Tag: CSS
The language de amour.
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Redesign in progress
The body and bottom of the next zeldman.com design are now finished. Tomorrow I start working on the top.
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ALA 282: Life After Georgia
Can we finally get real type on the web? Zeldman interviews The Font Bureau’s David Berlow. Plus Stephen P. Anderson shows how the value of beauty in design transcends aesthetic pleasure.
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Art direction plug-in for WordPress
Art-direct individual entries in your WordPress blog without hacking the publishing tool or expending energy on time-consuming workarounds.
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Making Modular Layout Systems
Jason Santa Maria details his approach to building a modular system for laying out pages with CSS—“a handy way to predictably tame content without becoming predictable.”
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A List Apart is changing
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course.
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SiteAssist Professional
Released Wednesday, August 27th, SiteAssist Professional creates entire CSS-based websites in minutes. Since that sounds ridiculous and impossible, I’ll say it again: the product creates CSS-based websites in minutes.
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ALA 266: next generation sprites, metaphors
CSS Sprites, the next generation. Cartography, the next metaphor for webmaking. Dave Shea and Aaron Rester aim high and score in Issue No. 266 of A List Apart, for people who make websites.
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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:…
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Video: Eric Meyer on generated content
Live onstage at An Event Apart New Orleans, 2008, web design conference co-founder and CSS expert Eric Meyer explains why the W3C’s recommendation to allow browsers to insert quotation marks doesn’t actually make a whole…
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CSS Menu Writer debuts
Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs. I got to spend an hour with the program prior to…
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ALA 256: map rolling & data viz
In Issue No. 256 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Wilson Miner shares three techniques for incorporating data visualization into standards-based web navigation patterns, and Paul Smith shows how to replicate Google…
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Zeldman on Talk Radio Today
Live today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, I’m this week’s guest on “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the leading internet talk radio show on the “challenging and compelling canvas of today’s design world.”
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Version targeting, take two
In Issue No. 253 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Jeremy Keith says version targeting in IE8 is all right but its default is all wrong. I argue that the default seems…
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Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers…
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ALA 252: New library, long hallway
Keep your markup clean with DOM scripting and learn to play nice in the long hallway.