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Something new at Firewheel?
One of my favorite design shops: Firewheel Design is cooking up something new. Those guys are masters of hype. They are like the U2 of the Web design world :) I just hope this product isn’t “How to Disassemble an Atomic BOMB”. I’m sure it won’t be ;) Best wishes guys. Can’t wait to see.
Blueprintcss A CSS Framework
Any Web developer who codes CSS on a regular basis likely has conventions, official, or ad hoc, that they’ve created for themselves to save themselves time and effort. Standard style declarations for common layout or typography needs are found in many places on the Internet.
Mark pointed me to blueprintcss, a framework for css coding. It provides some structure, styles, and naming conventions that make common layouts very simple and fast to develop. The only thing I’m noticing about it, in my cursory digging through the code, is that its style declarations are not very “semantic” in nature. An argument could possibly be made here, but I still prefer styles like “sitemeta” to “column span-3″, a less descriptive naming convention.
All in all, looks very useful.
YSlow for Firebug
Yahoo developers have put out a really handy add-on for firebug called “YSlow”. Based on the Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Site, this little widget will help you determine what you can do to your Web site to increase it’s performance. It has interesting suggestions. Looks very useful. (hat tip: @lisamac)
Autoblog Redesign
This morning at about 1am, we launched the new Autoblog.com. This is my fifth Weblogs Inc design, and I think it is by far my best. The logo was done by Dennis Desilva. The HTML, CSS, and Design (except where mandated by CMS and vendors) is mine. Keep an eye out this summer. We have some other exciting redesigns and new designs in the hopper!
I want my MTV
MTV’s Web site is sweet. They just released a fast, clean, HTML+CSS site, a wonderful change from their Flash based behemoth, which really was a technical wonder, but really hard to use. I am totally digging the new version. Mad props to my favorite designer/dev, Dan Cederholm, for leading the team into the new millennium. Read Dan’s writeup here, and read MTV Labs’ writeup here.
Purevolume, then Virb, now MTV… hey, MySpace, you paying attention? Anyone? Anyone? Didn’t think so…
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