Useful JQuery methods and events for web designers p.1

Posted on 24 March 2009 by claudio

I am almost finished reading Learning jQuery 1.3 by Karl Swedberg, Jonathan Chaffer ; I’d like to share some useful methods and code snippets that may come handy to web designers when it is time to handcoding our beautiful layouts.
Reference: jquery.com
Continue reading →

Posted in copy&paste, jquery | Tagged | Leave a comment

Web design bookmarks of the week

Posted on 21 March 2009 by claudio

Having almost a second life over the internet, doing a lot of browsing and reseaches about new web design trends, techniques and inspiration brought me to have the idea of sharing my 2578 delicious bookmarks.
The posts (resources, snippets, portfolios) will be updated weekly, mainly on Saturdays and Sundays.

Continue reading →

Posted in web, web design | Tagged | 1 Comment

Clearing floats with css

Posted on 21 February 2009 by claudio

I was reading an article about browser inconsistencies and in particular about what the author calls clearing floats – “when a container or wrapper div doesn’t correctly wrap around the containing divs”.
Continue reading →

Posted in css, tips&tricks, web design | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Web designer Venezia featured on CSSGlance

Posted on 18 February 2009 by claudio

My website has been featured on cssglance.com – “the first italian website focused on providing well designed and innovative CSS based websites from all around the world”.
Continue reading →

Posted in general | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

A custom 404 page

Posted on 17 February 2009 by claudio

Let’s see how to create a custom 404 page in two simple steps.

  1. You need to have access to your webserver and upload to its root the .htaccess file. This is a simple file which tells the server to show a default page in case the one we are trying to access cannot be found. The file looks like this: 
    ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yoursite.com/404.html

    2. Continue reading →

Posted in copy&paste, seo, tips&tricks | Tagged , | Leave a comment

The Canonical Tag

Posted on 16 February 2009 by claudio

Matt Cutts explains the new ‘canonical tag’ in a video.

This tag (whose syntax is: 

<link rel=”canonical” value=”http://example.com/page.html”/>

) helps webmaster to clean up duplicate urls on sites and is very useful when working with CMS such as wordpress for instance.
Continue reading →

Posted in copy&paste, seo, tips&tricks | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Flash and PNGs

Posted on 15 February 2009 by claudio

Today I am going to show you another way of using flash in your pages.
I do not use flash that often but for my latest website (www.sirenamurano.com) I really needed a solution to manage big sized PNGs.
Continue reading →

Posted in copy&paste, flash, web design | Tagged , , | Leave a comment