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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 [...]
Tags: conference, CSS, jquery
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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. [...]
Tags: andy clarke, CSS, semantics, xhtml
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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 [...]
Tags: CSS, finances, font, javascript, jquery, seo, twitter
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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 [...]
Tags: CSS, form, ui, xhtml
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This Week in Links 10/6
Monday, October 6th, 2008
Tags: CSS, jquery, mac, maintainability, twitter
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This Week in Links – 9/4
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
I’d like to try and start sharing some links once a week with everyone since I’m settling into a new job and I don’t want my posts to become few and far between. Just to let you know that I am doing some interesting things right now, but have just run a little short on [...]
Tags: CSS, javascript, jquery, links
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Your Body and You
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
About couple weeks ago I wrote a post called “Styling your body” which attempted to break the convention of using a “container” or “wrap” div when building a new site. I showed how to cut out a (usually) unnecessary div element and clean up your code. In this post I hope to show you how [...]
Tags: CSS, php, tips
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Styling Your Body
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Diving into the depths of CSS involves much more than just mastering selectors, properties and semantic (X)HTML, it has a lot to do with knowing when you need extra elements (span, div, etc). What do I mean? Since CSS layouts have exploded into the mainstream of web design there have been few designer/developer types who [...]
Tags: CSS, design, tips
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A True CSS Table
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
A few years ago I while I was working at a community college in Virginia I was building a site for their Arts & Sciences department and trying out some think, different colored borders for the site container and I noticed that when two borders intersect they form a diagonal line. You can see it [...]
Tags: CSS, tips, xhtml
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Tomorrow’s CSS Today [SitePoint Article]
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I wrote an article for SitePoint called “Tomorrow’s CSS Today: 8 Techniques They Don’t Want You To Know” that got published today. Let me know what you think: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/tomorrows-css-today With ease, Tim Also, I’d like to apologize for not participating in CSS Naked Day this year. With the SitePoint article going live today, I thought [...]
Tags: CSS, publication, sitepoint
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