Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
1. Do it in the Spring 2. Buy the expensive tools for the job, not the cheap ones. They’ll break and/or not function properly, causing you to renounce your faith. 3. Hand brushing is faster than using a cheap-o pump sprayer, but get a push broom to do it with rather than a 4″ hand […]
Ryan Block on keyword popover ads. Amen brother, they will have to fire me to get this code into Engadget.
I had the good fortune to be at An Event Apart – Chicago, and I used this as a place to take notes for my own personal use. Maybe you’ll find it interesting too. I suck at live-blogging, but that’s why I design blogs, rather than write them ;) Enjoy. Highlights so far: – Lunch […]
I saw CSS Sculptor last night on a tweet from Molly. Zeldman’s post made me take a second look. This could be really useful in quickly generating CSS layouts efficiently, though my pride is preventing me from wanting to purchase a wizard to do this. How quickly will this become obsolete?
Snook FTW with a brilliant, simple little tip: Creating a Page Break in your print style sheet before comments.
Business Week helps out the Web standards movement with a great article. Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards
I suck at typography. This is very helpful: 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design from Smashing Magazine.
I’m late in posting this, but for posterity: Blasting the Myth of the Fold. By our own Melissa Tarquini. Nicely done.
Handy handy: Iconfinder – icon search engine.
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. […]
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)
Free Fonts at SMeltery. (hat tip Natalie Jost