Do you use a to-do list? Most of us have some kind of running list of tasks which we want to get done (even if we keep this list in our heads). And I expect that at some point, like me, you’ll have had the experience of creating an extremely ambitious to-do list … only to end up completing...

We’re coming close to the end of this series. Last week I posted about gray, with some examples of its use in web design. This week, we’re going darker and the focus is on black. Like grey, black provides a near-neutral background which allows other elements of the design to stand out. A lot of...

Well… we can teach you. Seriously. No strings attached. All you need is enough spare time to read approximately 4 million threads and you’ll be an expert. That is the power of the SitePoint Forums! For those of you that don’t have that kind of time (or inclination), I’m going...

Microsoft have reported that sales of Windows 7 have reached 90 million copies just 6 months after the new OS was launched to the public on October 22 2009. The sales figures are more than double those of Vista throughout a similar period. Perhaps that’s not surprising: Vista obtained a bad reputation...

Today we’re excited to present Rapid Prototyping with SketchFlow, a tutorial by respected user experience professional Shane Morris. Shane starts off by touching on the history of prototyping tools, and the complex challenges that they once posed for designers who found themselves having to curtail...

It’s not something we’ve done before, so I thought it was worth sharing the news. For years we’ve offered a free sample for each of our books; a sizeable download comprising several chapters. jQuery: Novice to Ninja is no different, we’ve made 3 out of 9 chapters freely available...

In my previous post, I described how I use Evernote to manage and track topic ideas for the blogs I write for. Evernote is only one of many note-taking applications out there, and they all share a huge benefit – the ability to save information that you want to review again later in one easy-to-access...

I want to make it clear from the outset that I think Opera is great. I have it installed and use it regularly, but it’s never become my default browser. Opera currently holds 2% of the worldwide desktop market. It’s never moved significantly beyond that figure despite a constant rate of...

There are two ways you can go when designing a 404 page for your website – you could go the sensible route and make it usable and try to help the reader find exactly what they were looking for or, you could design a 404 page that not only defines the character of the web site or the designer,...

by Kevin Yank On the SitePoint Podcast #51 this week, we discussed what Sexy Web Design author Elliot Jay Stocks had to say about designers who don’t know their CSS from their elbow: Honestly, I’m shocked that in 2010 I’m still coming across “web designers” who can’t code their...

Google announced last week that they had aquired the web-based photo-editing app Picnik. Picnik started in 2005 and was one of first online photo-editing sites. It’s a very busy site, with almost 40 million visitors each month. On the company blog, a clearly very excited staff member (and...