A new addition in Dreamweaver CS4 is the Spry Tooltip which adds a tooltip to a specific trigger, ie text or image. Place the cursor in the desired position and head to Insert>Spry>Spry Tooltip. This will add all the necessary ...

SINCE THE RELEASE of Flash Player 9 we’ve been able to enjoy videos at full screen, leaving the browser behind. With the latest release of Flash Player 10 there is even more reason to take advantage of this ...

A footer sits at the bottom of a page ready to be read. We show you how to make sure it sticks to the bottom of the browser window. A STICKY FOOTER effectively sticks to the bottom of a ...

You’re probably familiar with the LoVe-HAte rule – that being the rule that your link states should be in the order link-visitedhover- active. Why? Specificity! Because a:link, a:hover, and so on all have the same specificity, the order ...

GREIG ANDERSON of Effektive (www.effektivedesign.co.uk) is a 27-year-old graphic designer. Originally from Aberdeen, Scotland he graduated with a BA (Hons) Graphic Design degree in 2004 and has previously spent four years working within the Scottish/UK design industry at multi-disciplinary agency ...

HTML 5 will include tools to play and display video and audio inside the browser, with just one simple HTML tag. While they’re crucial currently, you may find yourself asking ‘who needs plug-ins now?’ BROWSER PLUGINS ARE, to say the least, awkward. You never know just what your users have installed, ...

To help us compile our next cover feature on Web Designer 160, we're asking Flash experts to contribute advanced techniques and resources. So if you consider yourself to be an experienced user or work within professional Flash design and ...

WEB TYPOGRAPHY is effectively the creation of good-looking text combinations using the fonts and style currently available. To create an effective typography style, the first step is to look at what text needs styling. A typical example is a blog post ...

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT hi-res stock can be costly. However, you may find a great free image, only to see it’s suffering from blur due to a lower resolution. So here’s a handy tip that’ll improve your images. Begin by duplicating ...

Ensure you get the RSS you’re after with Feed Informer RSS FEEDS ARE a great way to insert the latest up-to-date news into your web pages without the hassle of actually having to source the stories. Simply find an RSS feed that ...