CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 « Smashing Magazine Advertisement One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. As of this writing, Internet Explorer holds about a 65% market share combined across all their currently used browsers. The interesting part of those statistics is that the numbers across IE6, IE7, and IE8 are very close, preventing a single Microsoft browser from dominating browser stats — contrary to what has been the trend in the past. Thanks to the many available JavaScript libraries, JavaScript testing across different browsers has become as close to perfect as the current situation will allow. This article will attempt to provide an exhaustive, easy-to-use reference for developers desiring to know the differences in CSS support for IE6, IE7 and IE8. This article does not discuss: Any item that is not supported by any of the three browser versionsProprietary or vendor-specific CSS Example
Best Rich Text Editors ready to use in web projects This post illustrates five interesting rich text editors ready to use in your web projects. I also provided some guidelines regarding how to implement them on your pages using a few lines of HTML code. Try them! 1. Yahoo! Implement this editor in your web site is very simple. ...and copy and paste the Javascript code you can find in the related pages on Yahoo Developer Network on your page. - Simple Editor with basic buttons- Code Editor- Editor in a Dialog Control The Rich Text Editor's toolbar is extensible via a plugin architecture so that advanced implementations can achieve a high degree of customization. 2. The only lines of code you have to add are the following: Simple no? 3. Is very simple to integrate in your website only with a few lines of code. ...and initialize the editor using the code you can find here, clicking on the tab View Source. That's all! 4. It's very simple to implement using this code: 5. Do you have any suggestion about this topic?
11 iPhone apps esenciales para diseñadores Si sois diseñadores y tenéis un iPhone, muchas veces habréis pensado que aplicaciones son las mejores para diseño y desarrollo web. Para no tener que irlas buscando por App Store, aquí os mostramos una excelente recopilación de aplicaciones para iPhone sobre diseño web y desarrollo que ayudará a más de uno y le ahorrará tiempo: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Igual que os presentamos una recopilación de referencias CSS, aquí tenéis la aplicación para iPhone. 8. 9. 10. 11. Vía | Designer-Daily
Jing | Add visuals to your online conversations Screen Recorder Snagit's screen recorder lets you quickly record yourself working through steps. Or grab individual frames out of the recorded video. Save your video file as an mp4 or animated GIF. Record Audio Include audio in your videos from either a microphone or your computer's system audio. Record Camera Record your screen or camera — or record them both at the same time with picture-in-picture to add a personal touch. Cloud Library Find, open, and edit captures fluidly as you move between computers (Windows or Mac), when they are synced via the cloud provider of your choice. Animated GIFs Turn any short recording (.mp4) into an animated GIF, and quickly add it to a website, document, or chat. Trim Video Clips Remove any unwanted sections from your screen recordings. Create Video from Images Talk and draw over a series of screenshots to create a quick “how-to” video or GIF. All-in-One Capture Capture your entire desktop, a region, a window, or a scrolling screen. Panoramic Scrolling Capture
10 Best CSS Practices to Improve Your Code It’s really easy to find yourself wondering how your CSS got to be such a mess. Sometimes it’s the result of sloppy coding from the start, sometimes it’s because of multiple hacks and changes over time. Whatever the cause, it doesn’t have to be that way. Writing clean, super-manageable CSS is simple when you start off on the right foot and make your code easier to maintain and edit later on. Here are 11 tips for speeding up the process, writing CSS that is slimmer, faster and less likely to give you a headache. 1. Just like anything else, it pays to keep yourself organized. It will help you keep the cascading part of CSS in mind and sets your style sheet up to take advantage of style inheritance. Declare your most generic items first, then the not-so-generic and so on. Use a structure that works best for you while keeping future edits and other developers in mind. Resets and overridesLinks and typeMain layoutSecondary layout structuresForm elementsMiscellaneous 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. This: 7. 8. 9.
15 Useful HTML5 Tutorials and Cheat Sheets | Tutorials 1911 shares 8 Must-have Cheat Sheets for Web Designers and Developers As a web designer or developer, it’s nearly impossible to remember multiple programming languages, frameworks, and keyboard shortcuts to various applications. Read More 2705 shares Photoshop CS6 Cheat Sheet Photoshop is one of the preferred tools of web designers, and like any other tool that is used over and over, it’s important to optimize one’s workflow by using keyboard shortcuts.
960 Grid System HostSo - Reliable, Affordable Web Hosting Design A Fresh Blog Theme On The 960 Grid | My Ink Blog CSS Frameworks Up until a couple of weeks ago I never really understood the fascination with using CSS frameworks in web design. They just seemed very limiting and boring. If you have been hesitant to give CSS frameworks a try for similar reasons, I suggest you at least give them a fair shake before you write them off completely. Introduction In this tutorial I’ll show you how to mock up a fresh looking blog theme in Photoshop that is designed to be used within the 960 framework. The Files In order to help you follow along and learn the techniques in more depth, below is the PSD file and a full size preview. Step 1 In some of my past Photoshop mockups and noticeably so for this project, Photoshop has a tendency to fade out colors like they’ve been through the wash too many times. We are going to use the 960 photoshop template that is provided in the download. Step 2 For now, hide the visibility on the grid by clicking on the eye icon in the layers palette for the 16 Col Grid group. Step 3
45 Free eBooks for Developers and Designers | Speckyboy Design Magazine Over the past year or so we have published several articles featuring a selection of the best free ebooks for web designers, with each post proving very popular and highly resourceful. Sadly, since then some of the fantastic ebooks we previously featured are no longer available or are no longer been offered as a freebie. But looking on the positive side many new web design ebooks have been released and, as you will see within this post, there are also a few ebooks, recommended by our readers, which we missed in those previous articles. Just as we did with the previous posts we have not offered a critique of each book only a description of the content, as we feel that if someone spends so much valuable time writing an entire specialized book and then offer it for free, in our eyes they deserve only praise and appreciation. All of the 45 books in this post are completely FREE and can be either downloaded in digital format (PDF) or viewed as a web page (HTML). Better CSS Font Stacks →PDF →
[Ask SM: CSS] Equal Spacing, CSS Font Replacement | CSS Advertisement This is our fourth installment of Ask SM, featuring reader questions about Web design, focusing on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In this post we’ll cover how you can distribute the horizontal space between elements evenly, how you can achieve maximum sides on images; you’ll also learn best practices for CSS font replacement and answers to a couple of quickfire questions. If you have a question about CSS or JavaScript, feel free to reach me (Chris Coyier) via one of these methods: Send an email to ask [at] smashingmagazine [dot] com with your question.Post your question in our forum.Or, if you have a quick question, just tweet us @smashingmag or @chriscoyier. Please note: I will do what I can to answer questions, but I will certainly not be able to answer all of them. Distributing the horizontal space between elements evenly Antoine Nicolas writes: Do you know how to perfectly and dynamically distribute objects horizontally in a container using CSS? Let’s review the specific goals:
A Beautiful Apple-style Slideshow Gallery With CSS & jQuery – Tutorialzine Martin Angelov Introduction When speaking about design, there is one company that is impossible to go without. Apple values design – being a new product, a fancy catalog or their website – there is always something to admire. This week, we are making an Apple-like slideshow gallery, similar to the one they use on their website to showcase their products. So go ahead and download the example source code and continue with the first step. Step 1 – XHTML There is no need for a database nor a PHP back-end for this gallery. Lets take a closer look at the XHTML markup: demo.html The idea is simple – there are two main container DIVs – the one with id=”menu” holds the thumbnails, and the other – “slides” holds the slides themselves. To add a new slide, you’ll just have to add new elements to both containers. You can even put any kind of HTML in as well. Also notice that the thumbnail LI elements. Now lets continue with the next step. An Apple-like Slideshow Gallery Step 2 – CSS demo.css Step 3 – jQuery