Filed under Code, Coding, Contests, css3, drupal, html5, Joomla, psd to html, Web Design, Wordpress by Cameron
Designing a new website is great, but not everyone loves taking their PSD designs and converting them into actual, working HTML and CSS. In fact, there are some designers who positively hate it (and often get someone else to do that part for them rather than suffer through it themselves). A PSD to HTML service [...]
Continue Reading "Win $1,000 in PSD to HTML services!"Filed under best practices, Code, CSS, font embedding, font-face, Fonts, Typography, Web Design, web fonts by Cameron
Webfont embedding is so widely supported by modern browsers at this point that there’s really no excuse not to incorporate them when appropriate in your designs. There are hundreds of free fonts available for embedding, as well as plenty of paid services that allow you to include commercial fonts in your designs. A lot of [...]
Continue Reading "Options for @font-face implementation"Filed under Browsers, Chrome, cloud storage, Code, Design, development, Extensions, Google, screen capture, screenshots, Web Designers, Web Developers by JK Thomas
For many web designers and developers, Firefox is unsurpassable. For others, Firefox eats Chrome’s dust. For the past two years, since Google Chrome’s release, there’s been a raging debate on which browser is superior. Mozilla’s open source product has stood the test of time and Firefox has quickly become the second most used browser after [...]
Continue Reading "25+ Must-have Chrome extensions for web designers and developers"Filed under Code, code faster, coding tips, General, Tips, Tools by Jeffrey Way
Twice a month, we revisit or update some of our readers’ favorite posts and sessions from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published last September.
Doesn’t the title say it all? There are a wide variety of tools and…
Continue Reading "11 Tools to Instantly Code Faster"Filed under apis, Code, Coding, developers, google api, Programming, Resources, yahoo api by Walter
An application programming interface (API) is a set of rules and specifications that software programs can follow to communicate or ‘interface’ with each other. As developers are well aware, there are hundreds of APIs out there for doing almost anything you could imagine online. Some are better than others, and some are definitely more useful [...]
Continue Reading "40 useful APIs for web designers and developers"Filed under bookmarklets, Code, How to, how to make a bookmarlet, javascript, js, Programming, Tips by Walter
Bookmarklets are special links that users can add to their browser’s favorites. These special links include code (i.e. not just a target URL), and they trigger various kinds of useful functionality, allowing you to modify and extend any web page. Once you begin using and building your own, you will no longer see web pages [...]
Continue Reading "The secret power of bookmarklets"Filed under Code, CSS, css3, HTML, HTML 5, html5, Programming, wireframing by Walter
It’s a classic case of Photoshop versus website. Existing wireframing and prototyping tools are incapable of accurately reflecting the environment of the web. They produce static designs that can’t be seen through the variable known as the web browser. And when you build the final website, some elements won’t look exactly like their draft counterparts, [...]
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