Web Design News

Browse our archive of web design industry news that’s regularly posted by the web design team at Creare. Don’t forget, if you have any questions, comments or contributions, you can leave them on the comments feed at the bottom of each post.

Web Design CSS Layered Backgrounds

Posted on Tue 16th Mar 2010 1

James describes an interesting technique for making layered CSS backgrounds. Have a look at his latest post and try it out for yourself. Continue reading →

Web Design: Styling forms with CSS

Posted on Tue 9th Mar 2010 1

James proposes a good method for styling your forms using CSS, W3C compliant code and as few elements as possible. Read this tutorial and start making some nicely laid out forms! Continue reading →

Web Design tip for Dreamweaver: Source Format

Posted on Tue 2nd Mar 2010 0

If you are tired of messy xHTML code, then have a look at this simple walk-through by James. You will learn how to easily format your xHTML code and get around some quirks that could render your code invalid. Continue reading →

Website Design and Mocial Networking

Posted on Wed 3rd Feb 2010 0

Michael Angrave looks into mobile browsing trends and predictions for 2010. Looking at the mobile devices first uses, right through to where everything could be heading, have a read of this interesting account of what you should expect to see as we head delve further, into Mocial Networking! Continue reading →

A decade of website design

Posted on Sat 2nd Jan 2010 1

Creare’s Michael Thomas writes about the past decade of website design, focusing on some of the Internet’s biggest and most popular websites. Continue reading →

CKEditor for user friendly CMS input

Posted on Wed 30th Dec 2009 1

Check out Adam’s latest blog post about CKEditor. CKeditor is a simple JavaScript extension to any form that integrates seamlessly with PHP. It is open source, free and completely customisable. Continue reading →

The SEO Song – Now on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon MP3

Posted on Mon 16th Nov 2009 0

Since it’s launch in September, The SEO Song has gone on to be featured across many popular SEO and Web Design blogs. We’re now pleased to announce that you can download the SEO Song on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon MP3. Continue reading →

Web Design Tutorial – CSS Optimisation Video

Posted on Fri 11th Sep 2009 8

Today’s web design video blog is a little bit different as we are featuring this episode as a guest post in association with webdesignlessons.com Continue reading →

Creating a Date Box for WordPress

Posted on Wed 26th Aug 2009 1

Michael Angrave works through a simple tutorial for adding a date box to your WordPress Blog. Using HTML, PHP and CSS you can enhance your web design skills with this nice little WordPress Wonder Continue reading →

Web Design with PHP Includes – W3C compliance error

Posted on Wed 5th Aug 2009 0

If you saw our video blog the other week on designing webites with PHP Includes, then you may have noticed that in the demonstration . . . Continue reading →