When to use <pre> and <code>, and tips for doing so.

Digitally recreating light is a pretty challenging task, and this week we’re going to look at websites that manage to use this effect brilliantly.

Backgrounds are so called for a reason. They’re meant to support and complement instead of attract and distract. This week’s featured sites, however, provide a whole other level of interactivity and usefulness to backgrounds. You decide if they’re a good idea or not. Either way, they’re interesting concepts that can only be executed on the Web, so, enjoy!

Don’t laugh! Don’t think it’s anything morbid, either! Let’s see how this week’s websites have made use of people’s heads as part of their designs.

Make your tooltips more interesting with javascript or CSS.

Let’s have websites with boxed-in content this week. How were these designed to produce such neatly-arranged yet still visually interesting content?

The W3C has worked hard to remove presentational elements from HTML. Unfortunately, old habits don’t die easily. This has resulted in some standard generic CSS classes that are contradictory to the intention of HTML and CSS. If you are using classes like .left, .right, and .clear you are guilty as charged.

Should your logo be in a h1 code block, or should you use it for post titles, on your blog? What’s the correct way to use all those headers anyway. Let’s try and find out!

Elegant, exquisite, and extreme details on these sites that are sure to please. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!

Here’s a larger-than-usual Friday Focus for this week, featuring simple yet beautiful designs that just work. Four site types (blog, portfolio, static, e-commerce) that do a standout job of making an impression.

Have you ever thought of adding multiple languages to your website or have done so using methods such as creating separate directories for a completely new website with only that one language? It is easily possible through PHP.