Category archive: Learn
Video tutorials: Learn to write XHTML and CSS manually
After being asked about HTML/CSS coding tutorials for beginners, I ran across a site with a number of excellent guides: LearnWebCode.com. In a number of simple steps, you can learn the basics of both (X)HTML and CSS, and along with the texts you can find a number of videos that give you a visual guide…
Website analytics – The must-have tool for site owners
This website uses multiple services and scripts to gather statistics of site usage and traffic. For any webmaster, such statistics are not just interesting to view but pretty much essential to keep websites working as good as possible. The main service for the most complete and detailed stats is Google Analytics, which is an external…
Graceful degradation vs. Progressive enhancement (part 1)
The graceful degradation philosophy, making full-featured designs work acceptable on older computers and mobile devices, is more and more getting replaced by a new philosophy called progressive enhancement. In a series of posts, I’ll write about differencies between the two, and explain why I will focus on progressive enhancement in the future…
How to select the grid width in The Grid v2 template
The new version 2.0 of The Grid template includes two separate grid layouts, one that is 960 pixels wide and another that is 1200 pixels wide. Both grids use 12 columns with 20 pixels of spacing, but the column widths are diferent. The 960 pixels grid use a column width of 60 pixels while the…
What is responsive web design?
I got a question a few days ago which was really good: What does “responsive web design” mean, and why should I use it? In short, responsive web design is a term that describes the concept of building a website design in a way that allows the layout to change depending on what screen resolution…