Posts Tagged ‘tips & tricks’

• • 10 Jun 2009
  • Tagged with CSS, inheritance, tips & tricks, web design

  CSS inheritance – remember your parent0

  Time for a little CSS puzzle! Today I was faced with an issue I couldn’t find a quick solution for. Fortunately a developer had a good suggestion …

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• • 23 Feb 2009
  • Tagged with color, CSS, graceful degradation, rgba, tips & tricks, web design

  Background fallbacks2

  RGBA colors are a very cool part of the CSS3 spec, but maybe you refrained from using RGBA because you wanted to support older browsers? Well, there is a perfectly simple fallback mechanism: provide two backgrounds.

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• • 30 Jun 2008
  • Tagged with illustrator, tips & tricks, web design

  An Illustrator in an online world5

  There has been quite a bit of debate lately about the web designer’s toolbox. To Photoshop or not, that is the question. Or rather put some Fireworks into your mock-ups? Let’s skip these and go straight to my weapon of choice: Illustrator. Read on for some reasons why, and a couple of tricks to get you going.

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