Flex Style Explorer

An important part of developing for Flex is skinning or styling the components. Flex has a great set of components with a default appearance. If you want to customize the components to style them without loosing time use Flex Style Explorer. Flex Style Explorer has a very nice visual dashboard which allows you to edit colors, padding, corner radius, fonts, shadows, alpha, background, and more. Once you edit a component it creates the CSS for you and you can export the CSS. This is great for any designer or developer. You do not need Flex to use Flex Style Explorer. You can use Flex Style Explorer in Fireworks CS3 or on the web. This article will cover new features, the advantages, the disadvantages, and exploring components in Flex Style Explorer.

Collage & Color in Web Design

What is a collage? A collage is a form of art that uses paper, ribbon, newspaper, photographs, art work, and hand-made materials. How does collaging and color influence web design?

CSS Fixed / Liquid Layout Trick

When creating an HTML page there are various layouts like fixed, liquid, hybrid, or elastic. Each page has it’s pros and cons. Recently, we built a fixed layout that needed to be changed to a liquid layout. This would require rebuilding the entire site. We compromised to make a Fixed/Liquid Layout.

Pros: 
1.Maintains the design aesthetics.
2.The text remains readable and fixed.
3.The layout will appear identical in all browsers.
4.Easy to implement.

Cons:
1.A reader with a mobile phone will have to scroll laterally.
2.If the user increases the text size the text may render incorrectly.