The Design Gnome

The only web publication run by a garden ornament. Yeah.

The Design Gnome Week in Review #2

Now what, may you ask, is “The Design Gnome Week in Review?” Well, here at The Design Gnome, we spend a good amount of time on the internet, as you may imagine given that this is, after all, a web design blog. Every so often we come across articles or tutorials that are just soo [...]

The Importance of HTML Comments

Remember how when you were a kid, your parents used to tell you to clean your room? Well, chances are you know longer have an adult telling you to clean your room, so maybe you sometimes forget to. Imagine that your HTML code is your room. Open tags, close tags, attributes, id’s, and classes strewn [...]

The Design Gnome Week in Review #1

Now what, may you ask, is “The Design Gnome Week in Review?” Well, here at The Design Gnome, we spend a good amount of time on the internet, as you may imagine given that this is, after all, a web design blog. Every so often we come across articles or tutorials that are just soo [...]

25 Super-Useful CSS Code Snippets for Beginners

When you are first starting out with Cascading Style Sheets, it can be daunting to face the seemingly infinite properties that the language supplies, much less the values that you can input for those properties. In those troubling times it can be helpful to have a library of common bits of code, called snippets. I’m [...]

How to Build a Lightsaber (with CSS)

Lately there’s been a huge number of CSS3 experiments on the web. And while they’re all doubtlessly cool, very few go through and explain how it was done in tutorial form. Most simply give a list of properties used or just show their code, without explaining the why of their source. In this tutorial, I’m [...]

Form vs. Structure

Two very important elements in not only web design, but many forms of design and even architecture, are Form and Structure. However, too often these are confused and understood to be the same thing. In this article, I hope to change that, which, in turn, will change the way you think about design.

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