5 Good Practices In E-commerce Design & Development

In: Web Design

18 Jun 2009
One way or another you will get to know what e-commerce website is, and believe me - this won't be an easy task to cope with. Especially if it comes to designing one. Well, if you struggle to get something other than standard 3-column osCommerce layout, then this is the article for you.

5 Good Practices In E-commerce Design & Development

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CSS horizontal menu with search form tutorial part 2 – coding

In: CSS Tutorials

14 May 2009
Yesterday we have started designing our new menu bar in Photoshop. Today we will focus on coding our menu to HTML and CSS. With the ready PSD template provided before we can all begin by opening it in Photoshop and hide all text layers. Using rectangular marquee tool select the inner part of the menu (without borders) and transform selection to achieve width around 2px and the full height of the menu (mine is set to be around 35px). Copy the merged selection (you don't need to merge the layers, just use Ctrl+Shift+C to hard-copy the selection) and create a new file with clipboard image dimensions and paste the content into the new canvas.
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CSS horizontal menu with search form part 1

In: CSS Tutorials

11 May 2009
Today we will have a closer look at the horizontal menu creation using CSS and Photoshop. I suppose that you have basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and you know your way around Photoshop CS series. But this won't be any other horizontal menu. Sometimes life requires us to put search form within the menu, whether on the left or right side. some may wonder how it works, but it's nothing very difficult. Let's start with creating a sample menu in Photoshop. For that purpose I will use one of the sites I have been working on recently. Draw a rectangular shape of desired width and height and add some styling like gradient and stroke with values displayed on images.
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Browsers Compatibility with CSS standards

In: Browsers| Web Design| Web Development

7 May 2009
During the time when Internet Explorer was the only browser widely available thanks to Microsoft's Windows systems some smart people created Cascade Style Sheet which helps us define the looks of the website without any hassle. Since then CSS went through a lot of improvements leading to new abilities, optimizing its structure and giving designers new possibilities. Then the market spawned open-source browsers like Firefox or Safari and the revolutions begun.

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Who am I and what I do as web designer

In: Trivia| Web Design

27 Apr 2009
There is no real blog without its author, so basically here we go. My name is Matt and I live in Manchester. I'm a Web Designer at one of the best SEO companies here in UK, and I am pretty much enjoying my life here. This blog isn't directly about me, but about everything that revolves around my life as a web designer. My fields of interests are maybe not very sophisticated, but I do take pride in what I do. Continue reading »
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