September 2009
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Sun 20th
Better Button and Nav Interactions
Using a simple button example to remind myself about the fundamentals of user interaction and expectations.
January 2008
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Sun 27th
Easy Date-Based Image Mastheads
Around Christmas, I had a client ask for masthead imagery that would automatically swap in/out based on the time of year. Here is the HTML/PHP I used…
November 2007
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Sun 18th
The Fuss Over Grids and CSS Frameworks
A protracted discussion about CSS frameworks like Blueprint has broken out over at Jeff Croft’s blog. I respect everyone contributing to it, but the energy spent on that topic seems ridiculous with a capital R.
One of the only comments which spoke to me was by Jon Hicks:
I mentioned CSS frameworks on The Rissington Podcast, and [...]
August 2007
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Sat 18th
Styling Your Wordpress Comments
A fun part of customizing Wordpress themes is designing a comments format which complements the rest of the site. Here are three examples from recent projects, including code samples and downloads to the original .PSDs…
May 2007
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Sat 12th
Baseline Stylesheets
As linked in Smashing Magazine’s article “70 Expert Ideas for Better CSS Coding“, various developers have posted source code for their baseline stylesheet at one point or the other: Christian Montoya, Eric Meyer, Ping, Mike Rundle…any others come to mind?
For posterity I’ll go ahead and post mine here as it will no doubt evolve into [...]
January 2006
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Thu 12th
CSS3 Selectors Explained
The folks at 456 Berea Street have created a nice resource for CSS3 specs. Browser support is slightly better than I thought, but still not great.
