Your website's favicon is a key trademark to its look. It shows up in the navigation bar as well as on browser tabs (for most browsers at least), helping users quickly pick out your website out of the crowd. Creating […]

A while back I wrote "Where to Go to Find Design Inspiration", where I listed some of my favorite places to peruse when I'm looking for design inspiration. At the end, I posed the following question to the readers: "Where […]

Editor's note: This tutorial was written by Michael Leigeber, a web designer and .NET developer who runs the Leigeber Web Development Blog - a blog that's setting the blogging community buzzing with his beautiful, lightweight JavaScript solutions. View the JavaScript […]

Ajax allows for rich-internet applications that mimic the responsiveness and complex user interfaces typically associated with desktop applications. Moving applications to the web browser opens many possibilities, including the ability to save user data, connecting with other users for collaboration […]

Here's some of the websites I keep track of to find new techniques, resources, and news about building websites.

A designer's creativity is often showcased in the little details and touches that he or she incorporates in a design. Using common, familiar objects as design elements to accent and ornament a web page is a wonderful way of showcasing […]

There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development speed, […]

MySQL is the most popular open-source database. Whether you’re an aspiring web application developer or a person working on an existing database-driven web application like a content management system, ecommerce platform, or blogging platform -- there are a variety of […]