Jul 17
2005

Five simple steps to designing grid systems – Part 2

Mark Boulton has published part two in his ongoing series on grid systems and design. This second installment introduces the reader to ratios and more complex grid systems. Check it out

Jul 15
2005

Opera 8 and text-indent

Negative text-indents are frequently used in CSS image replacement techniques to hide text that is to be replaced. Here’s an interesting tidbit regarding negative text-indents and Opera 8. Check it out.

Jul 13
2005

Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting

Along with a super clean update to their site design, Sitepoint has a great introduction to AJAX. For those of you out there like myself, who don’t know a whole lot about remote scripting or the XMLHttpRequest protocol, this article may prove to be a valuable primer on the subject. Check it out.

Jul 13
2005

Style a Restaurant Menu with CSS

For those of you out there that deal with clients in the food industries, particularly restaurants, and are having trouble constructing your menu page with CSS this short but sweet article from Web Graphics is just what you need. It employs a couple of float positioning techiques and definition lists to accomplish a nicely styled [...]

Jul 06
2005

Five Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems – Part 1

Mark Boulton is at it again. After his highly successful Five Simple Steps to Better Typography, he’s bringing all of us up to date on designing with grid systems. Part 1 is a nice introduction to grid ratios. Don’t forget to also check out the preface he wrote a few days earlier. Check it out

Jul 05
2005

WaSP to Collaborate with Microsoft to Promote Web Standards

Back from vacation and the first bit of big news I see is an announcement from WaSP. Check it out

Jun 24
2005

On Vacation

I’m heading out for a much needed vacation. Updates will be back in about a week or so.

Jun 20
2005

Fun with Drop Shadows

As pointed out by the author of this article, there are several CSS techniques for creating drop shadows on your images. This one seems to be a bit more flexible using only one background image to create the different shadow effects. Check it out.

Jun 14
2005

The Principles of Design

Digital Web Magazine has introduced a new column to their publication: Design in Theory and Practice.

Jun 10
2005

Universal Child Replacement

Every once in a while you’re reminded about how cool this CSS stuff is and just how much more you really have to learn. This post by Eric is one of those moments. In it he outlines a very simple yet effective method that even IE will employ when targeting grandchild selectors. Check it out.