The menu that Apple uses on its website is becoming more of an iconic menu bar, especially to us web designers and developers. It is really simple to create and there are a variety of states. One interesting aspect that Apple has also used here, is the CSS sprite effect. Here, we will recreate the menu using Photoshop and CSS sprites!

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There are a lot of horizontal drop menus around the web today and they are becoming more and more popular. If you have ever seen these menus and wondered how they work, then today is your lucky day! Here I will be discussing my thoughts as I build a drop down menu from scratch and add some jQuery to it to make it just that little bit more unique and special.

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Today, one of the most popular and more modern web layouts is that of the fixed width layouts. Here, we take a look a look at the advantages and disadvantages of both fluid and fixed layouts and discuss some reasons why some people may pick one over the other.

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Over the years of my web development and designing experience, I have really gained a huge amount of knowledge, comprehension and appreciation for the Internet. Back in the good old days we didn’t have much of the useful tools and organizations that we have today and hence, the profession of a web developer did have its drawbacks. Today it is quite the opposite and here you will find a list of possibly the 5 most useful web developer and designer tools out there, and best of all, they’re all free!

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The website has a global reach but Internet connection speeds in various countries are not the same. A lot of dial-ups and slow broadband connections still exist. Even for those who do have high-speed connections, the total number of relevant websites on the Internet is growing fast. This directly translates into less time spent by the viewer per web page. But the main problem for the delay in loading website is huge graphics, which are not in well formed manner.

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Whilst quite new, blogging has definitely been one of the biggest internet ventures so far. With its steadily growing rate, the Internet has become home to millions of bloggers and writers which submit their content every day. Furthermore, blogging sees about 25,000 new blogs every single day. If you don’t have a blog you should really invest in starting one today.

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As time goes on and technology advances, so does many coding styles. Before CSS was a major hit, web pages were purely designed using tables for alignment. However, through the use of CSS and its properties (float, text-align etc.) we are able to attain the same results of using tables in terms of layout and still keep our coding nice and clean. Whilst using table based designs is still around and not completely abolished, it is a primary choice that nearly all of today’s web sites rely on CSS instead of tables.

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Some of us here already know about Mozilla’s new release of Firefox 3, however some people are asking if it is worth to upgrade or simply a waste of time. No matter what you do, if you upgrade or stay with the older release, there will always be some positives and some negatives. However, in this case, the good points heavily outweigh the bad points.

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Any web developer these days has to know about the various Web Standards out there such as the W3C validation systems. Sometimes it can be a lot of trouble to stick to these standards but still maintain cross-browser compatibility. You can spend relentless hours trying to get something to work in both Internet Explorer and Firefox only to realize the whole thing isn’t even valid XHTML or CSS.

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Right now, the internet is all about blogging. One of the most popular blogging platforms is Wordpress. This nice, powerful and open source blogging software already receives huge amounts of downloads and it is becoming apparent that more and more people are using it, not only for blogging but also general websites. Today we cover a few tips and tricks and some useful plugins that really turn your plain, yet powerful, Wordpress installation into a fully loaded and super charged blogging machine!

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