Normally when you want to add videos into your web pages – automatically you think of Youtube. All you need is a Youtube account, upload your video, embed the code and your ready to go! But what if you want to do something more? Something like changing how the player looks, maybe add a different [...]

Now we have come to part 2 of this series on how to create a single page portfolio from scratch. This part focuses on the HTML and CSS mark up to convert our .psd file to a living web page. The tools we need for this is of course – Photoshop, an HTML editor (in [...]

Whenever I download a Wordpress theme there’s hardly ever a time that I leave it as is. Almost for sure – I will have to change some things to customize according to the site’s identity. For instance, maybe I’d want to match the heading styles to a company logo, or change the background colors to [...]

Ahhh – so many choices when it comes to what open source software to use: Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal…but aren’t they at times – a little overkill? For smaller web designers like myself, I still get the usual client who just wants a simple website to advertise their services. Most of the time they will have [...]

I’m a big fan of Woothemes. It seems that each time they come out with a theme – they push the boundaries of web design. Take a look at their latest creation: Therapy – I can’t help but fall in love with the fine background gradients, smooth and seamless transparencies and nice rounded edges. But [...]

Grid based web design is becoming an art that each web developer must master. News portals, magazine layouts as well as showcase websites all adhere to the intricacies of the grid – which when mastered, is definitely a good addition to your web skill arsenal.
We all know that a typical grid design uses some [...]