Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Books that made me a better designer
Friday, May 7th, 2010
This is a list of books that have had a big impact on the way I design & developer Web sites. A lot of the content in books now-a-days can be found on various blogs, but the books below all have something in them that I really haven’t been able to find anywhere else. Transcending [...]
Tags: ajax, books, CSS, learning, mobile, sketching, ui
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Penn UI Conference & HTML 5
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
I’m speaking at the upcoming Penn UI Conference July 21 & 22 in Philadelphia this year. It’s a great conference with a high profile history of speakers, so I was definitely honored to have been asked to contribute. My talk will be on HTML 5, and loosely based on my Smashing Magazine article: HTML 5 [...]
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Sliding Labels v2 – Patch
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
window.location = “http://www.csskarma.com/blog/sliding-labels-plugin/” Please use version 3 of sliding labels with updated options and bug fixes at: http://www.csskarma.com/blog/sliding-labels-plugin/ Last week I wrote an article about sliding form labels that got quite a bit of attention. Many of the commenters brought up a couple good points/bug in the Sliding Label code that I wanted to address [...]
Tags: advanced, forms, jquery, ui
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Form Design with Sliding Labels
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Please use version 3 of sliding labels with updated options and bug fixes at: http://www.csskarma.com/blog/sliding-labels-plugin/ A few weeks ago I was reading an article on form UI by Luke Wroblewski of Yahoo!. For those who aren’t familiar with Luke, he (quite literally) wrote the book on good form design. In the article, one certain section [...]
Tags: advanced, forms, jquery, ui
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Conditional Animation Speed in jQuery
Friday, January 8th, 2010
For years (and by “years”, I most likely mean “the years since I started using jQuery… maybe 2″), there’s been one aspect of jQuery that’s bugged the crap out of me, the animation speed. View demo We’ve all probably seen the problem that happens in many drop down menus of varying height. We set slideDown(300) [...]
Tags: advanced, javascript, jquery, ui
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What You Need to Know About Behavioral CSS
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Hi all, I had a new article published over the weekend at Smashing Magazine. Check it out and let me know what you think! Behavioral CSS I wrote it quite a while ago and it seems to be showing a bit in the comments, but overall, I’m pretty happy with the way it came out [...]
Tags: article, CSS, smashing magazine
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10 Videos for the Web Community
Friday, August 7th, 2009
I was poking around YouTube last night watching some design videos and I thought I’d share them since it’s been my RSS feed has been a bit stale lately (I’ve been working on a pretty big redesign for this site). Enjoy! Web Design Mistakes Duration: 3m 52s Watching someone use a screen reader Duration: 3m [...]
Tags: beginner, kindalame, video, youtube
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10 Tips to Create a More Usable Web
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
My First usability article came out today on Web Designer Depot “10 Tips to Create a More Usable Web” Don’t get me wrong, I like writing about CSS, but this was a nice change of pace. Anyway, Let me know what you think!
Tags: article, usability
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