Paul Grunt

Exploring Footers by Bobby Van Der Sluis, is a must read if you’re trying to position footers using web standards.

This article explores the ways you can position footers using web standards, although the same techniques may be used to vertically position other elements. Many designs contain a footer that is positioned directly under the content area, unless the content and the footer together don’t fill the window entirely. In this case, the footer will be positioned at the bottom of the browser window.

A CSS sticky footer that just works

We’ve all tried to use a sticky footer one time or another, but they never seem to come out right, do they? Well, the days of a hard to understand CSS-based sticky footer are thankfully over. In just a few simple CSS classes with minimal extra HTML markup, I’ve fashioned a sticky footer that even beginners can get a handle on. It’s been tested in IE 5 and up, Firefox, Safari and Opera. – Ryan Fait

Read more here: A CSS Sticky Footer.

Check it out! Color Scheme Designer 3.

Facybox using jQuery. So Cool! Fancybox | Fancy lightbox alternative.

If you’re like most designers and developers you need a centralized place to manage all your clients, projects, team, etc. A big problem is that most of the top web based project management tools cost too much or require you to upgrade outside your opperating budget for support of basic functionality like Time Tracking. I think these forced upgrades are shameless and I encourage you to investigate some of the solutions listed in this article to save your business some money.  Top 10 Open Source Web-Based Project Management Software .

CSSBUILT is a great showcase of well designed & standards based css websites from around the world. Check it out.

Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics « Smashing Magazine.

Now is an exciting time to be creating CSS layouts. After years of what felt like the same old techniques for the same old browsers, we’re finally seeing browsers implement CSS 3, HTML 5 and other technologies that give us cool new tools and tricks for our designs.

If you’re struggling to staty in the black every month as a designer then maybe this article can help you out! 10 Ways A Designer Can Make some Extra Money | Creativeoverflow.

55 Astonishing Online Generators for Web Designers | DominickGatto.com.

I have frequently found myself getting stuck in a project and losing all motivation due to repetitve tasks such as creating a looping background or styling a basic CSS menu that actually works. These mini-projects seem simple, but they always tend to go wrong. Thankfully there were a lot of designers who felt all of our pain, so they all posted some useful tools for us to exploit.