In some ways, the Contact Form is the “Hello, World!” application of web designers and web developers. It is nothing that hasn’t been done before a million times, but it is symbolic of being able to control the design of …

The popular JavaScript library jQuery is an amazing way to extend the design possibilities of your site beyond what CSS can do. But luckily, if you are already comfortable with CSS, you have a huge head start in jQuery! This …

This week I take you through the creation of simple webpage to display your recent ‘Tweets’ from Twitter from start to finish. This covers the design in Photoshop, to including the javascript stuff provided by Twitter to the markup, to …

I have recently released a side project called the Band Website Template. This is just a quick tour of it, explaining why it was built and why I think it can be useful for bands and their web designers.

While sliding doors is far from a new concept and will be obsoleted once we see wider support for multiple backgrounds (CSS3), it is still a good one for your bag-of-tricks. The theory is that if we have an extra …

This episode is a prequal to episodes 12, 13, and 14. We go back to a blank Photoshop document and re-create it. There is no HTML/CSS in this episode, just pure Photoshop work.

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Firebug is an essential Firefox extension for web designers and developers. You are able to quickly target any element on a page to see the markup, the CSS, the layout, and the DOM in an instant. Not only can you …

We wrap up the mockup conversion here in Episode Three. We create the “article area” and the “sidebar” (semantic class naming!), and then we clear the float. We use Firebug to steal the typography from the live CSS-Tricks. Then we …

In Episode Two of this series, we continue on with the structure of the site. In Photoshop, we create the three different states of the menu, then slice them up and use the CSS sprites technique to create the rollover …

There has been LOTS of great feedback on the first series of Converting a Photoshop Mockup into HTML/CSS. So let’s do it again! Every website is different will require different conversion technqiues so there will be plenty to learn this …