I started thinking about the coca-cola song back in the 70’s “i’d like to teach the world to sing” and decided to build a template using cokes familiar red/black/grey tones. The design is a variant of what I built for RVM Consulting Services. Just a couple of hours work so it may have a […]
I saw a site that had two fixed columns and a fluid 3rd column, so I decided to try my hand at creating one. This template has almost no design styling but is rather a structural template. You can easily add background images and other section CSS to make it more visually appealing. […]
I discovered an amazing book last night. Andy Clarke’s “Transcending CSS” is a look to the future for web developers and designers. I only had about 20 minutes to do a rough read through but plan to devour it this weekend. His focus is on design aesthetics and allowing the content to determine the […]
eSearing Creative, that would be me, saw fabulous growth in 2006.
Some of my 2004 and 2005 clients wanted redesigns of thier sites in 2006. Traqmate.com and Lamin-x.com both got major updates with the help of graphic designer Andre Surles. BlueHavanaCigars got a nice facelift and added online shopping as well as a blog. Faxsolutions.us […]
Introducing HauteAdornment.com.
This site was designed around the company’s oval logo and the owners desire to showcase their jewelry. This site uses the image swaps and text swaps outlined in my prior article “advanced gallery”. Overall I am pleased with the final site but it took a while to get there. The coding is […]
I recently created a site with multiple links to swap images and text. Not only did the link have to change the image but it had to pass variables to other links so they could change the Large image and text. This got fairly complicated. So I thought I would put it out here […]
Announcing the launch of timenchime.com. Time-n-chime is a clock sales and repair shop in Shrieveport, LA. The site features a simple CSS layout with product images on the home page. The ecommerce store was updated to OSCommerce and was given a new skin using the simple template system (STS).
I moved the hosting from a […]
All of us who still prefer a basic text editor for our coding of webpages are always looking for something to minimize the repetitive tasks such as page structure. Normally we grab stuff from our existing libraries and begin stripping and rearanging and tearing apart the CSS.
But now there is a quick way to […]
Last night I was struggling with a menu and hover effects. After reading all the interesting tutorials about CSS Menus by various experts who all build their menus as list items.
I initially built the menu as an unordered list with li:hover effects. All worked well in Firefox but the li:hover is not supported in […]
Since many of my clients sell physical products I have learned to install and modify the OSCommerce ecommerce application on several websites. Out of the box, this is a very robust online storefront, complete with Administrators panels, a complete database for managing; Products, Product Categories, Customers, Shipping, Taxes, Communications, and other features which help […]