It’s been a while since I’ve posted an Interesting Articles post, so here it is again, with a couple of great links.
1. The Ultimate Webdesign Gallery Resource - This post gives you an extensive analyze regarding Webdesign galleries. Most information is as up-to-date as possible!
2. 10 Top Tips for a better blog - SmallFishBigMoney provides you with this 10 tips. You should be able to get yourself an optimized blog now!
3. Getting from PSD to HTML - Awesome step-by-step tutorial on how to get your design live in HTML and CSS. Everybody could do that after this tutorial!
4. Print Friendly Images - Learn how to create images that not only have an awesome quality on screen, but a good quality printed out as well.
5. Are RSS subscriber numbers bogus? - Interesting question Brian Clark asked his readers. You should read this for yourself. My own opinion is that RSS numbers are bogus: you should focus on the percent of RSS subscribers that actually read your articles.
Fun video:
At this moment (I am in Blanes, Spain with friends) I guess I am exactly the dude this guy is describing!
Hello boys and girls! First time on a computer since a couple days, and it is great taking a step away from the computer. If you have the possibility, you should do that too and enjoy a vacation in a sunny climat with much, much friends, girls, booz and fun.
The weather really is great, 30 degrees with a nice beach and mediterranean sea. I never saw a sea that blue! The clubs are really, really cool. We had three awesome nights already! And, the girls are very nice as well ;-).
I am signing off to go to the beach. The pictures are coming as soon as we get back so stay tuned!
In this CSS tutorial we will look deeper inside the building of a form. You see forms everywhere on the web and they are most often used to gather information about the visitors. The examples are everywhere: contact forms, polls, surveys, search forms.
There are a couple ways to produce a proper formatted form. A couple years back, I did the formatting with tables, because I simply didn’t hear from CSS (it was there, but not as popular as it is now!). It worked alright, but in today’s web-world you should better use CSS to do all your formatting.
Today, we will create a fully accessible, proper formatted form. This form should be accessible for almost everyone. (more…)
As I told you today, I am going on a vacation with my friends for two weeks. It’s a very great experience and I really looking forward to those weeks and nights with my friends. But what about my blog?
Of course I couldn’t let my blog suffer from my vacation. The blog is the thing online where I spend most of my time: working, designing, reading, editing, moderating or writing. To loose visitors while I am on vacation was not my goal so I decided to take a couple steps. You might have the same problem, so what should you do to keep your blog alive and running while you are getting away from your computer?
There are four things you should definitely do before you step out of your door:
1. Scheduled posts
2. Comment moderator
3. Guest Articles
4. Backup your installation (more…)
Yes sur! I am happy the day has finally come that I could leave with my friends to the sunny paradise Blanes, Spain. At 23:15 my flight leaves and I should arrive around 02:00, and then the time has come to party, party, and party again!
What happens with this blog in the meantime? I’ve wrote some posts to keep your entertained in the next eight days. Frank will moderate the comments and might write an article or tutorial. After I am back, I try to keep the blog running as good as possible from another vacation!
Yes, I will go on vacation two times in next two weeks. One time with my school friends, and one time with my friends from the streets!
The second week, I am staying in the Netherlands at the beach of Renesse. I have been to Renesse last year and that was really great! The sun, the girls and the beer was really lovely and I hope to see them this year as well.
Today it is 1 July 2008, the unofficial Wordpress day. Today we will blog about the greatness of Wordpress, which is in my eyes immense great!
Thanks to…
- Automattic for your work, you have always done that in a great way! The dedication and the innovation the team has brought into the work name “Wordpress” is so outstanding, we all have to love Wordpress!
Halleluja Automattic!
- The Wordpress community. Do you ever think about all those free or premium themes, all those plugins, all those wordpress-related blogs out there? They are all helping out Wordpress to the size of their success!
Halleluja for the Community!
- The Blogging crowd for choosing Wordpress as their blogging software. I know that Wordpress is the best, and fortunately the rest of the world thinks the same.
Halleluja for the blogging crowd!
- Wpcandy.com for thanking Wordpress and Automattic for their services (great sentence, right?). Halleluja WpCandy!
Today we will try to improve the usability of our forms, using the :focus selector. Unfortunately, this selector is only supported by Firefox, Safari and Opera. The Internet Explorer family completely ignore it:
Example:
Therefore we are able to use it for the other browsers as IE will not preform any action when :focus is used. We will use it today to style and improve forms in CSS for those specific browsers.
