Bird illustration by Vibeke Hoie

I’ve been working on a couple of projects before with this designer, Vibeke Høie, and with this latest one she’s launched a site on her own where you can order a lot of her cute illustration prints, with customized text. Go and check it out at Vibekehoie.no!

I’ll admit it. I dislike flexible width designs. I like the fact that everything is scaled how it was intended when it was designed in fixed width designs. But sometimes you need to have a flexible width, and credit where credit is due, this guy has made some great examples of how to do it without hacks, trickery, javascript or anything else that will slow down your page.

Check out the link for flexible width layouts, for 2 column, 3 column, pixel-based, em-based, percentage-based, everything you need.

Thought I’d spread some love. Cheat sheets are an amazing tool for us forgetful people. I code all my webstuff in Dreamweaver codeview, so I get codehints for HTML and CSS, but for javascript, jquery and other things it’s so easy to forget stuff and constantly having to look up exact names and possible attributes. That’s why cheat sheets are great, print a simple A4 paper that contains all attributes, names, functions and so on. Hang it on the wall and get everything right in the first attempt.

Instead of posting my own favourites I’ll just guide you to my favourite collections of cheat sheets. These cover HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, AJAX and more. What more do you need, read on and check them out.

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Over the last years I’ve been making a lot of XTHML/CSS site implementations. Every design is different, but I’ve learned that over time I have a good starting point for the css styles and html. This goes especially for designs with a content box with shadows, and a body background, with the content box positioned in the center of the page. Take a look in my portfolio, many of the designs are like that.

So I want to share this “pleasant” start, with some explanations.

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WakeReactor is a fansite for the upcoming Remedy game, Alan Wake. Remedy is a finnish game developer that made Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The fall of Max Payne. Alan Wake will be a Twin Peaks style thriller. This site was also made with my friend Matt’s CMS, and a redesign is coming.

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This is a fansite for the games Max Payne and Max Payne 2, and thus also for the movie that came out in 2008. I’ve run this page since 1999 in some shape. Currently it’s running with a CMS made by a good friend from England, Matt. I am currently redesigning it, and it’s tied closely to another of my pages, WakeReactor.

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Genialt is the name of my host. It started out as a project of a classmate of mine back in the schooldays, turned into a proper company, and nowadays it’s run by his brother. They needed a fresher page and look. So I made a logo, some businesscards and the website for them. They’ve hosted my pages for years, and I really recommend their services if you need a domain or webhotel.

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