That’s what my good friend, Dan Mendelsohn, had to say to me yesterday. And Dan is right, my last post was September 30… that’s nearly, what, 4-5 months in Internet-time? Well, my lag has been (I think) well-justified… We at … Continue reading
Category Archives: web design
Today’s Readings
Stumbled across a new developer tool, http://cssprism.com/, that grabs and displays all the colors from a single CSS file into an editable color palette. When I first loaded the CSS file for this site, I have to say I was … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Once again, Apple has very simply made a product that is exactly as it should be: http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/accessibility.html#video A really, really good tutorial for HTML5, using a blog as a working example. Qué apropo, no? http://edward.oconnor.cx/2009/09/using-the-html5-sectioning-elements and it would seem that … Continue reading
Develop websites with @font-face!
So, @font-face has been around forever, right? And it is never going to catch on, right? We’re going to have to cut graphic headers for any good-looking font for the rest of our careers, right? Bah, I say! How do … Continue reading
Use FREE fonts and @font-face to develop your website
[Editors note: Check-out my other post for @font-face development details.] For YEARS we’ve been wanting to use @font-face to give us more than the, what, 6-7? web-safe fonts that we can comfortably use cross-browser… And while many prefer to bash … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Is everyone ready for yet another browser? Well, at least this one is backed by Marc Andreessen, so, who knows, it might just be good! The latest from Mr. Resig (jQuery author), pretty cool graphically, but really only useful (I … Continue reading
Very Cool, Inspiring, Innovative Designs
http://www.inspiredm.com/2009/08/21/webdesign-trend-hunting-27-bright-websites-using-popping-colors/ http://abduzeedo.com/sites-week-65 http://designreviver.com/inspiration/25-creative-website-footers/ http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/colourful (check-out all the categories in the right column!) Happy designing, Atg Top⇪
Notes from Jesse James Garrett Talk
Had the pleasure of attending a very intimate presentation and discussion with Jesse James Garret and Tamara Wayland of span class=”vcard”>Adaptive Path, so I thought I’d share a few notes I took… I like that part of AP’s mission statement … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Most of us probably have a template we use to start new HTML docs, but I thought Accesssify‘s MarkupMaker was a clever idea, and quite well implemented! * The anal-retentive in me couldn’t pass-up suggesting he add rel=”stylesheet” to the … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Anyone with a few extra days on their hands… http://bestwebdesignschools.com/2009/usabilityedu-25-incredibly-useful-usability-cheat-sheets-checklists/ Alex: Did you write this one?? http://bestwebdesignschools.com/2009/25-essential-freeware-apps-for-web-designers/ Josh: This one’s for you! http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-check-out-all-the-cool-new-stuff-the-new-york-times-is-working-on-to-save-itself-2009-5 A brief, painful, but useful lesson in life: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2009/05/15/less-is-more/ Happy reading, Atg Top⇪