Author Profile

Home » Author Profile

Alex Walker

Alex WalkerAlex manages design and front end development for SitePoint.com and writes SitePoint's monthly design newsletter, the SitePoint Design View. He also maintains Pixel Perfect, SitePoint's Web Design Blog.

Send Alex a message.

Alex Walker has written 14 articles for SitePoint with an average reader rating of 8.5.

Most recent articles written by Alex

CSS3: To Infinity And Beyond!
Cameron Adams on Designing Google Wave
Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups
Fixing Fancy Font Frustrations
3 Cool Tricks You Can Only Do In Photoshop CS4
6 Things To Like About Dreamweaver CS4
A Designer's Guide to HTML Email
Warning: This Secret CSS Technique Will Surprise You!
Google Web Site Optimizer Tool: I Told You So
jQuery: Easy JavaScript for Designers
Alex has written 14 articles in total. Show all articles.

All blog posts from Alex

GazoPa Lets You Sketch Your Search
Interesting CSS Quirks: Border-spacing
Squishing the Last Drops from Your PNGs
Do You Need Cake if the Icing is Amazing?
Geeks Just Wanna Have Fun = #songsincode
Hillary, IE6 and the State of the State Department
Google, HTML5 and Standards
Falcon Grabs Screens with Talon
Outlook 2010 to Set New Standard in Irritation
Mobile Apps: Breaking Out of the Pocket
UI Stencil Kit for iPhone App Designers
Truetype, Font Variants and Antialiasing
Firefinder Adds Search to Firebug
Google's New CAPTCHA: The Only Way Is Up!
DRM: Cutting Off Your Prose to Spite Your Face
Google: Branding and showing no re-Morse
iPhone OS overtakes Symbian OS
HTML Email: What Mail Clients are People Using?
WebJam 8: Smells Like Geek Spirits (and Beer)
Adobe Fireworks CS4 beta released
Are You User Experienced?
PA.AM - Getting Ugly URLs into your Mobile Phone
Real-world Gloss Effects in Fireworks
Adobe Photoshop Express Launches
Making 'IE6-friendly' PNG8 Images
Apple rumored to move into kitchen appliances sector
PNG32 hacks and IE6. Is it worth it?
Live Web Video Content the Qik Way
Remove Color Casts Using Photoshop Lab Color
Browsers, Pixels and Rounding Errors
In the Lab: Doing strange things to CSS Backgrounds
Stretchy Images with HTML and CSS
Vector Magic: Stanford's AutoTracer Bullet
Firefox Bug: Status Bar Zaniness
Adobe CS3 and the Case of the Disappearing Thumbnails - The Sequel
And the Inaugural 'Electric Floor' Award goes to...
PNG8 - The Clear Winner
The Future of Imagery? Content Aware Image Resizing
Real 3D in Photoshop CS3 Extended
Are your icons working for you?
Have Microformats finally arrived?
JavaScript Sprite Animation Using jQuery
CSS: Using Percentages in Background-Image
Fireworks CS3: 5 Reasons You Might Upgrade
Win $800 for redesigning the London 2012 Olympic Logo
Photoshop CS3 New Features: #1 - Quick Selection Tool
The Art & Science of CSS Rounded Corners (and beyond)
Fireworks CS3 Features: Intelligent Scaling
Markup Musings #1: How should you mark up dialog?
sIFR 2007: The Roundup
A coffee break moment: Google Maps FlightSim
Web-based graphics application: Picnik
London Calling: Attention Project Managers!
PicFindr: Free stock photo and image search
Psst.... 'The Principles of Beautiful Web Design' now available here.
Quick 'n' Dirty Color Correction with LAB Color
Drawing Inspiration: Collaborative Whiteboard Tools -Part 1
Gone Phishing
jQuery Contest: Whip up a Button
Browsershots.org: Test nine browsers for free
BlueCast or BlueSnarfed?
Photoshop CS2 Tips, Trick and Hacks for the Web
Render 3D Worlds Using CSS and the DOM
And the Award for Most Superfluous Use Of Ajax in a Mainstream Website goes to....
The IE Word Wrap Doppelganger Bug
Spanky Corners 1.0 : Rounded Corners + Clean HTML + No JavaScript
The Great Alexa Spike of 2006
You've Come A Long Way, Baby... Not.
MozBackup - Backup tool for Firefox & Thunderbird profiles
Kevin Hulsey's Illustrator Master Classes
Personalized Media - The Unseen Video
Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search
Prototype Poster from Snook.ca
AdLinks: 'Out-of-Contextual' Advertising?
Standalone IE7 - The Fix
Information Architecture - Why the First Page Comes Last
FireBug - The King of Firefox Validators
CSS On/Images Off
Rip it up: Worn Type using CSS
Adobe CS2 and the Case of the Disappearing Thumbnails!
IETab - Gold!
Working up a Sweat with Dreamweaver 8
I/O Brush -- Sample your World
Branding with Lea
The Catfish - Part 1
Is ESPN returning to the nest?
ScreenGrab & Devboi for Firefox
Marking up your Designs with HTMLstamps
Getting a feel for type with Typetester
Quark Are Different... Kinda
The Future is SVG - So Very Good
HTML Email and Lotus Notes
If I Had a Dollar for Every 'border:1px dashed red'
Spin the Bottle with CMS Matrix
'DOM-foolery' with Images
The Web Developer's Keyboard
Usability improvements using the DOM
Fixing the 'onClick' in Dreamweaver
The Web Designer's Sketch Pad
Small Screen Testing in FireFox
Firefox - the secret is out
The End of CAPTCHA?
Veerle's Charts in Illustrator CS2
Tribute to a Friend
Acrobat Tricks
Eric's Universal Child Selector
Microsoft releases Acrylic beta
Vanishing Point in Photoshop CS2
Tracing in Illustrator CS2
Once more with Expression 3
Firefox Dev Widgets
CSS Formatter & Optimiser
Radical Interface Approaches
TILT! Tables sneak in the backdoor
Safari passes the Acid Test
Panoramas Made Easy
Adobe aquires Macromedia
Free Stock Imagery
Making a Flash vKitty
Bring out the GimpShop
Updated Web Page Analyzer
Mind Bending Flash - The Zoom Quilt
Small Screen Usability Experiments
Say Hi to Cambria
DOM Layout Effects
Hung, Drawn and Quoted
More Zen for your Eyeball
The Zen of the Eyeball
Simple Clearing of Floats
Designer's Wishlist: Touch Sensitive LCD Display
When is a list not a list?
Escher Web Sketch
Epicenter Design
Handling the HR Tag
Terra Alert
Flickr-powered Color Schemes
Access All Areas
Hail the WDT -- We are not worthy!
Logs, Damn Logs, and Browser Statistics
Customizing the Autoscrolling Icon
CSS Rollovers - Just Add Water
Shopping Carts and Madness
2005 - Hand me that grindstone!
Fotobuzz - Image... Flash Replacement?
Winter in the Google-verse
Web Design 2005: Have crystal ball will travel
Ah, like sands through the hourglass...

Follow SitePoint on...