In the world of modern web design, Favicons are considered one of the most important aspects of your website. Although it may only be 16px by 16px, the importance of this icon should not be underestimated. This is the type of polish that puts your site in a whole new league. Read more…

Today we will be talking about CSS image buttons, something that every web developer needs to know and understand. It’s really amazing how much of a difference a simple button can make on your conversion rate. In fact, I came across this comprehensive post that deals with that particular subject, check it out. This post won’t focus so much on the particulars of a high-converting button, but it will teach you how to slap together a quick CSS button that uses an image as a background. Read more…

This quick tutorial will run through the basic task of creating a custom twitter background. It’s really easy to do and makes your twitter page stand out from crowd. Whether you’re a business or an individual, if you use twitter at all it’s probably worth your time to make a custom background. Read more…

Todays topic will deal with the wonderfully painful world of animated GIFs. Specifically, how to make animated GIFs inside of Photoshop. For this tutorial I’ll be using Photoshop CS3 on a Mac, but I suspect that CS4 probably uses almost the same process. Alright, lets get started! Read more…

I’m not sure why, but so many sites seem to ignore their horrible CSS textarea style. How many times have you used a textarea that had zero padding? or even worse, it used the default “Times New Roman” font because the designer was too lazy too fix it?

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If you’re anything like me, you may have wondered how to mail HTML emails without using a fancy service like Campaign Monitor or Mail Chimp. The truth is, it’s actually much easier than you probably think. There are just a few steps you need to follow.

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