Recently, a very intelligent and talented designer/author named Rachel Andrew wrote an article for Digital Web Magazine called Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong. It’s an informative, well-written article, complete with figures and examples. To open the article, she states, “When released, Internet Explorer 8 will support many new values for the CSS display [...]
Anyone who has done design or development work knows the frustration that comes with testing in Internet Explorer 6. It got a little better with the release of IE7, but all is not yet right with the world. Well, thanks to some excellent work by Brittish developer Dean Edwards, there are some great simple fixes [...]
I’ve always considered myself a creative person. I used to draw a lot when I was a kid. I’ve written stories, songs, and poems. I’ve even tried my hand at screenwriting. But for as long as I can remember, I’ve had difficulty connecting each step of the creative process and I’ve never really been able [...]
Google announced recently that their spiders have "learned" to crawl and index Flash content on websites. Flash designers are celebrating, CSS designers are probably a bit nervous. There goes part of our ammo in the "why CSS is better than Flash" battle. But, there’s hope for us CSSers. From Google’s own blog entry about the [...]
It seems a redesign comes once a year or so. The last few redesigns applied to this site were products of necessity. I was trying to get a new job.. I wanted to ditch tables, etc. But this one, coming about 13 months after its predecessor, is based on nothing but boredom. I was tired [...]