News & Announcements
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Apr 13 2007
HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web
While HTML 4.01 is formally an SGML-based document format, the only clients actually treating HTML that way are validators. Browsers, on the other hand, treat HTML documents as tag soup—they try to make sense out of, and display, even the most horridly broken document to their best ability.
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Apr 10 2007
Free CSS Layouts
These CSS Layout offers full Grade-A browser support. That means that these CSS Layout will look and behave the same in internet browsers like Internet Explores 6 (IE6), Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), Firefox, Opera, Safari and so on.
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Apr 08 2007
FlashTracer
While running any .swf Flash file in your browser you can see all the output generated by the "trace" flash functions in this sidebar component…
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Apr 08 2007
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
For many web developers, myself included, the most intimidating part of the design process is getting started. Imagine for a moment that you’re sitting at your desk with nothing other than a cup of coffee and the business card of a potential client who needs a basic corporate web site. Usually, a business card speaks volumes about a company’s identity, and could be used as design inspiration.
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Apr 05 2007
101 CSS Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness
All the cool kids are using CSS to separate content from appearance on their sites. Here is 101 resources that will get your feet wet with CSS, teach you some new tricks and techniques, clean your code, and hit the ground running with pre-made layouts.
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Apr 05 2007
HundredPercentHeight
Setting a div to fill up the whole window is not as simple as setting its height to 100%. The reason this doesn’t work is that percentages (when used as the unit on height or width; text size is another story) are relative to their parent dimensions. If you haven’t set a height on the parent, the div with 100% height has nothing to base that height off of.
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Apr 03 2007
The new Sitescore has landed
It’s finally here. Faster, better featured and with more shades of red than ever before. But they’re not letting just anyone use it yet.
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Apr 03 2007
Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces
While the list of Web safe fonts we have come to know and love is relied heavily upon, it can be very beneficial to include similar default Linux fonts in your font-family as well.
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Apr 02 2007
Where did my Design go? CSS Naked Day '07
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your body.
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Mar 29 2007
CSS Tips
1. Color shortcuts and color conversions, 2. CSS bug hunting, 3. Media separation, 4. Center the thing, 5. Anti-aliased PNG files, 6. Quick ‘n’ dirty rounded box corners, 7. Opacity, 8. Cross-browser padding, 9. CSS hacks, 10. Moving layers