http://thewebgoods.com Helpful Resources for the everyday web professional Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:18:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A tribute to the king of pop... (1900 x 1200px desktop wallpaper) Click on the image for the full-size version (MJ cutout from http://www.mjjpictures.com/main.html) http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/michael-jackson-desktop-wallpaper/ I apologize for my brief sabbatical from posting on the blog. I have had numerous projects that have been keeping me busy lately and just haven't had the time to make any substantial posts of late. I have been working on some generic website templates and wanted to make one of ... http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/free-website-design-psd-download/ A couple of years ago I started getting into wordpress. More and more of the websites that I looked at in web gallery sites tended to have the little tag 'powered by wordpress' which sparked my curiosity. I downloaded it and started playing around. After some trial and error, I ... http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/three-awesome-resources-for-creating-wordpress-theme/ Hey everyone, I have recently been working on a redesign of my personal/portfolio website and decided to post it on here to let people get a sneak peak before I launch it. One of the main reasons why I am redesigning my site is because I wanted to run my site ... http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/portfolio-site-redesign/ In todays day and age it isn't enough to just have a nice looking site. You need to have a site that achieves specific goals: whether those are extremely detailed business goals or more generalized, over-arching goals... efficient websites today need to have them. One of the ways to help you ... http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/the-importance-of-web-analytics/ Brian Hoff over at thedesigncubicle.com just made an awesome post that has 14 tips to driving traffic to your newly started blog. Seeing as I really enjoyed the article, I figured I would share it. Enjoy! http://www.thedesigncubicle.com/2009/02/how-to-drive-traffic-to-your-new-design-blog http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/14-tips-to-drive-traffic-to-your-blog/ This is just a quick tip for customizing li's in your html. This is a somewhat beginner-level technique, so most of you intermediate to advanced CSS people will already know this technique. First we will start with the html code... create an unordered list with a few list items, like so... [sourcecode ... http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/css-quick-tip-custom-icon-for-a-list-item/ Over the past year or so, there has been a large emergence of self-created nicknames for web designers: Rockstars (see my previous post) , Ninjas, gurus, etc. My personal favorite is Jedi. Now this may be due to the fact that I am somewhat of a Star Wars geek or ... http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/web-designers-the-digital-jedi-of-the-internets/ Well... I can't say that I have read EVERY CSS book, but I have read quite a few. This particular book covers so much more than just CSS... The book itself is "Transcending CSS, The Fine Art of Web Design" by Andy Clark The content of the book falls under 4 ... http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/the-best-web-design-book-available/ I know that we all have our sites that we love to subscribe to and gobble up pretty much all of the content that they release. The variety of these sites usually spans a pretty broad spectrum... everything from traditional design resource sites to extremely specific css techniques. Seeing how every ... http://thewebgoods.com/index.php/the-rss-feeds-of-a-web-designer/