A few years ago, resolutions used by people going online were only a few, so designing sites using fluid layouts wasn’t something you had to do to be sure everyone’s happy. With the large scale introduction of wide resolution monitors, mobile devices like the iPad or the netbooks, fluid design became much more important, and so happened with tools created to help you get this job done. Today, we’ll talk about Tiny Fluid Grid, pictured below.

Tiny Fluid Grid was inspired [...]

To be honest, I don’t think design can be done without using some guides, at least from time to time. Sure, most designers have a different way of seeing things than “normal” people, but I don’t think any of them has any guidelines inside the head… because this is today’s subject, and the tool to come with it is simply called Baseline.

Keeping typographic standards in mind, the guys from ProjetUrbain.com built Baseline with the goal of making website development easier. [...]

Some time ago, creating menus for a site was nothing less but art. I only said “menus,” yes? Good, because when talking about animated menus, we were already stepping into “Voodoo land” already, at least for most people using the Internet back then! Now, creating animated/dynamic menus has become a trivial task, and Kwicks is here to prove that.

Since this time there’s no big story to tell, let me tell you only this: Kwicks is a jQuery plugin that allows [...]

Coding stuff can easily replace graphics design work in some cases, and rounding corners is one of those cases. I don’t know about you, but I bumped into some browser-related issues with corners nicely rounded in a Photoshop file that was cut into HTML code with nicely sliced images from the PSD template more than once, and it gets so frustrating, that even once is a few times too many!

What to do? CSS comes to save the day, and today’s [...]

Some time ago, I was talking about very simple tools that come with a single purpose, and those online behemots some love while others hate, like the SEOmoz tools package, for example. Now, the time has come for another really straightforward tool, namely Spiffy Corners, sometimes referred to as Rounded CSS Corners.

Since I already told you about the “nickname” of Spiffy Corners, the secret is no longer a secret – this online tool helps you easily create a box with [...]

Considering the fact that we’re in 2009, and not 1995, delivering pictures on your website in a nice outfit is one of those things you shouldn’t miss. After all, with tools like ColorBox around, adding frames or slideshows becomes a real pleasure, so why not go for it?

The idea behind ColorBox is very simple – you have a 9KB worth of JavaScript code jQuery plugin that’s highly customizable and very easy to use, and you allow it to help you [...]

Choosing the right font and general text styling can be a real pain sometimes, and that’s why I decided to tell you about TypeTester, a free online resource that’s more than just a dummy text generator, allowing you to easily pick the best settings for your ongoing projects involving a lot of text areas.

With TypeTester, there’s no need to create any kind of account or to download some piece of code – all you have to do is open the [...]

Talent is everything, but if you’re not working in a standardized manner, you will waste most of it. Obviously, we’re not talking about sculpture here, since displaying sitemaps won’t help other people than Web designers, but this isn’t a blog for other professionals, so… let’s lend a hand to developers and talk about SlickMap CSS, shall we?

Suitable for most sites you may be working on, SlickMap CSS can accomodate up to three levels of page navigation, as well as additional [...]

A few years ago, I messed with CSS for a while, and despite the fact working with it can get pretty tricky sometimes, learning the basics is pretty easy. Since most problems appear when having to handle complex layouts, having a little helper by your side can’t hurt, don’t you think?

The little CSS helper I just spotted is simply called Elastic, and its purpose is to turn the creation of elastic, liquid and fixed layouts into a child’s play. This [...]

I am not JavaScript-powered, but I kept flipping around last night. Oh, yeah, the heat… but since I mentioned flipping, let’s take a look at a useful jQuery plugin that will make your webpage content flip like a card, shall we?

Jon Raasch is a Web developer and SEO expert who spared bits of his precious time to write QuickFlip, and he went even one more step ahead, making it freely available to those in need!

The purpose of this plugin is [...]