No matter what type of business you run, whether it's gardening, computers, online shop or blog, you nearly always need to send some emails out to other people. Popular examples are e-commerce websites such as Amazon, and emails from new letters. It's always a good choice with these emails to create them so that they match your brand, company and website. This is where HTML emails can come in as you can use images and tables in a HTML email. After we have created a HTML email, I will show you how to send it using PHP.

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This PDF is a complete guide to CSS Pseudo-class and elements. Some pseudo-classes were created in CSS 2.1, and with the introduction of CSS3, new, more complex pseudo-classes have been created. This cheat sheet will show you all the pseudo-classes and the pseudo elements, explain what they do, and give an example or two on using that particular class.

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It's always important for your customers and visitors to be able to contact you with ease. One of the easiest ways for a customer to get in contact with you is by using a contact form. This is when the customer can fill out text boxes with their details as well as provide a message and these details will be emailed to the recipient (you.) In this post, I'm going to show you how to create a contact form using XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

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We've already covered some examples of using CSS3 in our first article where went over animations, gradients, border radius, text and box shadow. Though there are still more properties to cover, and in this article we're going to be taking a look at 4 more CSS3 properties including @font-face, transitions, transform and border-image.

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With all the modern browsers starting to support CSS3 (including Mozilla Firefox 4, Apple Safari 4, Internet Explorer 9), it's time to take a real look at CSS3 and see what it can do, and what it's capable of doing. CSS3 has a lot of new properties to use, including gradients, border images, transitions, animations, border radius, @font-face, shadows, and more.

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Since HTML5 has been in development, there has been a lot of speculation that the introduction of <canvas> mixed with JavaScript means flash will have no place on the internet. I've taken some time to have a look at what developers have created using a combination of the JavaScript and <canvas>, and it is starting to look rather impressive.

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It's not always easy trying to find free software and applications to help you with your web design and development. Maybe you keep on finding software or applications that you have to pay for. There are many software and applications that you can use for free, and 15 of some of the best free software and applications are listed here.

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If you're just starting out in web design, you may be rather overwhelmed with the prices with some of the products that professionals use such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dreamweaver which can cost up to $754-$1,000 individually or almost $3,000 for a suite. It is safe to say that not everybody will be able to afford this or willing to get a copy. There is a fairly large crowd of free alternatives to these programs to help you in your daily basic design jobs.

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