There is no doubt that web design can be art, just like other forms of design. But many web professionals don’t fit the “artist” stereotype. Instead, we tend to think of ourselves as geeks. Visual artists, for example, think in terms of brush or pen strokes. The less artistic web designer, however, thinks in terms [...]

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a { cursor: pointer } In CSS, you can use the above code to turn the user’s mouse cursor into a hand when certain elements are hovered. Like this. This “hand” cursor is known in CSS as “pointer” (because it’s a hand pointing, duh ). We’re all used to getting the “pointer” cursor when hovering [...]

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This is a part of the alphabet used by Egyptians around the year 196 AC, in which the Rosetta stone was written. This stone allowed egyptologist Champollion to decipher the hieroglyphs for the first time (because the writings on the stone were also translated into Greek and demotic). These hieroglyphs, however, are only phonetic approximations [...]

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