A mouse hover is a really simple event. When you get a mouseover event you do someting. When you get a mouseout event you usually restore things to the original state.
Mouse hovers were virtually unheard of in the desktop user interface world. I remember writing some very sophisticated applications (games, graphical drawing packages, etc.) and [...]
In part four of this series, Joshua David McClurg-Genevese shows existing web layouts and explains how their visual impact works.
“I have reviewed eight designs. I will discuss each one in detail, highlighting the principles and/or elements of design that they make best use of. I’ve included a sample screen shot and a more abstract [...]
“This is for designers who are going to be working with Rails and is intended to give them a good starting point to jump into work with a Rails developer. This is all introductory material. As such, I cover some basics (MVC, locations of files) and move from there to a code example and more [...]
An important design element that’s part of the whole AJAX business is somehow letting your user know that stuff is actually happening while the server crunches away. A common way to do so, is to add a little animated GIF that is only shown when the AJAX request is happening.
This site features some great css styles for use with your tabular data. If you have to use tables to display some data, there is a style here for you.
Greg Storey goes into detail on the phases and different directions of the design process used during The making of Ma.gnolia.
Another css gallery site for some daily inspiration. Design Shack offers regular examples of great CSS, standards based design to help inspire and create. We feature any website which shows off some flair, and doesn’t fit into the standard pattern we come to expect from CSS design.
Here are 14 resources that will help you make your site more attractive. These are not tutorials but rather images, patterns, and icons ready for use, and everything is free. I know you will like them because I use them too. So enough talking, and on with the links.
As designers we all like to think that we know every thing there is to know about typography – but do we? Because of the popularity with Microsoft Word most people are familiar with word processing but many do not learn the art of typography. Typography is a skill when executed well can brings great [...]
It takes advantage of an unusual combination of implementations – IE7 and Opera 9 support CSS3 substring-matching attribute selectors, but they don’t support the negation pseudo-class; other current browsers which support one or the other, support them both. We can further distinguish Opera 9 from IE7 by the former’s support for CSS3 [...]
