CSS and Web Design Articles
Web 2.0 Sticker Text Effect
Posted by admin, 1 Year, 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 21 Hours, 37 Minutes ago
SwayMedia have a quick and easy tutorial on how to achieve a classic "web 2.0" text effect using Photoshop.
Here is the final result:
Click here for the full tutorial
Flash-Based Image Galleries
Posted by admin, 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 7 Hours, 23 Minutes ago
Smashing Magazine has taken a look at some of the best flash-based image galleries.
From the site "In many situations web designers should avoid Flash and prefer usual text-based presentation. For instance, in most tasks related to pure text presentation Flash is neither necessary nor user-friendly, and it also has some serious accessibility problems: in fact,"pure" text is easier to maintain and easier to copy and paste.
However, if you'd like to present some multimedia-content, particularly images, Flash can often be a feasible solution, with flexible image management for web designers and impressive visual presentation for users. Used moderately, Flash-based galleries can give the presentation a fresh spark and create a rich visual experience you might want to offer your visitors.
In this post we present some of the free, attractive and flexible Flash-based galleries you can use to present your images more effectively."
Click here to read the full article.
Big, Bold Backgrounds
Posted by admin, 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 20 Hours, 1 Minute ago
Fadtastic has taken a look at the little-used but highly aesthetic use of complex and ornate background images for websites.
Here a my favorites from the small but wonderful list:
Web Designers Wall
n.design studio
Read the rest of the article on Fadtastic.
Search Box Inspiration
Posted by admin, 1 Year, 2 Months, 4 Weeks, 2 Days, 36 Minutes ago
Search boxes are an important way of enabling users to find the content they want in your site. The search box needs to be clearly visible.. and straight forward to use.
Placement
The trend these days seems to be to have the search box in the top-right hand side of a webpage. The search box is usually part of the header so that it is available on every sub-page of a website. Usability studies seem to indicate that the upper-right or upper-centre of a webpage is good for usability.
Design
Here are a few search boxes from a variety of sites. I will add more as I find them.
Apple
Web Designers Wall
Larissa Meek
Tutorial Blog
Smashing Magazine
ilovecode
WebAppers
Veerle's Blog
Digg
EzzyEnough
Virb
Veoh
Cruxy
ThisNext
SwapTree
StyleHive
PartyStrands
Excites
ClipMarks
iLike
Search Results
Once a user has searched, we do not want to bombard them with thousands of search results. In general a max of 50 search results should be shown on a single page - any more than that and we should paginate the search results.
The user should also be able to refine their search from the search results page.
