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Moses the camel - created by J. Castillo for the computer animation festival at FAU Moses the Camel - 3D composite created for the FAU Animation Festival, Florida 2006

It all started with the level element

After many years teaching web design I came to the realization that most professional designers don’t know how to properly nest tags. Now, you would probably ask, why is this important? the answer is CSS and the Doctype.
It all started with block level and inline level elements. Unfortunately, this should be the first HTML class [...]

CSS Conditional Comments

A common practice among designers, specially when it comes to cross-browser sites, is the use of Conditional Comments (Statements).
Conditional Statements give you the control you need to select and load an given stylesheet depending merely on the browser the user is using or an specific version of it.
Although some sites say that Conditional Statements are [...]

Creating Tabs with Axure RP 5

Axure RP is one of the best tools there is for quick prototyping. With Axure you can easily wireframe all your concept pages and with a click of a button allow the application to generate a requirements document for you, how sweet is that?!
Unfortunately, one key component for any page nowadays is the use of [...]