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Poll: What inspires your web design work?

Being a web designer is like any other creative pursuit. Every so often you'll need to recharge the creative batteries. I enjoy brainstorming to help me get unblocked, but I also will get inspiration from nature, my friends, and even books I'm reading. Of course, looking at other websites can be inspiring as well. Some About.com readers have shared their inspirations and you can too. What inspires your web design work?

Wordless Wednesday: What's In Your Editor - Programming Hostelmg

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XSLT can transform your XML documents

One of the things I like best about XML is how you can use it for so many different things. But when I first started using it, I would create one XML document and then when I needed another with similar content (but different XML elements) I would just write a new XML document. When I finally figured out about XSLT I was ecstatic. XSLT lets you take a set of data in an XML document and convert it into another XML document. I have used it for converting articles from a CMS into HTML (XHTML, actually) and for converting an RSS feed into a website. And Darla has a multi-page XSLT Tutorial where you'll learn the basics of XSLT, how to set up an XSLT output stream, how to use the value-of element, and much more. You'll be impressed with how useful XSLT is!

Oldy But Goody: What is the Meta Refresh Tag?

I thought it would be interesting this summer to take a look at some of my older articles that you may have missed. All of these articles have been re-worked and refreshed for your edification and enjoyment. And I thought I'd start with an article about the meta refresh tag. This is a tag that was originally created to refresh the current page, to add interactivity and allow the designer to make changes and updates without the reader needing to do anything. But browsers quickly added on the ability to load a new page rather than just the current one. And that's what most people use the meta refresh tag for. But keep in mind that search engines don't like you to use the meta refresh tag to redirect pages permanently. Some black-hat designers used them to scam people and search engines to get higher rankings. So, it's best for SEO to use a 301 server redirect instead if you need to redirect a page permanently.

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Yahoo! YUI Library

Yahoo! YUI Library
Sometimes the easiest way to learn a web design technique is to borrow from someone else. Now, a lot of designers will get angry if you borrow their code, but Yahoo! has put together an entire library of scripts and CSS that you can use to create interactive websites. There are two versions of the YUI framework. Version 2 has been available since 2006 and is very robust and proven. If you're working on sites that need interactivity, but also need to be very reliable, then this is the version you should use. Version 3 is what they call their "next generation" library. It hasn't been as widely tested, and includes things that might be more cutting edge. But if you're building sites that need more advanced (often beta) interactivity options, this is the version for you.

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Yahoo! YUI Library originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, July 25th, 2010 at 14:50:59.

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Poll: What is your job title?

Working as a Web Designer/Web Developer/Web Programmer/etc. hasn't changed astronomically in the years I've been writing this site, but have the job titles? If you are a freelancer, choose the title you're most likely to introduce yourself as. My job title has changed several times in the past 10 years. I originally was a Webmaster, then it changed to Web Developer and Web Manager. Now, I am a Web Designer. I have also worked as an Information Architect and Web Producer. What's interesting to me is that the work I do as a Web Designer isn't radically different from what I did as a Webmaster back when I first started. Yes, the languages I use have changed, but the work is remarkably similar. What is your job title? And how has it changed since you started doing web design work?

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Floating images within your layout can be automated with CSS 3

The CSS pseudo-class nth-of-type allows you to add images to your content and then float them on alternating sides. With this simple technique you can dress up your content with images and they aren't all in one long line.

Help with Pseudo-Classes

Does anyone still use two spaces after a period?

Younger web designers may be surprised to learn that the convention for typing used to require that you use two spaces after a period to help readers see the end of sentences in the monospaced fonts that typewriters used. In fact, if you learned to type on a typewriter, chances are it was very hard to break yourself of the habit (or perhaps you never did). In fact, most typesetting and desktop publishing manuals will tell you that you should only use one space after periods. And of course, web browsers collapse multiple spaces, so it's hard to get two spaces to show up. But it is possible and some people still insist on it. What do you think?

Using Whitespace

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: deploy*

deploy*
As a web designer you will find that you often build sites and pages the same way every time. Many people make themselves more efficent by creating templates of their base sites, but deploy* goes one step further and creates the files themselves for you. You can change options like what version of HTML to use (XHTML or not - no HTML 5), CSS with or without resets (or no CSS), jQuery library with plugins or not, and some other miscellaneous options. You can even name your deploy* solution and bookmark the results page to deploy the same options again later.

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: deploy* originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, July 18th, 2010 at 01:01:05.

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