Mar 07
2006

A List Apart: Issue 213

There are a couple of new articles at A List Apart: Flywheels, Kinetic Energy, and Friction by Nick Usborne and Getting Started with Ajax by Aaron Gustafson. Flywheels, Kinetic Energy, and Friction In the first article, Usborne tackles fatal a tipping point in the success or failure of your online business — the problem of [...]

Mar 03
2006

Layout Gala

There are a few active CSS layout resevoirs out there on the web, but nothing like what is presented at Layout Gala. You’ll find 40 different layouts all based on the same markup — fixed columns, fluid widths, you name it. So if you’re struggling with your own layout take a look and see how [...]

Feb 24
2006

Content Injection in Flash with XHTML and sIFR

Eric Webster shares a technique that the company he works for (Digitas) uses to show more than just a headline in Flash via sIFR. The modified script allows you to pass multiple elements into Flash movies as xml. The team has even managed to speed up the process of displaying inline content in Flash. Visit [...]

Feb 22
2006

MapSurface

Back in December, I debated about adding a post to design.Principles pointing my readers to Glenn Jones’ Ajax link tracker, but never did. My thought at the time was whether or not I personally would use something like this when I already have multiple stat applications tracking each of my sites. Plus, I was unsure [...]

Feb 09
2006

Unitless line-heights

I can officially chalk this one up in the “I did not know that” category — and continue to be amazed by Eric Meyer’s CSS knowledge. He can explain it better than I, but to simplify you do not need to include a unit of measure when declaring line-height. Let’s say you have set the [...]

Feb 08
2006

The Triple-X hack for IE7

IE7 is still in beta, and it’s probably a bit early to be relying on any IE7 specific hacks, but just in case you need one… James Edwards at Brothercake has formulated an interesting hack. Utilizing substring matching attribute selectors and the negation pseudo-class, he was able to target IE7 specifically. Visit Site

Feb 06
2006

Five Simple Steps to Typesetting on the Web – Dashes

Mark Boulton adds to his new series with an indepth look at dashes — including hyphens, en dashes and em dashes. Visit Site

Feb 03
2006

LightBox Gone Wild

The creative folks at Particletree have expanded on the popular lightbox.js by Lokesh Dhakar. The demo comes with a fully detailed tutorial. Definitely check this one out. Visit Site

Jan 31
2006

A List Apart: Issue 211

A List Apart has published two excellent articles this week. The first, In Search of the Holy Grail, by Matthew Levine presents a technique for accomplishing as 3-column layout without the usual “sacrifices.” His technique is based on Alex Robinson’s “One True Layout.” His CSS uses negative margins and some padding trickery that causes the [...]

Jan 26
2006

Five Simple Steps to Typesetting on the Web

Mark Boulton is back with what promises to be another excellent series, following up the successes of Five Simple Steps to Better Typography and Five Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems. This time around Mark is tackling the principles of typesetting and how those can be applied to the web. The introduction is a pretty [...]