If you’re designing a layout for your website, somewhere along the line you’ll have to decide how many columns you’re going to have. What do I mean by Columns? Take a look at the diagram below:
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Yearly Archives: 2007
How Many Columns Should You Have?
Jun 20, 2007 by Matt | Posted in Design, Featured No CommentsWebware 100 Winners Announced
Jun 19The Webware 100 winners have been announced. WordPress is the top in the “Publishing” category, as a lot of you have probably heard already (Woot!). Firefox is top in “Browsing”, GMail in communications. You can see all of the results here.
Time-Delay Posting
Jun 18Wouldn’t it be useful if you could write blog posts ahead of time, and have them post themselves at some arbitrary date? Most blogging software (WordPress included) can do this. Why would you want to? If you’re going on a trip, you can write…
Design Spotlight: June 17, 2007 (Ars Technica)
Jun 17Welcome to Design Spotlight. What’s Design Spotlight? I’ve decided to highlight sites with cool designs once in a while. Inspire yourself. Today we have Ars Technica. Ars Technica is one of the biggest Tech News sites on the web. If one of their posts…
Google Apps
Jun 16So, you’ve got yourself a domain. Sure, it helps people get to your website, but what else can you use it for? Google’s got the answer. Do you hate your webhost’s webmail program? Do you like GMail? Well, now you can have your own…
Script.aculo.us
Jun 16Wouldn’t it be cool if you could easily manipulate HTML elements onscreen? Wouldn’t it be nice if AJAX requests could be sent with only one line of code? Take a look at Script.aculo.us. What is Script.aculo.us? It’s a set of JavaScript files (based off…
Tables Aren’t Dead Yet
Jun 16Rarely does a day go by without someone bashing table-based design. Not long after the HTML <table> element was introduced, people started using it to lay-out their web pages. Before the days of CSS, people used tables so they could have sidebars and such.…
Starting a Great Blog Part 12 – Conclusion
Jun 15Congratulations, you’ve finished the Starting a Great Blog tutorial! By now you should have a blog that stands out from all the Blog*Spot and Livejournal users out there. Why? You spent the time, effort, and small amount of money, to start a better blog.…
Starting a Great Blog Part 11 – Social Bookmarking
Jun 14Welcome to part eleven of the Starting a Great Blog tutorial. Today we address social bookmarking, and how it’s effects on blogging. How does social bookmarking affect blogs? Have you noticed those little icons at the bottom of posts on most blogs? You know,…
Customize Feedburner’s Subscriber Count Chicklet
Jun 13Are you using Feedburner? North X East has an excellent tutorial on customizing the Feedburner Subscriber Count Chicklet. Using a WordPress plugin, and a bit of CSS, you can go from the default chicklet to something totally different. You didn’t honestly think you were…
