Web design tutorials

Designing for the web can be a frustrating process at times — the way different browsers and screen resolutions render HTML and CSS makes the internet a very fluid medium. These tutorials are offered in the hope that they will save you banging your head on the keyboard quite so often.

Guide to PVII ShowPic

ShowPic is a very versatile commercial Dreamweaver extension from Project Seven that makes it possible to create online image galleries that don't take forever to download. It comes with extensive documentation of its own, but there's much, much more it can do. Read more...

Centering content without tables

Another Dreamweaver extension from Project Seven (this time a free one) — Layout Designer 2 — makes light work of moving layers (absolutely positioned divs) wherever you want on the screen. At first glance, it appears overwhelming, but is easy to use once you understand the principles that lay behind it. Read more...

Planning to move to XHTML

Is it worthwhile moving to XHTML? If so, when? It's not an easy decision, but it's almost certainly one that all web designers will have to make sooner or later. Read more...