Alex has been doing cruel and unusual things to CSS since 2001. He is the lead front-end design and dev for SitePoint and one-time SitePoint's Design and UX editor with over 150+ newsletter written. Co-author of The Principles of Beautiful Web Design. Now Alex is involved in the planning, development, production, and marketing of a huge range of printed and online products and references. He has designed over 60+ of SitePoint's book covers.
Alex's articles
Dreamweaver's ability to work directly with PSDs is a new approach to bridging the gap between layouts and code. Alex takes it for a test-drive.
Crafting images that are as well-adapted to each device as our code is may be our next big challenge. It's a area of focus for Photoshop CC 2014 release.
Sometimes design genius isn't what you add -- it's what you take away. Henry Beck's London Underground Map tells us a lot about good information design.
From Monaco to New York to Chicago, type has often been linked to cities. Apple's newest typeface San Francisco, takes a big city into small places.
What if you could export all your image assets -- and CSS -- from any PSD with nothing more than a web browser? And it was 100% free. Meet Adobe Extract.
Read The Secret to Underlined Links That Don't Sting Your Eyes? and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
'Less is more' is a principle often applied to pure design problems, but you can even see it at work in the design of late 1700's maps.
Stenography is 'old tech' that still makes sense today. Plover is an open source project designed to deliver 240 wpm typing to authors, bloggers and coders.
Read Smartwatch UI Design: A Battle of Circles and Squares and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
It's time to judge the best solution entered for our first challenge. We got some clever ideas using very differing technologies. Which one worked best?
Think you're pretty handy with CSS? Welcome to the Challenge #1: Recreate this GIF in code -- most elegant solution wins.
Fontface Ninja puts typographical information on web fonts, size and line-height at your 'cursor-tip'. Just punch the ninja, point and all is revealed.
Gabrielle's design won the Star Wars Poster competition and we've announced the 5 lucky winners of our Mighty Deals swag.
Two of our favorite authors have taken up the challenge to redesign the Star Wars movie poster -- but in a completely different genre. See the results!
Helvetica was the darling of the design world for 50 years but the tide has been turning. Ironically Apple have waited till now to make it the star of OS X.
Often the generated SVG files we get from graphics apps are not well-suited for the web. Alex gives you the perfect intro to working with SVG.
WebCode is a Vector Graphics Editor designed from the ground up to make great SVGs. I've been using it a lot recently and thought I'd give you my views.
Bauhaus is not only one of the most important design movements in history, but an especially relevant style for Web Designers. Alex and Simone tell you why.
Animator and CSS sorcerer Rachel Nabors spent some time with us talking about the future of animation on the web before her FOWD workshop in April.
The Wright brothers focussed on the most basic functionality for their MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and the rest is aviation history.
SitePoint author Jodie Moule describes the process of user research and UX design for her iOS app, Cook.
Following the release of Apple's new Darth Vader-esque web server, we wondered: If web languages / technologies were Star Wars characters, who would they be?
Time to do something silly with CSS — construct a playable game -- Pong. No JavaScript or Flash. Just HTML, CSS3 and a healthy dollop of nutty professor.
SitePoint designer Alex Walker uses CSS magic to bring life to the Christmas Sale timeline.
Read Using CSS Animation to tell the SitePoint Christmas Story and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Web Directions South 2012 has been and gone. After two weeks of rumination, here are the talks that I'm still thinking about.
Read How the Brady Bunch Can Help your CSS and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Work through two simple CSS3 animation examples in the ideal screencast for those starting out with CSS3.
Read SitePoint's New Logo — and the Story Behind It and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read Taking CSS1k to the Garden of CSS-3den and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.