A while back I showed you how to create a Body Border with CSS. Basically, we used four fixed position DIV’s to ensure all edges of the screen got a border and that the border would sit on top of …
I would think designers would be better at this than most folks. You can test your color IQ by arranging blocks of color into hue order. There are 20 blocks per row and the hue change …
In the next week or so we are launching refreshed site for one of our clients at Chatman Design. The client is Beacon Athletics, a company that sells equipment for athletic fields. The homepage is of course of particular importance. …
All microformats are are standardized ID and Class names to wrap data in. Really. That’s it.
Say you are having a birthday party next week and you are posting about it on the web. That event has a name (Birthday …
I have to admit I don’t have my head fully wrapped around this whole font-embedding controversy. At it’s root, it comes from us web designers being frustrated by the lack of options font options for our web pages. We want …
IE 8 will have a number of proprietary CSS attributes. Not a big surprise, all the major browsers have them. It’s a way to have support for a) stuff that is truly proprietary to …
I get a fair number of questions about how I record the screencasts, so I thought I’d do a post on it that is both of interest now and that I can refer people to later. …
Yesterday I “upgraded” the forums from phpBB 3.0.0 to 3.0.2. It was a bit of a debacle, probably mostly my fault, and it was down for a lot of the day. It’s back up and running now though! Apparently it …
Firefox has a number of core CSS files that it uses to render web pages. Most of them are filled with sensible default values for all those pages out there which don’t provide their own styling. For example, Firefox has …
When I was doing that video on Google Search I thought to myself wouldn’t it be cool to make a search engine that only searched through design/development sites? I talked myself out of it, because I started …
Errol writes in:
…What’s your thoughts on a situation where you’ve started
naming classes and then halfway through you realize that
you need the same class but the naming isn’t semantic.Do you create a duplicate class, rename the existing