Posting suspended while on vacation

March 17th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes

There will be no new posts until the next week (March 24) as there haven’t been any for the past few weeks already due to the studies and the current vacation.

Topics for the upcoming articles include: how to automatically create thumbnail images for the blog post excerpts (from the images inside the article), and how to create one sentence post excerpts using regular expressions (REGEX) and PHP. Therefore — stay subscribed.

How to Create Beautiful and Elegant HTML Lists Using CSS

February 24th • 25 Comments • Under: Design Suggetions • Tags: code, css, Design, development

HTML list have become one of the most used HTML elements for marking-up various semantic content structures — navigation, comments and even image galleries.

This article will explain and show you how to style lists inside blog posts, articles or other basic HTML documents.

Before we start, it is necessary to understand the importance of using specific HTML tags <ul> and <ol>, instead of simple numbering (like 1., 2. or •, ») for building lists. By applying content a semantic structure, we emphasize the relationships between different content elements. In case of lists we are able to imply that there is a certain relationship between all of the list members, which is possibly described by the paragraph introducing the list. It also helps screen reader users for whom the total number of items is announced before the rest of the list. Read more »

Woolgathering — Daily Sketches and Drawings by Elizabeth Perry

February 23rd • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags: drawing

Amazing little drawings/sketches in various techniques by Elizabeth Perry published every day at woolgathering since January 2005. Be sure to have a look at one of her other projects — museum drawing project.

Web Design Critique: Consistency and Homogeneity of the Blog Layout

February 19th • 10 Comments • Under: Design Suggetions, Web Critique • Tags: critique, suggestion, web design

Blogherald.com is a blog featuring news from all around the blogosphere since 2003, and is run by a dozen of contributors and writers. It was founded by Duncan Riley from Australia and is now owned by Splashpress Media. The Blog Herald has gone through multiple design and layout variations, including the latest one made by Brian Gardner.

Web design and design in general should never be judged from the aesthetic viewpoint or by how much one likes/dislikes a particular color scheme, typeface or the layout of different content elements. The purpose of design is to make the content organized and accessible to the widest target audience possible. Design should be the information highway without traffic jams and clearly marked road labels which don’t require any Design Positioning System (DPS) in order to navigate. Read more »

Podcast of the week: WordPress Weekly

February 9th • 3 Comments • Under: Podcast of the Week, WordPress • Tags: blogging, podcast, suggestion, WordPress

If you are a WordPress user, you should definitely check out the WordPress Weekly podcast hosted by Jeff from Jeffro2pt0.com. It covers the latest and greatest in the world of WordPress — from news, plugin and theme reviews to general discussions about the online publishing.

The show is recorded live every Friday evening at 21:00 EST using the TalkShoe recording platform. It follows the round table discussion format where apart from the panel of guests also any of the listeners can call in and have their own say about the topics being discussed. Read more »