Top-10 Websites to Go To for Web Design Inspiration

   Posted: February 5th, 2010    By: Devin Walker   

As web designers, we often seek inspiration from what others have done before us.  Not to leech too much off their design, but to inspire our work and get us started on the right path.  Here I will share with you my top go to websites for beautiful website listings with great showcases and more.

Websites to Inpire Your Web Design
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Top-10 DMOZ Competitors (Open Directory Project)

   Posted: December 11th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

DMOZ Competition

Are you still waiting around to get listed on DMOZ? It takes forever. Maybe it’s worth taking a look at the closest DMOZ competitors. The following is an analysis of the closest competitors to the Open Direcoty Project. Thanks for checking out my Top-10 DMOZ Competitors list! Please leave a comment or suggestions.

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CSS Vertical Centering Text, Images and other Elements

   Posted: December 10th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

CSS IconCascading style sheets make is very easy to center objects vertically. This may be an image or some text that you wish to align properly for whatever reason. For this tutorial we will demonstrate how to vertically align some text then an image using an easy and W3C compliant method. Then I will show you how to place text or images in the absolute middle or center.
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WordPress Fix: Attribute “role” is not a valid attribute

   Posted: December 4th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

WordPress IconI like to design websites that are W3C Compliant.  Your WordPress theme may require some tweaking to be valid.  One error I kept receiving was: Attribute “role” is not a valid attribute. Did you mean “frameborder” or “scrolling”?  I will show you how to correct this error. 
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JavaScript Email Address Validation

   Posted: December 4th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

Email VerifyJavaScript makes it easy to validate form fields such as the commonly used email address field.  For web designers trying to validate the email field, this simple script provided by Smart Webby works great.  I thought I’d pass this along, it can be used to easily validate the email field of your contact, comment, etc. forms.  Please let me know what you think or if you’re having trouble.
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