Mike Davidson: Making Visited Links Radical
Mike Davidson: Making Visited Links Radical: "Jakob Neilson flunkies..."
I work for one of these, pity me...
Mike Davidson - one man, one blog, one person who won't use the term incremental. He goes right for radical.
centricle : css filters (css hacks)
centricle : css filters (css hacks): "Will the browser apply the rule(s)?"
That's just the question of the day. Thanks to the gracious host at centricle for posting this interactive matrix of unusual approaches to css. Some call it "hacks" and other's call it "filters". I'd be less inclined to use the former only because you really don't want people to think "hacking" when they think "css".
2 column glory
Really?
A 2 column CSS layout that works in Netscape 4... and they said it couldn't be done. Shame on them.
Leave it to
Mark at RealWorldStyle to get things kickin' in the right direction.
Integrated Web Design author, Molly Holzschlag.
Integrated Web Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management: "Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management"
Anyone who starts articles with lines like, "What the heck is that?" is my kind of writer. I first heard
Molly Holzschlag speak at the Web Chicago 2000 while she was presenting a straightforward discussion of XHTML for newbies like myself.
No use on a major site?
You may be thinking that these techniques have no place on major internet sites.
Both myself and Douglas Bowman disagree. While I’m working on u.com, he’s got
something to say about ms.com. Take a look at the numbers on his analysis. They’re staggering.
BTW – Douglas Bowman’s company
StopDesign is responsible for the most recent
redesign of Adaptive Path’s site.
The CSS Fight
Wired News went all CSS Layout, and give us an
explanation.
By switching to XHTML and completely adopting CSS, Wired News pages now load
faster, and are at once more accessible to all Web browsers and specialized
browsing environments used by the visually or physically impaired. By stripping
out font, color, and margin rules from the markup, and aggregating all those
style rules into just a couple of CSS files, design changes can be propagated to
thousands of pages instantly.
For benefits, we have:
- Faster speed,
- Lower weight (kb)
- Easier maintenance
- Faster development
- 100% accessible
- Lower customer support needs
To read more about Wired & ESPN’s redesign and an editorial of the approach, see this article at Sitepoint, where a there’s some additional detailed writing about a head-to-head evaluation of Tables vs. CSS (second article is more code approach related).
Web Design from Scratch - WDFS Design Tutorials
The design tutorial on
WDFS is a concise reference, and excellent reading for code-headed design runts like myself. I'm good on nuts and bolts, all the way, and creative enough to generate decent design. But design deserves more attention on this site. And the
Basics at WDFS really make some excellent points:
Basics explores the factors that influence communication between web-based content and the people who use it. Basics also describes methods for approaching the discipline of web design, to help you maximise the success you get for your effort.
Here's another example from
the web design process section: "A goal should be described in the present tense, such as: 'This site is complete. It communicates a compelling message of capability and expertise."
I like the sound of that, "capability and expertise". Very nice combination.
Holt Uncensored : guilty of keyword stuffing
Let's put aside the obnoxious content of Ms. Pat Hold's
<title> tag, and just take for a moment her very informative and relevant article
The Ten Mistakes.
...the following is a list I'll be referring to people *before* they submit anything in writing to anybody (me, agent, publisher, your mom, your boss). From email messages and front-page news in the New York Times to published books and magazine articles, the 10 ouchies listed here crop up everywhere. They're so pernicious that even respected Internet columnists are not immune.
I'm a huge fan of good grammar, enormously huge. I even take the extra time to put correct grammar into text messages, which is borderline obsessive. Writing is all about communicating effectively, not just efficiently. Why leave the interpretation up to chance, or worse - up to the opinion of someone who knows grammar better than you do?
Shameless navel watching
This post is hereby nothing more than shameless note-taking for future personal review.
