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Web Design: Styling forms with CSS

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 Designers: Google Chrome Experiments

Google Chrome Experiments is a vibrant playground of unique, fun and innovative web experiments created using only purely Javascript, HTML5 & Canvas 3D. We take a look at some of the best and must-see Google Chrome Experiments. Continue reading

Website Design: JQuery from Scratch p2

Michael Angrave continues with his JQuery from scratch series in this part 2 of 6. Moving on from last week, you can learn how to animate basic elements using the JQuery framework’s animation effects. Continue reading

Creare’s Essential Web Designers Resources: 2009 – Part 2

Continuing on from last week, we take a look at even more of our Essential Web Designers Resources of 2009, showcasing some of our favorite blog posts and videos on CSS, HTML, jQuery and PHP. Continue reading

Web Design Books – Getting Started With CSS

In this week’s web design video blog, Nick and James review David Powers’ latest book ‘Getting StartED with CSS’. They also take a look at CSS Zen Garden which is an established website that demonstrates the flexability of CSS. Continue reading

HTML Special Character Guide

Michael Angrave looks into the issue of special characters in website design. This post contains both a web based, and PDF download reference guide, so please feel free to download and pin it to your wall. Continue reading

Essential Online Tools For Web Designers

Here at Creare, we often pass tips and links to each-other about useful free online web design resources that aid us in completing our jobs even more effectively and most importantly, to an even higher standard. Here is
our collection of what we deem the essential online tools for Web Designers
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Web design prototype tutorial – Part 3

In the concluding part on our web design tutorial on creating a prototype website, Nick and James demonstrate how to bring the site into Dreamweaver and prepare it for the client. Continue reading

Web design prototype tutorial – Part 2

In part 2 of our tutorial on making prototype web pages, James demonstrates how to take the prepared Photoshop files into Fireworks to slice them up and create roll over effects. Continue reading

Web design prototype tutorial – Part 1

In part one of this three part video blog, James and Nick demonstrate a quick and easy way for web designers to get their Photoshop prototype website online as a dummy webpage in under 10 minutes. Continue reading