http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb Everything you need to know to make a website! Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:45:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Antonio Lupetti's WP Cheat Sheet guide Antonio Lupetti has designed and created a Wordpress Visual cheatsheet that nicely display and defines some of the most commonly used code references in WordPress.org. He writes: WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet is the new document, of the Visual Cheat Sheet family, that ... http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/11/02/wordpress-visual-cheatsheet/ Kevin M. Keating from Frivolous Motion (aka Frivmo) has a great list of 50 Critical Questions you need to ask yourself about your website. These questions are essential in order to work out whether or not your site is not only accessible but usable and by asking yourself and your ... http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/10/27/381/ Russ Weakley from Max Design has written a very good article/tutorial that goes through the in's and out's of design and building a liquid layout using CSS. For anyone who is unfamiliar with the term a liquid layout is one that can be re-sized and adjusted to suit any window ... http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/10/27/css-liquid-layouts/ Everyone wants to learn how to develop functional drop-down menu's that have style as well as functionality. So here is a list of some really good tutorials on how to create some dynamic and functional CSS and JQuery drop-down menu's. “Outside the Box” Navigation with jQuery Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery ... http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/10/21/css-and-jquery-menu-tutorials/ Net-Tuts+ offers a really good tutorial on how to create a dynamic drop down menu using JQuery and CSS. Here is a little blurb about the tutorial: We will use jQuery to create a different multi-layered horizontal navigation system that is still intuitive enough for anyone to use for the first ... http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/10/21/interesting-navigation-menu-with-jquery/ Want to validate your form but don’t know any Javascript coding? Don’t worry, Dreamweaver can help you with this. Dreamweaver comes with a form validation Behavior allows you to validate your form without any Javascript knowledge. N-design offers a quick tutorial on how to do this: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/dreamweaver/form-validation/ http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/10/21/validating-your-web-forms/ Martin Ludwig from Wepage Design for Designers has posted an article on the website WPDFD called "Eight Rules for Effective Web Forms", which goes through how to design, create and implement forms on your website using Coffee Cup's web form builder. It is a very good article, with ... http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/10/21/build-effective-web-forms/ VirtualHosting.com have written an article providing a 57 point checklist for you to work out the usability of your website before you screen it to an audience. Test your Website: A 57-Point Checklist for Maximum Usability. http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/10/21/test-your-website-a-57-point-checklist-for-maximum-usability/ Found a collection of some really great tools by W3Avenue you are into learning and developing with CSS. These tools will help you develop and expand your CSS knowledge in a range of different areas. Click below to read more... Layouts CSS Layout Generator This generator will create a fluid or fixed width ... http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/10/21/useful-css-tools-and-resources/ Kevin M. Keating wrote an article in 2007 which was basically a collection of 50 questions that every web-designer and developer needs to ask themselves whenever they are working on websites or are about to publish their websites to the internet. This is a rather extensive list but covers alot ... http://www.creativecultural.com/designfortheweb/2009/10/21/website-questions-what-you-need-to-know/