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Sickdesigner.com is my own little web retreat. It's a place I use to share what I deem to be valuable content with my fellow designers, pursue web or graphic experiments, connect with like-minded people, discuss various design related issues, occasionally vent frustrations in regards to the profession of design and sometimes even land a freelance job or two.

My name is Radu Chelariu. And I'm known as Sickdesigner.

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29 June

Understanding the CSS display property

One of the most powerful & useful properties in all CSS is, without a doubt, the display property. And yet, it is also one of the least well known, especially by those just starting out with CSS. In this post I’ll try to shed some light on this little gem.

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23 June

The Solar Method (of building websites)

In the past years, web design as a profession has grown immensely from a wee toddler to a field well into its adolescence. We now have standards and recommendations, best practices and various ways of testing the rigor of our work.

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31 May

HTML5 Starter Pack – a sick freebie

HTML5 Starter Pack - More than a templateNormally, I’m a big adept of not using templates for presets for pretty much anything I do. But, I must admit, there are tasks that are so trivial, so mundane and so bleedin’ boring that just scream for a template.

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15 April

The definitive guide to formatting CSS

As web designers, we like certain things done a certain way and the way we write our CSS is probably at the top of that list. So today I’ll try to show you a few ways to write better CSS, not just for yourself, but also for others.

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12 April

Pure CSS Vignette

Our latest posts have mostly been about design, so today we’re going full on code monkey with a cool CSS3 technique: Vignettes! The technique involves a few divs, a bit of simple CSS, and a whole lot of fun. So click the pic and read on.

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28 February

Taking semantic tags one step further

Lately it seems that the interwebs have been going all out nuts with HTML5 and CSS3. Everybody’s a pioneer and everybody’s declaring NOW is the time to start using them. But has anyone actually done more than just dip in?

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Friends of the sickness

The fact that this website is still alive is largely thanks to the amazing efforts of the design community, to which I owe deep & heartfelt thanks. However, among all the great people out there, a few have shown increased & consistent support for the sickness. This is their corner. Thanks, everyone!
  1. Bill Chambers

    Bill runs his own design agency based in Citrus Heights, California. A great father & friend, guitar afficionado & rock god.

  2. Alex Charchar

    A great Australian designer. He's passionate about typography & runs Retinart.net, a blog which you absolutely must read.

  1. David Cristian

    A freelance graphic/web design also based in Cluj-Napoca. Big Twitter guy & drummer. \m/

  2. Vitaly Friedman

    Founder of the legendary Smashing Magazine, Vitaly is a great guy with a huge heart.

  1. Adit Gupta

    A soon to be doctor of Astrophysics, math geek, designer & programmer. You may call him Dr. Gupta.

  2. Rich Hemsley

    Designer, Community Manager at Designmoo, funny man and musician. This guy does a lot of things. And he does them right.

  1. Anthony Hortin

    Anthony makes things pretty. Or so he says. He also makes things work. A proper good designer/developer.

  2. Polly Ivanova

    Polly is a rockin' Bulgarian web designer with a heart of gold and a backpack always ready for a hike.

  1. Jad Limcaco

    Jad is the man behind the famous Design Informer. A great guy and a great blogger from San Francisco.

  2. Janko Jovanovic

    Better known as Janko at warp speed, he's a world renowed web designer with super solid UX skills.

  1. Nikola Lazarevic

    Nikola is a Serbian web designer, an avid twitterer & he posts great articles on his blog, WebExpedition18.

  2. Steph Nash

    A true Aussie girl, Steph is a talented student with a bright future in web development.

  1. Brian Purkiss

    This mild mannered Texas based designer also runs a small web agency called Bold Perspective.

  2. Shawn Ramsey

    Shawn is another Texas based web designer who also runs BlueFAQs, an inspiration & resource blog for developers & designers.

  1. Becs Rivett

    With a passion for both cooking & code, this UK based designer will win you over with great humor & pics of yummy cupcakes.

  2. Milos Sutanovac

    Milos is a young Serbian web designer living & studying in Germany. A talented designer & future JS codemaster.

  1. Richie Thimmaiah

    Richie is a super funny, super talented designer based in Bangalore. He also posts awesome stuff on his blog, Richworks.

  2. Matt Ward

    Matt is a Canadian English lit major with a passion for design & masive blogging skills.

  1. James White

    World renowed designer, hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Aka Signalnoise. A true god among men.