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Inverted Tabs

Also handy for CSS tabs:

inverted tabs

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Posted June 30th, 2004 in External Link by Matt

CSS Sliding Doors meet Image Sprites

Muy muy useful.

Sliding Doors Meets Image Sprites

I’m not gonne really explain this one as I just am posting it here so I won’t forget about it. But if you make Web sites, and like/want the whole tabbed navigation thing, this is pretty cool.

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Posted June 27th, 2004 in Everything Else by Matt

New Regular Read

I have added Mike Davidson to my list of regular reads. Why? Because he is a successful designer who has done some pretty major things to some pretty major Web sites. He has interesting, and slightly unique insights into the whole Web standards thing, and his site looks just like a redesign I was doing for this site. (his front page looks like an idea I’ve had for my front page ever since the beginning of this site, but I never quite got it off the ground, screenshots coming just to prove I’m not a whiner).

Anyway, as soon as my new design launches (in early 2007) I will be labeled a copy cat. Oh well.

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Posted June 17th, 2004 in External Link by Matt

Two great tastes…

Now here’s a handy thing… I have been staring at the daunting task of customizing Gallery’s templates to look like various blog sites I have set up (Lone Strangers, The Borseths, and matt and nancy dot org).

This is a little tutorial on how to do that fairly easily.

Integrating Gallery into Movabletype

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Posted June 14th, 2004 in External Link by Matt

Lunch with Eric Meyer

I had a strange day.

I attended the University of Iowa Web Camp in Iowa City today. I went because Eric Meyer was giving the keynote: an updated version of The Standards Payoff (in brief: why you should design sites with Web Standards). I mean, Eric Meyer is THE CSS GURU. CSS is something I’ve devoted a large part of my last year learning about/thinking about/researching/etc. It’s a bit like going to see one of your favorite bands in concert (in an odd sort of way).

Lunch time came around and I got the wild hair to see if I could tag along to wherever he was going and join him and pick his brain for awhile. He very graciously (actually sorta awkwardly, as I would have done had some really random stranger come up and invited me to lunch) accepted and we went to Pancheros. One of the other keynotes (Daniel Frommelt, Webmaster at U of Wisconsin, Plattville, and that guy who retooled slashdot with Web standards on A List Apart. Came along as well (as he and Eric had already arranged to eat lunch together, I really hope I wasn’t intruding, they told me I wasn’t ;)). Daniel is a great speaker actually, and quite knowledgable about the whole accessibility thing. So as you can imagine, it wasn’t hard to find stuff to talk about. A CSS guru, and an accessibility guru…

Good times, good conversations about lots of little random things. One interesting point of conversation was the advent of the “Web guru popstar”. For example, the fact that I was really excited to be meeting, and eating lunch with Eric Meyer, and how several younger Web developers had him autograph their copy of Cascading style sheets, the definitive guide (among others). And how I thought to bring my copy of that book to have him autograph, but then left it behind, thinking I wouldn’t probably get so much as the chance to talk to him. Silly me…

Thanks Eric, for humoring me, and for letting a young startstruck Web Developer intrude on your time a bit :)

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Posted June 7th, 2004 in Web Design by Matt

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