Building your own web2.0 layout
Funny, true, and actually kind of useful how-to on building a web2.0 website. I want to go with something much brighter for this site when/if I get around to a redesign.
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Sweet titles
Just added here on this site. Looks pretty good and was easy to implement. Now I've got to start adding good title attributes to links again.
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The Holy Grail of CSS layouts
Three columns with a fixed-width sidebar for your navigation and another on the right. Add a liquid center and make them all equal heights and you've got the Holy Grail
off CSS-only layouts.
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Scalable logos
Uses Flash to scale a logo when you change the font size in the browser.
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Bubble tooltips
A very nice and standards-based way to use only CSS and JavaScript to add fancy tooltips to your site's links. (Example page.)
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Apple's iWeb is no bueno
Considering how much better Dreamweaver 8's XHTML and CSS support has gotten over the last few year's Apple's new iWeb sure does output some nasty code.
<div class="paragraph Body">
Yikes.
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Search engines and canonical URLs
I just added the two rules to my .htaccess file, hopefully it won't screw anything up.
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Refresh Dallas launches
First meeting of new local Dallas community of web designers and developers is November 10th in Plano. It's right down the road so I'll be there.
Posted in Design & Development
20 great and free fonts
Some very good looking ones on there.
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CSS Specificity Wars
Great, funny, and easy to follow explanation of how the specificity of ID's, classes, and elements affect your CSS.
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CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1
Roger Johannsson explains the basics of selectors plus the universal, type, id, and class selectors. I'd love to be able to use the attribute or child selectors but IE doesn't support them, my fingers are crossed for IE 7.
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Originality in Logo Design
Complete and blatant rip-offs, accidental rip-offs, too similar inspirations are all getting more and more common in logo design.
I really need to spend some time working and creating a true logo for seven22 and fore here too.
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Mike Davidson's MT 3.2 impressions
Mike's initial impressions of the upgrades and a few things he's still waiting for either Six Apart or some plug-in writer to take care of.
Sure is nice to know that someone like Mike has Anil and the rest of the crew's ear.
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A List Apart 4.0
New everything, front-end, back-end, design. Back-end CMS was by Brian Alvey of Weblogs, Inc., I had no idea he was involved at all with web standards and design.
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About going solo
Advice for anyone with thoughts/dreams of becoming a freelance web designer.
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Design In-Flight closes shop
I was a DIF subscriber and enjoyed the first 2 issues a lot. I never took the time to sit down and read the latest two though, I need to.
(via Authentic Boredom)
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Preload :hover images in CSS
Something I'll have to take advantage of since fixing this site's menu with PNGs is proving to be a pain in the butt.
a,
a:hover,
a:focus { background: url(image_hover.gif); }
a:link { background: url(image_default.gif); }
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TexasSports.com using SlideShowPro
Was looking for photos of last night's Texas game and saw that TexasSports.com is using SlideShowPro for their galleries now. I wonder when that happened. They have a separate slideshow set up for each sport, and then each slideshow contains multiple galleries.
Pretty cool implementation.
Posted in Design & Photos & Sports
Hide CSS with @import
Table listing all the different rules to use @import
to hide CSS from certain browsers.
(via CSS Beauty)
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Logo trends of 2005
LogoLounge looks at all of this year's trends in logo design.
I must touch up/finish/redo seven22's logo ASAP.
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