Archives for the 'html' Category

How hexadecimal colors work [Hack Your Day]

Do you use some tool like Photoshop or an online color picker to choose your HTML colors? We use things like #ffffcc and #454545, who knows what these are and what they are doing here eh? Well as you will see hexadecimal is not that complicated at all, let’s take a look.
I bet many more [...]

28 March 2008 | Web Design, color, css, hexadecimal, html, rgb | No Comments

Using Notepad++ to edit online files [Hack Your Day]

While I was updating the look of my blog I found Notepad++, a Windows notepad replacement one of the most useful tools ever. It gives you syntax highlighting for many programming languages, advanced search and replacement features, line collapsing, ftp down and uploading and so on, but if you just need a simple text editor [...]

18 March 2008 | Desktop Software, Notepad++, PHP, Productivity, ftp, html | No Comments

Slim down CSS with shorthand [Hack Your Day]

If some of you are into tweaking your sites and blogs you may dabble in CSS sometimes. If you want to be all productivity about it, I suggest you “learn” CSS shorthand. Not that there’s too much to learn, it’s just basically a way of writing less inside the file, to make it smaller, hence [...]

16 March 2008 | Productivity, Web Design, code, css, html | No Comments

Default stylsheets to learn web design [Hack Your Day]

While browsing through some info on official css specs and best practices, I came across a cool feature on the W3C homepage. They have a tool that lets you view four sites with eight different core stylesheets. You can also view the pages without styling, or you can take a look at just the style [...]

30 January 2008 | Productivity, Web Design, css, html | No Comments