When it comes to centering things in web design, the more information you have about the element being centered and its parent element, the easier it is. So what if you don’t know anything? It’s still kinda doable.
There is just too many awesome Lorem Ipsum (placeholder) text generators going around lately not to round them up.
Paul probably doesn’t need an introduction around here.
Last week I proposed a little design challenge: design a small part of an interface which allowed a user to rate three candy bars in order of how much they liked them. Quite a few folks took a stab at it. I’d like to round up what I feel were the best entries for discussion and then pick the “winners”
There is an awful lot we don’t know about a user visiting our website. For example, almost everything. And we know less and less every day as the web gets bigger and its users more diverse. Let’s accommodate those unknowns.
In which I show and explain the very basics of what "responsive web design" has come to mean. Then I go all over the place and show examples, related resources, relevant people, tips and tricks, and more.
Impressed by the CSS animations on the Apple 4S sales page? I am. John B. Hall makes it clear by showing a miniaturized version where we can see all the off-screen elements.
The content of HTML5 for Web Designers, the first A Book Apart book by Jeremy Keith, is online. Under the hood, the title bar at the top of the page is actually the <title> element, unhidden and styled up.
A bunch of crazy awesome affects you can apply via CSS through the filter property: blur, drop-shadow, gamma, grayscale, hue-rotate, invert, opacity, saturate, sepia, and sharpen. Adobe has been doing some great stuff with CSS lately. Their last amazing demo isn't just a demo anymore, it will be implemented in IE 10. Let's hope these make it into the spec and implemented as well.
