genfavicon.

Favikon.