Oct 27
2005

Improved Form Field Focus

If you’ve ever used a form field focus script on a large (slow loading) page, you know that once the page finally loads, even after you’ve already started typing in a different field, most scripts will refocus the cursor on the predetermined field. This can cause quite a headache for any customer using your form. [...]

Oct 25
2005

A List Apart: Issue 206

A List Apart has published a couple of great articles today. The first, Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign is an excellent piece by Cameron Mall. In it he makes a differentiation between site redesigns and realignments. …Redesigners often rely on emotional responses to aesthetics in justifying a redesign. …Realigners cite strategic objectives and user [...]

Oct 24
2005

CSS Shorthand Guide

Dustin Diaz is compiling a pretty indepth guide on CSS shorthand—how to properly write it, what elements, if left alone, will default to CSS spec, and so on. The only thing missing would be a nice printable PDF. Visit Site

Oct 18
2005

Introducing DomCorners

From the creator of Nifty Corners comes another technique for building rounded corners with CSS and JavaScript. This one, however, uses an image to build the corners. The actual script is super simple and light weight, and based on the examples provieded doesn’t bloat the markup too badly. Visit Site

Oct 18
2005

Variable Scope for New Programmers

There’s a nice, short article over at Digital Web this morning that should be of interest to those of you out there that are either new to programming or are looking to get more into it. Variable Scope for New Programmers outlines a few pointers when specifying variables in your JavaScript, PHP, etc. The tips [...]

Oct 17
2005

Form Help without Popups

Building online forms and other contact applications often result in the need for adding a “help” tool to better explain to the user how to complete the form. Most times that’s done with the aid of popup windows. Here’s a nice bit of JavaScript that produces help tips inline—popups need not apply. Visit Site

Oct 12
2005

A List Apart: Issue 205

There’s a new issue of A List Apart up. The first, Ambient Findability: Findability Hacks, is an excerpt from Peter Morville’s new book, Ambient Findability. It’s quite a nice teaser for the book and topic that should be of interest to those of you like me that are fairly unfamiliar with the concepts included. Never [...]

Oct 11
2005

A Pair of Interviews

Patrick Lauke is asked ten questions regarding CSS, accessibility, the CSS Zen Garden and more. For those of you more interested in DOM scripting, Digital Web has a great interview with Jeremy Keith.

Oct 07
2005

CSS Specificity Clarified

I’ve run into this issue on several occassions, but never really understood until now; thanks to Molly and Malarkey. I’m not even going to attempt to try and explain what they say regarding the “cascade” and specificity. Maybe this will help you if you’ve ever run into an issue regarding CSS not showing up properly [...]

Oct 06
2005

How To Code With Others

At some point in your career, if you haven’t already had to deal with it, you will be working with someone else’s code. It’s a fact of life in the web design/development industry. I’ve had my fair share of bad code and I’m sure that someone has had to deal with my particular style of [...]