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About two-thirds of my time at work is spent banging my head against some sort of content management system. One that I am in the process of developing, and another hulking behemoth that I have been asked to “help” with. If I were ever to build another CMS up from scratch (which I am currently […]
All Web designers like image-based rollover navigation right? (I don’t anymore, the java-not-script/tag-soup combinations of code usually make it completely inaccessible) Well, then along came Pixy’s fast CSS rollovers to save the day. Here is a great improvement on that concept: Pixy Rollovers with the ability to use transparent PNG’s Beautiful.
Also handy for CSS tabs: inverted tabs
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.
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 […]
Dave Shea (the creator of the famous CSS Zen Garden wrote an excellent quick little essay on where to start in learning to design Web sites according to Web standards. A Roadmap to Standards If you consider yourself a Web designer, or want to be one, and don’t currently design to W3C standards (or, for […]
Ahh the possibilites. Destorying any notion that table layouts are necessary for anything. The CSS Zen Garden
*update* Apprently they have redesigned this site for whatever reason. Which is really good, because their old site was simply a ripoff of (tribute to?) WSU. It’s hard to be creative when someone tells you to rip a site’s design off. I have been working on this project since last fall through ISU Extension IT. […]
Forms are usually pretty messy to deal with in a pure CSS layout. They look very nice in tables, but are rather hard and hackey to deal with without tables. The Man In Blue , along with Eric Meyer came up with some very pretty ways of dealing with Accessible, Semantic, Table-less form layouts
A nice resource by Dave Shea (with colaboration from the Web community). Helpful to have on hand when developing a site with CSS. CSS Crib Sheet
If you are a Web developer, you should know that CSS-based layouts have distinct and heavy advantages over traditional, hacky, table-based layouts. If you don’t know this, you should read this article on why you should use CSS with your Web designs by Greg Rewis from Macromedia Recently, however, a novice user asked a question, […]
From the great Dave Shea (creator of the CSS Zen Garden. (no relation to Dan (At least I don’t think))) (yay for parenthetical statements). I used to think [that you should develop first in IE, then test in Mozilla and the rest], but there’s a good reason why my mindset shifted. If you develop in […]