This video excerpt is from Bring Your Web Design to Life: Creating Rich Media Websites with Adobe Creative Suite. Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., and Peachpit Press.read more

Excerpted from The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries by Denise R. Jacobs. Copyright © 2010. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders.No matter what your level of expertise is with coding CSS, you'll probably run up against some typical miscreants that cause layout issues. With a bit of foreknowledge, however, you can code proactively and prevent CSS crimes from being committed in your code. In case you don&#

This story is taken from "Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual."To buy this book click here.read more

If you’re a photographer or print designer who hasn’t yet created a Web site that represents your work, you're almost certainly losing out on business. In the past, creating a full-fledged, professional-looking portfolio site took Web design experience and a lot of time. That's no longer true.read more

There's a lot of activity on the part of browser developers, font foundries, and online services to support a wider selection of fonts on Web pages. However, it's a bit like the Wild West: disorganized and chaotic, with multiple Web font formats and techniques fighting for supremacy. The good news is that as long as you take into account these differences, you can start using Web type now.read more

If you take a look at Photoshop's File menu you'll see a command, about midway down, called "Save for Web & Devices." It's actually two commands. There's the "& Devices" part, which lets you save an image for display on virtually every cell phone except the iPhone. No offense, but if I had to rank this feature, I doubt it'd make my Top 10,000.read more

They say that limiting your options can lead to creative solutions. This is certainly true for Web designers and typography. Since the beginning of the Web, our typographic choices have been limited by the fonts available on other people's computers. The so-called "Web safe" fonts - Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Courier, Verdana, Georgia, and a few others - have dominated Web site typography because we can't always be sure that the person on the other end of the Web brow

This article is excerpted from the October/November 2009 issue of InDesign Magazine, #32. Subscribe to InDesign Magazine.It’s been talked about for years: a paperless book that can be downloaded from a Web site and read on an electronic reading device. And now that thousands of eBooks are being downloaded every day, the eBook revolution is finally upon us. read more