Top tips for writing clean and readable code

Posted January 24th, 2010 in Articles, Tips, Web Design

Writing clean code

Making your code readable provides a good start for others to modify and build upon your own work. From making useful comments to consistent indentation, there are a number of best practices which can help improve the readability of your code and improving your free web templates! Read on for a few of our top tips.

Indepth: CSS3 – All about borders

Posted September 7th, 2009 in Articles, Tutorials, Web Design

CSS3: All about borders

Following on from our previous article about the changes in background properties in CSS3, we’re now going to look at the changes and new features of borders in CSS3. Things to look forward to include the ability to easily create rounded corners and using images for borders. Plus – how to add drop shadows to elements using just CSS!

Indepth: CSS3 – All about backgrounds

Posted September 6th, 2009 in Articles, Tutorials, Web Design

CSS3 Previews: Backgrounds

CSS3 is something a lot of web designers and coders are getting very excited about thanks to numerous new properties and changes designed to make life a whole lot easier. In this blog post we’ll explore the new background properties which CSS3 will introduce plus the core changes since CSS2 and guide you through using them!

5 ways to optimize your webpages

Posted September 2nd, 2009 in Articles, Web Design

Optimize your web pages

Even though internet connection speeds are increasing faster than ever there is still no excuse not to optimize your webpages to make them load even quicker and provide content faster than ever. In this blog post we’ll highlight 5 ways which can help reduce the file size of your webpages and make them load faster providing a much better user experience for visitors.

10 SEO tips for designers

Posted August 17th, 2009 in Articles, Tips, Web Design

10 SEO tips

Often when designing a website designers overlook some SEO tips and techniques that can improve the final website’s search engine results page rankings. In this blog post we’ll highlight 10 quick and easy SEO tips all designers should be using in their layouts.