This is a direct link to a PowerPoint file by Steve Souders (in April 2009). Of particular interest is pages 19-33 with all the information on CSS selectors. Evidence points to yes, there are efficiency differences in how you write …
From the desk of important beginner concepts:
You have a website with 100 pages on it. All 100 pages use the same style.css file. You’d like to change the background color of every single page. You make one adjustment in …
One of the new types of inputs in HTML5 is search.
<input type=search name=s/>It does absolutely nothing in most browsers. It just behaves like a text input. This isn’t a problem. The spec doesn’t require it to do …
Chrome users and CSS wranglers, check this out. It’s an extension which adds a “css” link on the right in your URL bar. Click it to open a CSS Edit-like pane on any website where you can click elements and …
This idea is from Veer.com and how they handle the dropdowns for things like T-Shirt sizes. Thank you to Dennis Sa.
We’ll wrap a regular text input inside an <div, which also contains an unordered …
The Oscars of web nerdery. I’m nominated for a flatteringly high number of categories! Web personality of the year? You know it.…
Right before the closing of the The Loop, insert this code:
<?php
if (($wp_query->current_post + 1) < ($wp_query->post_count)) {
echo '<div class="post-item-divider">Post Divider</div>';
}
?>This will create a <div> you can style as a post divider. The cool part …
Have you ever tried to debug a site where a beginner web designer has loaded the page with scripts? There’s a couple copies of jQuery in various versions, maybe a little Prototype or MooTools thrown in. We can laugh a …
This is a very cool extension for Firebug (add-on for an add-on?) that expands Firebug’s capabilities with jQuery. For instance, a built in jQueryify button, showing attached event handlers in the Content / DOM tree view, and highlighting all elements …
Here’s some food for thought.
When designing something that you are reasonably certain the user is willing (or forced) to invest time in learning to use proficiently, is it beneficial to intentionally make some tasks just slightly more difficult than …
