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Archive for October, 2008

This Week in Links 10/27

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Better CSS Font Stacks A good article on how to jazz up your stacks to try and take advantage of users who have more fonts installed. I’m all for this, and as long as it’s done carefully, can get a nice version of progressive enhancement. 5 Terrible SEO Ideas Richard Bradshaw goes over some trendy [...]

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Clickable Labels

Monday, October 20th, 2008

In form design, there are many things you can do to improve usability, many of which have to do with label placement. I won’t go into the depths of it, but Chris from CSS-Tricks.com wrote a good article about placement, not too long ago. Read Chris’s article here Why read this? This reason I’m sitting [...]

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This Week in Links 10/15

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

One Click, The Importance of UI Many times my link lists back up a few weeks and I have to revisit an article to really remember what it was about. When I did that to this one, I moved it up to the top of the list. It’s a very interesting article on user interface [...]

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Active navigation with jQuery

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

I was building a site last week and came across some jQuery code for active navigation. It’s very simple and works real well. I’m using it on some secondary navigation and still using my body class for the main nav. Active navigation with a body class body.home #nav ul li.navhome{font-weight:700;} So I’m still doing that, [...]

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This Week in Links 10/6

Monday, October 6th, 2008

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Setting your Apple icon

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Getting your own iPhone app icon is easier than you’d think. I was recently working on a project where the client wanted to make sure that if a user added his site to their iPhone home screen, there would be a pleasing icon. Apple used a lot of forward thinking when they implemented the apple-touch-icon. [...]

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