Sickdesigner

My name is Radu Chelariu, I'm a web designer and here you can get to know me better.

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Masonry CSS or Getting awesome with CSS3

Gotta tell you folks: this one’s been bugging me for a week now. I’m sure everyone is familiar with David DeSandro‘s awesome jQuery plugin, Masonry. Well, what this is is two things. First, it’s an homage to David himself and

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

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. Web design is grow

HTML5 Starter Pack – a sick freebie

Normally, 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. The Starter Pack, as I

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.

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.

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?