The Daily Report
5 December 2003 :::
8 am est
ALA 165: Rounded Corners, Slashdot II
CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners & Borders
by Søren Madsen
Must CSS layouts be boxy and hard-edged? In this article, we’ll show how customized borders and corners can be applied to fully fluid and flexible layouts with dynamic content, using sound and semantically logical markup.
Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards Part II
by Daniel M. Frommelt
In Part I, we showed how Slashdot could save money and reduce bandwidth requirements by converting to semantic XHTML markup and CSS layout. In Part II, we explore how standards-compliant markup and deft use of CSS could make Slashdot (and your sites) play nicely in print and on handheld devices.
Tech Support
Longtime contributing authors J. David Eisenberg and Waferbaby have joined the ALA staff as technical editors. Thanks, boys! :::