Freebie Tuesday 13th of December – Atlas, a Creative’s Portfolio (HTML)

Looking for a fast, simple, and neat portfolio site and just to plop this onto your server, insert your logo, and throw up your awesome work for everyone to see. It’s easy to look professional and to give some credibility to yourself. So go for it. Even the contact form has full functionality.

The whole kit and caboodle includes the full PSD and all the code/assets. The design is by yours truly, and the code was created by the wonderful Luke Spoor.

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8 Simplified Tools To Help With HTML5 Coding

HTML5 is an effective and increasingly used language for both developers and designers to use to structure and present content. Whether to make websites more functional and user-friendly, deliver video faster, or even build desktop level web applications. Here are 8 simplified tools for HTML5 coding:

1. Initializr

Initializr is an HTML5 templates generator to help you getting started with an HTML5 project. It is built on HTML5 Boilerplate, a powerful HTML5 template created by Paul Irish and Divya Manian. Initializr will generate for you a clean customizable template based on Boilerplate with just what you need to start.

Why You Should Validate Your HTML

Validation of your code is often overlook in the benefits that provides developers and designers. It’s possible to code HTML and have websites to initially work properly. But all coding languages have rules for properly syntax, grammar and vocabulary and browsers problems could arise in times when the browser receives new updates to keep with the online advances.

Those who don’t take their time to validate their HTML websites may find that their newly website may work well initially but problems will arise later to the design code being 100% right plus validating your code will make you a better coder in the later in your career. Today we will be going through the reason why you should always validate.

12 Tips & Tricks When Designing Emails

Nearly every one in the world has received an email in their lifetime and Email Direct Marking Campaigns ( or EDM’s for short) are increasingly becoming a more popular method of communication. Today post will focus on 12 tips and tricks that you need to be aware of before you start designing and coding an HTML email.

1. Scrap <div>’s use <table>’s instead.

Most web designers are used to design websites using div’s and really don’t worry about using tables because they are the devil but when you start to coding a HTML email you will need to use tables and even sometimes tables within tables to accomplish the desired design.