Quick Tips Of The Week – December 23rd 2009
Quick tips of the week for designers is round again, I will be posting five great tips that I discover during the week and share them with you! This week learn about some great recourses, css opacity change, a photoshop keystroke that will save you tons of time and find out what beautiful HTML looks like!
#1
Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr over at digwp.com have finally released the much anticipated “Digging into WordPress” book! I personally purchased it when it came out, I haven’t fully read it yet, however I have flicked through all the chapters and let me tell you; this is 400 pages worth investing in. It’s great for beginners and even experienced Wordpess users! I highly recommend picking yourself up a copy for only $27, at the moment it is only available in PDF format however they say a print format is forthcoming. You also receive a lifetime subscription and any updates to the addition will become available to you.
Get yourself a copy today!
#2
One super cool tip you can use with CSS3 is editing the opacity of images, text etc. I’ve been using it to subtly change opacities of images and their hover states, and it is as simple as it sounds. See example.
The Code
#image { opacity: 0.8;}
#image:hover { opacity: 1.0; }
View Demo
#3
Have you ever wanted to switch to a tool that is in sub-menu of the “shortcut” without clicking and holding the icon? Well if you simply hold SHIFT and then the “SHORTCUT KEY” of the tool it will scroll through all tools that are in the category, thus selected your desired tool.
#4
If you’ve ever wondered what beautiful html looks like, checkout this great article from css-tricks to find out!
#5
Go ahead and sign up for this fantastic FREE ultimate designers resource pack, from tutorial9.
Sorry for the lack of posts, I have been working on my new site, TheDesignersYard.com, which I will post screen shots and features very shortly!
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