Pushing the Limits: Building a Semantic Four-column CSS Layout
The example we will be looking at uses a combination of relative and absolute positioning to place columns where they are supposed to go. We'll start... more »
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Glorious Web Designer: Talkin' 'Bout My Vocation
What's the most important job in the world? This question sounds like something a curious young child would ask. But closer consideration reveals that... more »
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Pushing the Limits: A Simple Four Column CSS Layout with a Little Divitis
CSS works very well for designing one and two column layouts. It's shaky but workable on three-column layouts. But if you want a four column layout,... more »
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Truth Claims and the Future of Web Design
Our view of truth is the Rosetta Stone for how we interpret life, relationships, ethics, vocation, and even design. It's the foundation of our... more »
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Pushing the Limits: The Perfectly Semantic Three Column CSS Layout
Building a three or four column layout on the web without the help of a table can be a difficult task. There are a number of ways to overcome the lack... more »
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Analyzing Web Design Through the Christian Worldview Lens
Is there really a Christian way to analyze design? Can non-religious works of creativity still be considered Christian? What makes a design good or... more »
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Beyond Redirect: Using ReWriteRule in .htaccess
Mod_rewrite is an Apache module that can be accessed from .htaccess files to perform all kinds of complicated URL manipulation. The main mod_rewrite... more »
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5 for Friday | The Week's Best Web Design Blogs (6/27/08 Edition)
5 for Friday is a weekly list of blog articles compiled by Mirificam Press. It links to the best of the web design related articles on the web.
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12 Tools I Use Every Day as an Independent Web Designer
Every web designer has a list of favorite tools—a set of indispensable programs and resources that we couldn't live a day without. Fortunately (or... more »
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Total Redesign: Mirificam Press Dissected
Bits O' NewMedia has officially made the transformation into Mirificam Press. The task of creating a new design that fit the personality and direction... more »
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5 for Friday | The Week's Best Web Design Blogs (6/20/08 Edition)
5 for Friday is a weekly list of blog articles compiled by Bits O' NewMedia. It links to the best of the web design related articles on the web.
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5 for Friday | The Week's Best Web Design Blogs (6/13/08 Edition)
5 for Friday is a weekly list of blog articles compiled by Bits O' NewMedia. It links to the best of the web design related articles on the web.
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Coaxing Web Content: How to Get Your Clients to Get You the Content You Need
No matter how well you stick to your time-line, or how hard you work to meet deadlines, or how on-top-of-it you are, missing content will shut you... more »
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The Best Online Vector Illustration Resources
Well placed vector artwork can liven up and design and give it just the spark it needs to set it apart from the competition. Here are a few of the top... more »
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The Web Design Cycle: Landing Redesign Jobs with Clients You Love
After a few years in the web design industry you'll inevitably reach a point where your first clients will be ready for a redesign of your original... more »
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Managing a Web Project from Start to Finish
Over the last eight years designing websites as a freelancer, I've developed a fairly solid process for building a website. I'll be walking through... more »
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HTML Transitional What? | The Ins and Outs of HTML Document Type
There's a divisive little tag at the top of every web page called DOCTYPE. It's not divisive because web designers disagree about what should go in... more »
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5 for Friday | The Week's Best Web Design Blogs (5/23/08 Edition)
5 for Friday is a weekly list of blog articles compiled by Bits O' NewMedia. It links to the best of the web design related articles on the web.
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Web Design Worldview: A Christian Web Design Manifesto
Just exactly how does a Christian worldview shape a web designer? Should it change the way he or she approaches ethics, style, or even layout? In this... more »
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Review: 5 Free HTML Editors that Get the Job Done
A couple months ago a subscriber commented on one of my articles asking me for a resource list of Free HTML editors. I had made mention of Adobe... more »
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5 for Friday | The Week's Best Web Design Blogs (5/16/08 Edition)
5 for Friday is a weekly list of blog articles compiled by Bits O' NewMedia. It links to the best of the web design related articles on the web.
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Simple and Stunning (Part 2): 10 Website Designs that Inspire
This is the second list of ten inspiring website designs posted by Bits O' NewMedia. The list is a compilation of designs that use simplicity rather... more »
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5 for Friday | The Week's Best Web Design Blogs (5/9/08 Edition)
5 for Friday is a weekly list of blog articles compiled by Bits O' NewMedia. It links to the best of the web design related articles on the web.
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Web Design Worldview: Making Nonsense Out of the Hybrid Worldview
The hybrid worldview is the mutant offspring of modernism and post-modernism. It's by far the dominant philosophy amongst designers right now. This... more »
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Web Designer Reputation: Convincing the World You Know What You're Doing
How do you build up a reputation in an industry that has no real standard—where similar products are being produced by such a diverse group of people... more »
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