CSS tips and tricks #15 – CSS box model without secrets

Many web designers and developers struggle with various aspects of their craft in their humble beginning. CSS box model can be of those things. I too had a problem with complete understanding this part of CSS. Margin, padding, borders, width and height. All those properties seemed confusing back then. When I finally became solid in… Continue reading CSS tips and tricks #15 – CSS box model without secrets

Why you suck as web designer

Do you feel that your web design skill are not that good as they could be? Do you feel that you are missing something? You may review the code of the project you are working on, but finding no errors. However, it just doesn’t feel good or enough. What’s more, there is still some little… Continue reading Why you suck as web designer

Design custom form in CSS, JavaScript and PHP tutorial Pt4

Finally! The last part of this tutorial series that will make your form work smoothly. In previous parts we first created the foundation for form in HTML and CSS and then we added JavaScript fallback for cases when browser does not support form validation provided by HTML5. Today, we are going to work in PHP… Continue reading Design custom form in CSS, JavaScript and PHP tutorial Pt4

The case of Dribbble and Behance

Pretty much was said about Dribbble and Behance, especially about Dribbble. If you are following discussions related to web design, you probably heard or read some of the complaints and biases. One of the often mentioned was elitism attributed to Dribbble. Haters were and still are complaining about the system Dribbble use to get new… Continue reading The case of Dribbble and Behance

Typography in Web design

It was said and repeated for many times that web is 90% typography. If you are a web designer, developer or just anyone working in web industry, typography covers huge part of your work. Typography is also one field that is often overlooked by young designers wanting to start their careers or businesses. This is… Continue reading Typography in Web design

Design custom form in CSS, JavaScript and PHP tutorial Pt3

Great to see you back! Previously we took care about placeholders, required and focus attributes by providing additional JavaScript fallbacks for the input fields. Today we will finish The JavaScript side by fixing possible problems with input fields that can appear in case when browser doesn’t support form validation included in HTML5. Without further ado,… Continue reading Design custom form in CSS, JavaScript and PHP tutorial Pt3