Category: Layout

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    Part of this complete breakfast.

  • Real type on the web?

    Real type on the web?

    A proposal for a fonts working group is under discussion at the W3C.

  • Is your (website’s) underwear showing?

    Is your (website’s) underwear showing?

    It’s astounding how many web designers forget to specify a background color on their site.

  • AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    AEA Boston 2008 session notes

    Linked session notes and downloads from An Event Apart Boston 2008.

  • Art direction on the web?

    Art direction on the web?

    On Tuesday morning, while Malarkey was furiously getting himself permanently uninvited to Håkon Lie’s Christmas parties, and the jungle drums spoke of nothing but Firefox 3, Jason Santa Maria quietly slipped a torpedo into the…

  • ALA 261: CSS layout redux; in praise of prototyping

    ALA 261: CSS layout redux; in praise of prototyping

    CSS layout is awesome, except when your layout calls for a header, a footer, and columns in between. “Faux Absolute Positioning” combines the strengths (and removes the weaknesses) of absolute positioning and float-based layouts. Plus:…

  • ALA 258: art of community, science of design

    ALA 258: art of community, science of design

    What does it take to build an online community like Flickr’s? And how can we tell if interface design conventions we take for granted actually help or hurt users? In Issue No. 258 of A…