Archive for June, 2008

Surprising results again, at least for me. “Don’t Care – As long as there isn’t a standards war” was actually in the lead for a little while, but was ultimately beat out by “XHMTL 2“.

I …

I was recently criticized that my sites weren’t dynamic, and that no one would hire me because everyone wants a dynamic site. Well, the people I’d be targeting will know nothing about computers, thats why they need

Always interesting to see new techniques for layout.

With faux absolute positioning, we can align every item to a predefined position on the grid (as with absolute positioning) but items still affect the normal flow and—thanks

It blows my mind that phpBB doesn’t come with RSS feeds for forums. The new v3 is incredibly nice in so many other ways, it seems like it would have been a trivial addition for such a talented dev team. …

This post was co-authored by Chris Coyier and Tim Wright of CSSKarma

A traditional calendar is a grid of numbered boxes on a page. As a web designer, you might go right for a table, and I wouldn’t fault you …

Abstraction is an important concept in any language. You can think of CSS as a way of abstracting the design away from the content of a site. This makes the code for both much easier to read, understand and maintain. …

Worried about putting your email address right out in the open for all the world’s spam bots to see? Enkoder will obscure it through javascript, yet be a perfectly useable link for everyone else. I tried to include mine …

Well I’m not sure if it’s a SECRET, but it’s certainly neat and I don’t think they publicize it.

Basically it’s a URL you can hit which will create a perfect sprite-ready PNG graphic of the text you include in …

A page element with relative positioning gives you the control to absolutely position children elements inside of it.

To some, this is obvious. To others, this may be one of those CSS “Ah-ha!” Moments. I remember it being a …

Paul Smith posted about a weird CSS problem he noticed, disappearing background graphics. To quickly summarize, sometimes a DIV which is defaulting to the full width of the browser window, which also has a background image, …