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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Quick Tip #1 – Image Replacement

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Problem Image replacement can be easily abused; but when used properly (like replacing logo text) it’s a great resource. Image replacement without extra markup usually means setting text-indent:-9999px on your link. And this works great great. But in a lot of browsers it leaves a focus outline that runs way off the page to the [...]

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SXSW Notes pt. 3 – CSS3

Friday, March 20th, 2009

This panel had representitives from each vendor (not apple) and they each took turns showcasing the upcoming CSS3 support in their browser. MOZ nth-child selector color module [opacity, rbga] border-image border-radius box-shadow * word-wrap:break-word * font-adjust @font-face @media queries ( @media(width:22em){blah} -moz-transform: skewX(20deg); -webkit-transform: skewX(20deg); Future from MOZ width calculations new layout systems for user [...]

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This Week in Links 2/18

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Surfin’ Safari: CSS Animation Personally, I think animation should be left to JavaScript, but this is actually pretty neat, you have to download the open source version of WebKit to see it, but it’s definitely worth a look into the future of CSS. Get Your Flickr ID I’m currently building a refreshed version of cssKarma.com [...]

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Framing an Image

Monday, 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 [...]

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Centering an Image

Tuesday, 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 [...]

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This Week in Links 12/2

Monday, 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 [...]

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Header and Footer in the Semantic Web

Thursday, 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. [...]

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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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