Author Archives for leon

Japanese drawing made from HTML


Check out this Japanese drawing using HTML tables and background colour. This guy did an awesome drawing, some amazing work, honestly who has the time..?

Handy Video - Introduction to CSS editing using Firebug


For anyone who’s not familiar with the Firefox add-on - you really should be, it’s a really cool hands-on way to edit or peruse code while you browse, read more, or get firebug here *snipped from the website
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you […]

Freebies - Buttons, Icons and Templates


Some handy links and resources found in this article. * source
Visual design elements can considerably improve the readability of the page. Using them, you can make it easier for your users to scan the presented content and find the information they’re actually looking for. Icons can draw reader’s attention to the key aspects of […]

Fav Icon Generator at Dynamic Drive, the quick and easy way


Save time and worry by checking out this FREE and simple Fav Icon Generator over at Dynamic Drive.  Use their online tool to simply create a favicon (favorites icon) for your website. A favicon is a small, 16×16 image that is displayed inside the browser’s location bar and bookmark menu when your site is selected. […]

A CSS Sticky Footer that works


Here is something that might come in really handy for web designers - CSS for a working sticky footer. Back in the day it was easy enough to set a table height to 100%, placing the footer on the base of the page and have it constantly stick, but it’s often been difficult in […]

CSS Templates, Where To Start


The more blogs I read, the more I feel like the newcomers to web design are left behind not knowing where to begin, getting lost in jargin and lines of code which mean very little.
For the inexperienced web designer who’s looking at getting into Standards Compliant Web Design it can’t hurt to begin with a […]

Recent Happenings


Initially, despite entering the CSS Reboot with promising intentions I’m yet to complete the content implementation for the new website, even though I’ve had the the design finished for months now.
Lately things have been fairly chaotic on the work front. Aside from full time work. I’ve been getting caught up in various projects […]

Preparing for CSS Reboot


I’ve committed Inspired Web to CSS Reboot. It was a spur of the moment decision but I’m hoping the commitment will motivate me to get my arse into gear and finally bring the site upto scratch. I’ve never really gotten round to finishing V2.0, mainly because I’ve never really had the incentive as […]

Finally, a great FREE Flash Image Gallery


In search for the ideal flash image gallery that ties in with CSS/Web 2.0 design it’s tough, and one that’s totally FREE! Today i found this one SimpleViewer.
To see an example of what this looks like click here
To download SimpleViewer, click here
In my opinion this is a really handy find!  The gallery looks sleek, clean, […]

Just updated Leonperkin.com


As soon as it is, I felt the urge (while the popularity is there) to update my portfolio site, I believe the new look better reflects my work and personality.  Check it out www.leonperkin.com
There’s some quite a bit of work to do, eg - thumbnail galleries and better formating on the sub pages - but […]