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Last week’s rant about professionalism in Web design was supposed to be a short intro to this post. Basically my point was going to be that the profession of Web design and development has leveled up many times over the last decade, and it looks like some great industry standard practices are starting to settle […]
I”m excited to announce the launch of the new Gospel Coalition mobile Web site that I was honored to help work on. The mobile site puts the best of their fresh content (blogs, articles, book reviews, videos, etc) at your fingertips. My role was to create the front end code, including HTML, styles, and javascript […]
Last week, I heard about a brand new HTML & CSS book called, appropriately “HTML & CSS“. Preview images teased a gorgeously designed book, so I bought it. I was not disappointed. GET THIS BOOK.
Eric Meyer has created some Diagnostic Styling that allows you to see your bad code. Fleshing this idea out a little bit could be a useful tool for every Web Standardista’s arsenal (to mix metaphors).
CSS Sprite Generator automatically created a single source image file from your css files. niiiiice
I saw CSS Sculptor last night on a tweet from Molly. Zeldman’s post made me take a second look. This could be really useful in quickly generating CSS layouts efficiently, though my pride is preventing me from wanting to purchase a wizard to do this. How quickly will this become obsolete?
Snook FTW with a brilliant, simple little tip: Creating a Page Break in your print style sheet before comments.
Any Web developer who codes CSS on a regular basis likely has conventions, official, or ad hoc, that they’ve created for themselves to save themselves time and effort. Standard style declarations for common layout or typography needs are found in many places on the Internet. Mark pointed me to blueprintcss, a framework for css coding. […]
People met – Steve Smith – Met briefly on the bus home from bowling. Reminisced a bit about tables/css layout and how terrible tables are. – Molly – Bryan Veloso – Jim Renaud – several members of the Facebook team – Jeremy Hubert – He’s not a designer, but has great looking business cards. Odd, […]
Crude title, but, isnoop.net CSS Superdouche can significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names.
Roger revisits styling form controls with CSS.
Easy cross-browser transparency using CSS only. Not PNG unfortunately, but still useful.