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Four Great Resources For CSS Beginers

Debbie Campbell — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:58:53 +0000

I have a lot of web design books – I mean a lot. I’ve been collecting them since I started Red Kite in 2005, and I thought this would be a great place to share which ones have been most useful to me as a designer and developer. Even though things change very rapidly in the [...]

Creating Solid Text With A Transparent Background

Christopher Heiss — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:02:03 +0000

Today, I will be showing you how to create a 50% transparent bounding box for your content. This is a good alternative to using transparent PNG. Both this technique and the png will require a hack in the CSS coding to display correctly. To begin, we need to build our CSS code. [...]

Building A Shadow Box Using Only CSS

Christopher Heiss — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:20:43 +0000

Last week I showed you how to create a custom rollover only using one image. Today, I am going to show you how to create a shadow box for content without using any images. The human eye naturally blends like colors together, so using that now, we will create an optical [...]

Creating An Image Rollover Within CSS

Christopher Heiss — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:29:57 +0000

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are the life blood of modern web design. Within CSS, you can build almost any design element you need, from button rollovers to complex page transitions. Today, I will be showing you how to create a button rollover with one image instead of a set of [...]

The Advantage of Using Gradient Texts

Lamonte — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:49:04 +0000

There are many nice text effects possible with CSS. Some can be quite dreamy and surreal in nature when used in the correct context. Like this example, a gradient text, see the picture below: This is great for page headings particularly on design orientated sites. There is no need to create the image with the gradient [...]

Derald — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:37:38 +0000

Over at blog.bug.gd they had an interesting article. They state that Google omits some HTML in order to have their page be fast, and thus a better user experience. Some of the tags that the article points out are the closing tags for the body of the document, and the closing HTML tags. [...]

Google’s Captcha Theory

Derald — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:52:04 +0000

Captchas are currently the best way to protect sites from bots. If you have signed up for any site, or filled out any form on the web recently, you most likely ran into a captcha. For those who don’t know what a captcha is, here is a brief explaination of what they are. [...]

PHP Pocket Reference and PHP Hacks Book Reviews

Derald — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:11:38 +0000

This is something that we haven’t done on the site in a while, so I thought we would do it again. A book review, and today we are going to be reviewing two books. Both are from O’Reilly, who if you have been a programmer for a while, is very popular for their [...]

Google Friend Connect

Derald — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:42:44 +0000

Google has became famous for their APIs that they create. There are APIs for everything, Google Maps, Google Search, the famous Google Adsense, and even Picasa has APIs. Google recently released Google Friend Connect. You may be asking what is Friend Connect. Google’s official blog states the following when talking about the API: “This service lets webmasters [...]

Lessons from Google I/O 2008 Keynote

Derald — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:01:55 +0000

How much does design actually effect your users? Believe it or not, design effects your site more then you think, even the smallest change in design effects it. I was recently listening to Marissa Mayer’s keynote from Google IO 2008 and found some of the information she pointed out very interesting. (If [...]