Framing an Image
February 9th, 2009
I’m not sure exactly how well known it is, but you can put a background image on any HTML element… even an image. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it done on a live site before, but it can be very useful for creating an image template for repeated use; without having to do a [...]
Validating with WAI-ARIA
February 5th, 2009
I was reading Validating WAI-ARIA in HTML and XHTML. Since Roger has commenting turned off on his site now, I thought I’d write up a quick post with some thoughts on this. For those who don’t know, ARIA is a type of accessibility for Ajax apps (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). And WAI stands for "Web [...]
Where I Get My News
January 16th, 2009
This morning it occurred to me that I haven’t written a post about my RSS feeds. I’ve been meaning to for about a year now, but for whatever reason it hasn’t happened until now. I rely on my feed reader for a lot of inspiration so I feel like I should share that and maybe [...]
Centering an Image
January 6th, 2009
<div align=”center”> is deprecated. It’s been deprecated for a long time, but it keeps creeping up for things like center aligning an image. Another popular way to do this is to wrap an extra div around the image and set the text alignment to center. This creates (as you might know, I hate), an added [...]
This Week in Links 12/16
December 16th, 2008
10 Tips to Improve Your UI Smashing Magazine, once again, has a great article about user interface. This article gives you some quick and helpful tips on improving your user interface design. A lot of stuff we should all be doing. Anti-RSI This is a Mac program to help prevent RSI (which is basically carpal [...]
This Week in Links 12/2
December 8th, 2008
CSS Deployment 101 Reinhold Weber talks about how to compress a CSS file before you push it to the server. this will shave off some load time by reducing everything to one line and removing much of the white space. It also allows you to modularize your CSS without it effecting HTTP requests, because this [...]
5 Ways to Build a Better Team
December 2nd, 2008
I’m about to start a long day of travel back to the West coast (FLO to CLT to LAS to LAX) after visiting my family for Thanksgiving. And while I spend my last night in the Carolinas I’m thinking about how my current job compares to past jobs I’ve had, when it comes to the [...]
Header and Footer in the Semantic Web
November 20th, 2008
A couple years ago I read through Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS and it really made me think about semantic naming conventions I had otherwise taken for granted. By now, most of us (at least people reading this blog) practice using semantic markup and meaningful class & ID names. But can we do it better? Probably. [...]
This Week in Links 11/11
November 11th, 2008
Krop.com I figured with the economy what it is and a lot of web folks looking for work I’d help out and post my favorite job site, Krop.com. I like this site for a few different reasons: I found my current job there They have a very simple interface You can sign up for e–mail [...]
