Tutorials & Thoughts

about design, web development, typography, printing, entrepreneurship...

This site

is a collection of tuto­rials related to the courses I teach at North­eastern, as well as a place to exper­iment with markup and Word­Press. As such, it might break and will not look great in every browser.

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If you’re looking for my work or to hire me and a great team of creative profes­sionals, you should check out my business, Hifinit.

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Basics of CSS: the box model

Tutorial to follow. For now: What you need to know from the lecture: Draw “invisible boxes” around your designs so you can begin to visu­alize how you’ll structure your code Make div elements in your HTML document for every box that you drew on your designs. (Be cognizant of where your opening and closing tags are if you …
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Fundamentals of HTML Syntax

The purpose of this article is under­standing the funda­mental syntax of HTML. We’ll explore HTML elements, names, attributes and their values so you can under­stand the basics of HTML when you look at it.

What exactly is a website? An HTML and CSS overview

If you’re just getting into the world of web design, there are a few funda­mental concepts that you’ll really need to under­stand before you even move into writing your first line of code. Learn more in this post.