Archive for the "Web Design" Category

September 25th 2007 @ 1:40 pm Filed under: Web Design Tags: ,

Through Digg, I found a LifeHacker article explaining the good and bad sides of OpenID. While the article in itself was an interesting read, a video Google Tech Talk titled “The Implications of OpenID” was posted alongside the text.
It’s the best, straight-to-the-point informational source I have stumbled upon, yet.
Oh and you should know that [...]

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September 24th 2007 @ 3:49 pm Filed under: CSS, Web Design Tags: ,

There are several web design projects I am actively working on at the moment. Some are for my real day job but many are personal endeavors I am likely not to finish. Nonetheless, these projects force me into solve interesting problems I knew someone else has already solved before me.
Why reinvent something when you can [...]

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June 11th 2007 @ 1:41 pm Filed under: CSS, Javascript, Web Design, XHTML Tags: ,

Long time indifference
Yahoo! is not a place I like to hang around. I guess it has all to do with how they handled the presentation of their search results back in the day. I never was a fan of categorized results — at least wasn’t ready to try harder to use them at that [...]

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November 23rd 2006 @ 10:54 am Filed under: PHP, The Music Tank, Web Design Tags: ,

The main PHP Class file of The Music Tank stopped loading altogether yesterday. After scanning lines after lines of code trying to guess what what generating an error I still hadn’t found the problem until late last night.
What made it nebulous was that instead of having a message from PHP describing a known error [...]

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August 25th 2006 @ 11:02 am Filed under: CSS, Web Design, XHTML Tags: ,

Jeff Croft, not afraid of being lynched by the new wave of accessibility-aware Web 2.0 designers, has posted a new article asking if accessibilty has been taken too far.
While I’m guessing his opinion may have been toned down on the way from his head to his hands, I do believe he has a point. To [...]

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August 14th 2006 @ 8:59 am Filed under: Web Design Tags: , , ,

Here are a the few links that caught my attention this morning:

Mark Simonson published his first article on typography on his blog.
A List Apart has been updated with issue #221.
in obscuro posted a tutorial entitled Optimizing images for web which is worth reading if you use Photoshop or if you’d like to understand a few [...]

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April 26th 2006 @ 8:48 am Filed under: Web Design, XHTML Tags:

A lot of people at the moment are doing websites that follow the Strict XHTML 1.1 guidelines but don’t even know why they do so or why they should do so. Juicy Studio published an article on the history of accessibility because knowing we’re you’ve been can tell you a lot on were you’re going.

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April 21st 2006 @ 8:16 am Filed under: CSS, Web Design Tags:

Did you know you could remove the dotted border around your links? I didn’t. You just have to specify the outline CSS property. You can read a more in-depth explanation at Sonspring.
a { outline: none; }

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February 17th 2006 @ 9:58 am Filed under: Web Design Tags: , ,

It’s quite obvious that not having to load a page countless times will save you bandwidth. Even I was aware of that. It’s just nice to see people making concrete tests to prove the concept.
Keep in mind however that this is not the best case scenario for rendering all of a website’s content because [...]

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February 7th 2006 @ 11:38 am Filed under: Flash, Web Design Tags: , ,

The use of a static method to delegate events in Flash is one of the easiest ways of associating functions to an event.

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