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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We all have seen Wordpress sites with repeating backgrounds that span beautifully across the entire page. This property is usually applied in the body tag of your template. What about those portfolio websites that use a different background image in the front page? Or those magazine styled websites that apply different backgrounds for their [...]