Commenting on Code in Code

Ever wonder how web designers keep everything in such neat order when they’re typing out their code? Well, commenting helps a lot in organizing.

CSS for the Phone

With the world of web expanding to mobile devices, designers must remember that ‘fantastic’ on a computer may be ‘horrifying’ on someone’s phone. However, CSS can help. By using an alternate style sheet, the computer and all the web wandering phones out there are covered.

3 ways to apply CSS to HTML

If you’re setting out to learn how to use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), the first step may not be learning the language but learning where to put the language. It turns out there are 3 ways to apply CSS to your HTML.
Note: With tools like jQuery and old-fashioned JavaScript, some might say there [...]

Common style sheets across multiple sites

While designing UA News, Dialog, and Research Magazine, it quickly became apparent that the similarities between the three sites lent itself well to using a common style sheet.  Because these sites share content and are related in some way, it was important that the design elements should be similar across the board to create that [...]

One way to do rounded rectangles with CSS background images

I recently completed a redesign of the K-12 Summer Programs website, which provides information on UA summer camps for young people, from toddlers to high school students. The page layout comes from a standard template I use for Undergraduate Admissions microsites, with a crimson nameplate bar at the top of the page and a [...]