Oct 10
2006

IE7 Is Coming This Month… Are you Ready?

Just a quick note to all out there who haven’t had the opportunity to download the latest release candidate and do some testing on their sites. Microsoft will be releasing IE7 as a download this month — followed by an automatic update to their Windows OS a few weeks later. Read full release

Sep 26
2006

12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards

There’s a great new article in A List Apart #224 outlining what a designer new to Web Standards and CSS can expect upon their first foray into table-less development. I’ve always told folks that the barrier to entry with regard to CSS-based design is steep, but once you get pass the first few hurdles and [...]

Sep 12
2006

A List Apart: Issue 223

There’s a new three-article release from the folks at A List Apart this morning. Two of them are more fun and games and introductory type messages for those new to the ALA site and it’s direction. The gem of three articles is Text-Resize Detection by Lawrence Carvalho and Christian Heilmann. As designers we only really [...]

Sep 06
2006

CSS Frames v2, full-height

I remember reading Roger Johansson’s first article on CSS Frames back in the day and recall being floored that we could still accomplish the effect without the use of frames. This morning, I read his update to that first article and well, I’m still floored — I’m still muttering to myself. The technique, while not [...]

Aug 23
2006

Details of CSS Changes Made In IE7

The folks over at IEBlog have posted an impressive list of CSS bugs and trickery that they have addressed for IE7. Bug fixes include psuedo :hover on non-link items, selectors: first-child, adjacent, attribute, child, and fixed positioning support, to just name a few that I was looking forward to. For a complete breakdown of what [...]

Aug 21
2006

New Book: Web Accessibility – Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance

The folks at friends of ED have just released the next generation of Accessible Websites. It’s got plenty of accessibility goodness including sections on: Understanding assistive technologies Creating accessible content using XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, and PDFs Testing against WCAG (including 2.0) and Section 508 Retrofitting inaccessible sites where necessary As you can see it’s [...]

Jul 28
2006

Microsoft.com Abandons CSS-based Layout

Am I late to this game? I’m not sure how long this refresh of the Microsoft homepage (screenshot) has been live, but I just noticed it. The design is an improvement over the previous iteration, but take a look under the hood — table tags galore, not to mention IE proprietary filters. It wasn’t long [...]

Jul 26
2006

CSS Tools

Via a “latest link” from Andy Budd comes a site that lists plenty of tools to get your CSS groove on. Now you can have one concise list of links instead of sifting through a disorganized set of bookmarks, like myself. Link categories include: CSS Tools CSS-based design galleries CSS-based Layout CSS-based Boxes CSS-based Menus, [...]

Jul 24
2006

Layout Grid Bookmarklet

Leave it to the taleneted Andy Budd to take all the talk about developing with grid images to the next level. Taking the concept to the point of being a development application, Andy has created a few bookmarklets that overlay the a grid image for you. Visit Site

Jul 17
2006

How to Live Happily With a Great Designer

Seth Godin imparts upon those in the managerial areas of our industry a few key points that he feels they should know about working with a designer. Whether you exist in the web industry or the print world, his advice is universal enough, and common sense enough, to speak volumes to many. Visit Site