Pixel Mountain® Web Design - Favorite Links and Fodder for Creativity

Web sites designed with the visitor in mind

CSS

• On having layout – the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win
• Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins
• The CSShark Answers FAQs - Your CSS Tutorial (MaKo)
• Easy Random CSS Backgrounds
• 5 Ways to Instantly Write Better CSS
• SlickMap CSS (Astuteo)
• 7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed (tripwire magazine)
• Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS (for a beautiful web)
• 3 Step Process for Troubleshooting Your CSS (Es Bueno)
• CSS selectors: basic browser support (La Chatte Noire)
• Hybrid CSS Dropdowns (A List Apart)
• Easy Random CSS Backgrounds (SonSpring)
• CSS Layout Techniques (glish.com)
• Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step (webreference)
• Box Lessons (thenoodleincident.com)
• CSSREMIX (cssremix.com)
• css Zen Garden (csszengarden.com)
• CSS and round corners: Boxes with curves (webcredible)

Professional advice

• How to Write an Attention-Grabbing Professional Bio (SitePoint)
• Do Your Clients Use Their CMS? (SitePoint)

Graphic design / image editing

• Breaking Bad Habits in Photoshop (Viget Inspire)

Software we like - beyond the obvious

• OfficeTime (time tracking – generates reports and invoices, but can also be used as a simple time clock)
• Things (task management – from to-do lists to project management and prioritization)

WordPress

• 135+ Ultimate Round-Up of Wordpress Tutorials (InstantShift)
• 10 Beautiful and Functional Wordpress Themes (PsPack)
• 10 Free WordPress Theme With A Good Use of JavaScript (PV.M Garage)

Resources

• Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web (Luca Passani)
• Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization (W3C)
• MODx CMS (an open source PHP web application framework with built-in CMS)
  • MODx Tutorial (George Mason Law School)
  • Working With a Content Management Framework: MODx (Nettuts+)
  • Understanding MODx / Getting Started (MODx support forum)
• CushyCMS (simple, free, web-based CMS / content editor)
• Frog CMS (an open source content management system based on PHP and mySQL)
• 13 free CMS options for Web Design Professionals Reviewed (Web Distortion)

Accessibility

• The Inclusion Principle (A List Apart)
• Quick Reference – Web Accessibility Principles (WebAIM.org)
• Creating Accessible Forms (WebAIM.org)

Web design, HTML, technologies, general inspiration

• JavaScript, DHTML Tooltips – JavaScript Cross Browser Library (www.walterzorn.com)
• The best way to hide email address from spyders and bots
• Dive Into HTML5
• Jiggling the Web for Instant Search Engine Rankings – Says what I've always said, in almost exactly the same words: "People flogging seo (search engine optimization) services like to wrap it all up in mystical voodoo."
• 24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners – Basix (Nettuts+)
• 3 Must-Watch Topics in 2010 (SitePoint)
• How to Make the Worst Website (AlecRios.com)
• Seven jQuery Plugins That Let You Do Cool Stuff With Images (SitePoint)
• 5 Fun and Practical Htaccess Solutions (Nettuts+) – Prevent Hotlinking, Block User By IP Address, Error Documents, Redirect While Performing Upgrades, Hiding Directory Listing
• "JQuery for Absolute Beginners" Video Series (Theme Forest)
• jQuery Tutorials for Designers (Web Designer Wall)
• Five jQuery Galleries And Slideshows (SitePoint)
• 7 Rich & Creative User Interfaces and How to Create Your Own – modal windows, sliding layouts, hover, slideshows, embedded audio and podcasts, search, tabbed navigation
• ThemeForest (envato)
• Grid Style In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Resources (InstantShift)
• HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery Killer Tutorials (In the Woods)
• 22 Versatile Adobe Flash Menu and Navigation Tutorials (Speckyboy)
• How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop (Six Revisions)
• 40 Beautiful Examples of Minimalism in Web Design (Six Revisions)
• An exploration of the Highrise contacts screen (Thinkcage)
• Browser Display Statistics (w3schools.com)
• Archives for HTML and CSS (SNOOK.ca)
• Use Amazon S3 & Firefox To Serve Static Files (Nettuts+)
• High Accessibility Is Effective Search Engine Optimization (A List Apart)
• Normal display of PNG Alpha Transparency with MSIE (koivi.com)
• Flash Embedding Cage Match (A List Apart)