Archives for the 'Web Design' Category
Use Google’s Cache to retrieve code [Hack Your Day]
As I was happily updating my theme on Hack Your Day I managed to overwrite the index.php file of my website danielpataki.com instead of the one for Hack Your Day. I only noticed now, so I had no undo option and no local copy, since I just made that page 2 days ago and hadn’t [...]
Fluency admin theme for Wordpress [Hack Your Day]
I’ve praised the new Wordpress admin theme in the past, but I’ve found a theme called Fluency that is so cool, I just have to show you. I first saw it at MUO when posting and it looks breathtaking. It has a darker approach, but I wouldn’t say the design has a dark feeling. In [...]
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 [...]
Google code university [Hack Your Day]
I’m probably a little late with this info, but Google has released Google Code University, a page simply built around teaching people code. It already features some AJAX and CSS stuff plus some more and I bet they’ll expand a lot on this.
Knowing Google, in a year this will all be integrated with Google Maps, [...]
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 [...]
How to use link exchange [Hack Your Day]
After receiving an email from someone about a link exchange offer (which I initially marked as spam), I was actually contacted by the sender. I unmarked it as spam, but the offer was nevertheless quite useless. Here are some of my thoughts on link exchange and how I think it should be done best, both [...]
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 [...]