What’s new in CSS3 Values and Units?

by David Storey | about.me/dstorey :: In CSS3 the values and units we can use in CSS properties are defined in the appropriately named CSS Values and Units specification, with the exception those relating to colour and images, and the pre-defined keywords specific to individual properties. This spec gives us one new CSS wide keyword to play with (the initial keyword), five new relative units for lengths, five new functional notations, and various new types and units to support new CSS3 modules such as Grid [read more]

 
How to Design a Mobile Responsive Website

Elaine Simpson | October 25th, 2011 | To build a mobile site or not to build a mobile site; this is a question at the forefront of many a discussion. There is, however, another option: responsive web design. When, why, and how should you go about designing a responsive website? With mobile internet users set to surpass desktop internet users in the US by 2015, with tablets becoming more popular, and even with TV internet usage increasing, it’s important for companies to provide a great [read more]

 
Customizing the WordPress Dashboard For Your Clients

Harish Chouhan on Sep 16th 2011 | wp.tutsplus.com :: Have you recently started using WordPress for your client’s project and want to further impress your client with better packaging? This article will focus on packaging WordPress so that, in just few minutes after completion of a project, it will feel more unique to the client and not have the generic feel.   A great product comes with great packaging. When you develop a website for your client, packing it well adds the additional feel good [read more]

 
12 Useful Customization and Branding Tweaks for the WordPress Dashboard

Connor Turnbull on Sep 27th 2011 | wp.tutsplus.com :: The dashboard is somewhat the heart of a blog. It controls all the content and the options of your blog. But, as we know, WordPress is not a custom product specific to one type of blog, but rather something that has been created to accommodate a wide variety of bloggers. Therefore, the contents of the dashboard can be pretty generic and might need a bit of customizing to be optimized for your website’s type. This is [read more]