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PNG Headers
A neat little trick to layer a couple of png files over eachother with a bit of CSS and some proprietary markup to get IE to behave. PNG Headers
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Replacing Select Boxes
Similar to Fahrner Image Replacement, only with Select Boxes instead of text! Select Something New, part 1 (parts 2 and 3 coming…)
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“Deluxe” CSS Dropdown Menus
Deluxe CSS Dropdown Menus. As much as I dislike dropdown menus, this looks like it could prove useful sometime. All CSS, list tags, and a bit of javascript to get IE to behave.
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Nifty Corners
A neat little CSS/DOM trick to round the corners of a div (or other styled block element). More Nifty Corners
Book Review
Web Standards Solutions
Dan Cedarholm “The Markup and Style Handbook”. A great resource for effective Web development with Web standards.
Book Review
Don’t Make Me Think
Steve Krug IF YOU HAVE TO GET ONE WEB DESIGN BOOK, MAKE IT THIS ONE. An amazing look at Web usability and user-centered design. I call it “the Bible”. (note, this is the second edition, which is not out yet. I have read the first edition, and I’m sure this second one is only going […]
Book Review
Defensive Design for the Web
37 Signals A must read for Web application developers. “How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points”.
Book Review
Designing with Web Standards
Jefferey Zeldman This is the starting point. If you are looking to learn about Web development, start here.
Essay
An Accessibility Primer
This is a helpful starting point for developing for Web accessibility. Accessibility from the Ground Up. Yes, Web accessibility is growing up. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 was released over five years ago, in May 1999. This year, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will release Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. WCAG is the international standard […]
Commentary
Intuitive Web Design
Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering has some interesting commentary on What makes a design seem intuitive. The distance between current knowledge and target knowledge has a technical name: “The Gap”. (Subsequently, an entire chain of clothing stores was named after it!) The Knowledge Gap is where design happens. We don’t need to design to […]
Quick Take
Google search update
Crazy. I’m listed as #4 for a search for “Web Design Blog” on google. Not that millions of people search for that I guess. It’s still kinda cool :) What’s weird is that I haven’t done much with this blog in over a month. I feel like I should pick it back up or something. […]
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Web design as architechture
Another gem from my hero D. Keith Robinson of asterisk Web design like building a house (a serious metaphor) A beautiful analogy: Looking at this metaphor in relation to professional Web design now we seem to be building quite a few functional log cabins, and a whole bunch of pretty dollhouses that no-one can live […]