Friday, May 9th, 2008
Open Office Beta 3
Downloaded the new beta of Open Office, it’s the first one that’s native on the mac. Liking it so far, there are lots of extensions and themes for it.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Why “Reset” Style Sheets Are Bad
Why “Reset” Style Sheets Are BadOkay, Jonathan set the pace, Eric countered, a few people carried on, and me, officially having announced comprehensive reset and undo style sheet criticism in January, feels finally obliged to politely point out that reset style sheets are bad: A novice should not use them, an expert would not use them.
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CSS with vertical rhythm
CSS with vertical rhythmThis tool will help you compute CSS that has a consistent vertical rhythm
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas
Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
According to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn’t that important. Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site elements at the bottom of the page aren’t really able to catch visitors’ attention which is why footers are often forgotten or ignored and not given the attention they deserve.In fact, most footers are rather boring and uninspiring. Designers often use the bottom area to mention everything they haven’t found place for at the top of the site. E.g. disclaimers, W3C-buttons, copyright, “back to the top”-link and contact details. But if most designers forget it, why don’t make use of it? Why don’t use footers to impress visitors with something they actually don’t expect at all?
This post presents creative examples of footers and ideas for footer design. We’ve tried to identify some trends and some interesting approaches you may want to use or develop further in your projects.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
FontCubes.com
Download Free Fonts - FontCubes.com
Here you’ll find the best free PC fonts and free Mac Fonts from the best font artists in the world.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Tomorrow’s CSS Today: 8 Techniques They Don’t Want You To Know
Tomorrow’s CSS Today: 8 Techniques They Don’t Want You To Know [CSS Tutorials]
With all the hype over new and upcoming browser support for advanced CSS features, developers can be confused about the CSS they can include in web projects today. Many of the more advanced features aren’t widely supported by the dominant browsers, but some very useful ones are — including newer features from CSS3.
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According to a poll of 109 historians, George W. Bush is the Worst. President. Ever
According to a poll of 109 historians, George W. Bush is… (kottke.org)
According to a poll of 109 historians, George W. Bush is the Worst. President. Ever, hobnobbing with the likes of Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Franklin Pierce at the bottom of the barrel.
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
65 Resources for Grid-Based Design
65 Resources for Grid-Based Design | Vandelay Website Design
Grid-based design is obviously a popular approach in modern web design. Ford designers that use grids, this post includes links to useful tools that can improve your efficiency and effectiveness, as well as some articles for advanced techniques. For those of you who are not as familiar with the details of grid-based design, there are plenty of articles and learning resources here.
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Vertically center content with CSS
Vdot Media - Vertically center content with CSS
A convenient benefit of using tables is the ability to vertically center content within a cell using the valign attribute. Unfortunately, acheiving the same effect with CSS isn’t so convenient. So, as we continue to move towards tableless structures, there comes a need for a simple and valid CSS alternative. There have been a number of ways to approach this feat, but in this tutorial, I will lay out the technique we use to vertically center content using CSS.
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Pixels to Ems Conversion Table
Pixels to Ems Conversion Table: etc: quick links to good stuff
Designing with ems it necessary to for liquid layouts (or even just setting font sizing) but converting from pixels to ems requires some figuring. This Pixels to Ems Conversion Table makes things a whole lot easier. Worth bookmarking for reference.
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Cross-browser transparent columns
Bits & Pixels – Blog Archive – Cross-browser transparent columns
The column is actually translucent over a solid background.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Where to Find Great High Resolution Wallpaper
Mike Davidson - Where to Find Great High Resolution Wallpaper
There are more links in the comments.
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
CSS Type Set
You use a word type editor to set a block of text the way you want it and you get the CSS to make it look like that on your website.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Cheat Sheets
Scott Klarr >> Programming + Linux + Computers
A directory of links to cheat sheets on a variety of topics
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Meyerweb Reset CSS
The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. The general reasoning behind this was discussed in a May 2007 post, if you’re interested. Reset styles quite often appear in CSS frameworks, and the original “meyerweb reset” found its way into Blueprint, among others.
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