David Dylan Jessurun: Tutorials

Web users are web-builders

Redesigning: Weirdness may ensue

I am working on a rather unimpressive, in terms of look and feel, but quite badly needed, in terms of code, redesign. You know how it is: fix upon fix... before you know it things are a mess. Anyway, I'm ...

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final-run-away-run-away

posted on:
2010-01-18

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A dragon in Photoshop

I play Dungeons & Dragons. I admit it. I love it. Besides; it was my love of games and my interaction with the game's inventor (Gary Gygax, RIP old bear), whom I was proud to call a friend for a while, that ...

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tips

posted on:
2010-01-03

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Some (very) simple tips, part 2

Continued from Some (very) simple tips.

I still get that nagging voice saying: “They know all that, you are not telling them anything new”, but I also still meet designers who don’t know these things. ...

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graffiti-thumbnail

posted on:
2009-12-27

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Tutorial: Street art header

Level: easy.

It’s the holiday season. I felt like a break from the usual seriousness, and I haven’t done a tutorial in a while. So, just for fun, and perhaps some edification, I present you a simple way ...

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tips

posted on:
2009-12-06

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Some (very) simple tips

It’s been a while since I did a tutorial. Doing tutorials takes a lot more time than regular articles, that’s one reason. A constant nagging voice in my head saying “They know all that, you are not ...

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padding

posted on:
2009-11-22

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Padding the Margin

The box model is probably one of the least understood items when it comes to web development. It is certainly the most frustrating if it doesn’t seem to behave. It’s a tool, and like all tools, it works ...

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thumb-progress-bar-1

posted on:
2009-09-15

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Attractive graphs 2

The progress bar pt. 2 Providing the user with feedback regarding what the interface is doing, the status, is often a requirement for accessibility and usability. If not, it is still strongly ...

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thumb-progress-bar-1

posted on:
2009-09-09

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Tutorial: Progress bar

One of the most often heard gripes about accessibility is that it supposedly forces developers to build ugly websites. This is not true, but to get some of the pretty stuff clients and users want, we do need ...

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