How do we love Google Doodles? Let us count the ways. But when we noticed today's celebration of the great german physicist Heinrich Hertz, we all did a double take. Find out why.Read More
Alex Walker
Alex manages design and front end development for SitePoint.com and writes for Design Festival's monthly design newsletter.
Alex Walker
So, you’ve come up with a HTML email design you’re happy with. Woo! Before you start mailing it out, you’re going to need to test it. There are so many email web apps and desktop clients out... Read More
Before we get started, let’s get one thing straight: I ♥ CSS3. I understand that we’ve never had it so good. In fact, I have no doubt that time-travellers visiting from 2004 would be sick with... Read More
It’s been a month of inspired ideas and clever execution but the time has come to announce the official winner of Design Festival’s Cicada Project iPad 2 Give-away. We’ve almost hit fifty... Read More
For centuries painters have created deep, complex tone by building up semi-transparent layers of color. Alex shows you how you can do something similar with inset box-shadows to make interesting CSS3... Read More
Forget Flash cookies. Developer Samy Kamkar has developed a new JavaScript API called Evercookie that uses ten -- yep, count 'em -- ten different methods for virtual-tattooing a cookie into your... Read More
Designers love to tell why they hate Comic Sans, but what about the less obvious question: Why is it so inconceivably popular with the rest of the world?Read More
CSS Variables are all the rage, but can you get started without committing to a server technology? If you're looking for an easy way to dip your toe into the water, JavaScript might be the answer.Read More
Photoshop's new Puppet Warp is a completely different kind of image manipulation tool -- beyond the traditional clone, scale, rotate, shear, and distort tools that we're all accustomed to. Could it... Read More
In the final article in our Expression Web series, Alex shows us the ins and outs of the SuperPreview feature, which lets you preview your site across many browser rendering engines right in the... Read More
Last week, a small SitePoint contingent attended REMIX Australia where our own Matty Magain presented a very well-received talk on anonymous visitor data entitled ‘What We Know About You’.... Read More
Ask most people and they'll tell you HTML email is mostly used for spam, product shills and newsletters. But take a closer look at your inbox and you may well be surprised.Read More
While it may be the results page that pays the bills at Google, I think the front page is still their heart and soul. Over more than ten years we've seen Google Doodles paying tribute to everything... Read More
Today, Google announced the Google Font API and Google Font Directory at their IO Developer Conference. Using a single line of code you'll now be able to legally link and use a range of fonts without... Read More
