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Website Performance | CSS Sprite Generator
CSS Sprite Generator automatically created a single source image file from your css files. niiiiice
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Written Observations
Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
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Quick Take
New Amazon.com Design?
Is anyone else noticing a redesigned Amazon.com? Here’s a screenshot, click through for a full version. Note about my recommendations. – I’m very interested in Christian Theology – ESV is my favorite bible translation – I have no idea why they are recommending Casting Crowns to me. – I love Harry Potter
How-To
Tips for Cleaning and Sealing a Deck
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 […]
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Ryan Block on keyword popovers
Ryan Block on keyword popover ads. Amen brother, they will have to fire me to get this code into Engadget.
Reflection
An Event Apart – Chicago 2007
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 […]
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Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor
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?
Link Post
Creating a Page Break – Snook.ca
Snook FTW with a brilliant, simple little tip: Creating a Page Break in your print style sheet before comments.
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Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards
Business Week helps out the Web standards movement with a great article. Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards
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80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design
I suck at typography. This is very helpful: 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design from Smashing Magazine.
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Blasting the Myth of the Fold
I’m late in posting this, but for posterity: Blasting the Myth of the Fold. By our own Melissa Tarquini. Nicely done.
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Iconfinder
Handy handy: Iconfinder – icon search engine.
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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. […]