Category Archives: web development

jQuery Performance Rules, per Dave Artz

The man, the myth, the legend, Dave Artz, lends his expertise to fine-tuning jQuery. I can’t tell you how much this changed my way of coding… Read, memorize, apply, repeat. Thanks to Ron Harris for sharing this! Happy coding, Atg … Continue reading

The Best Firefox Add-ons (or at least a list of my favorites…)

Nearly any Firefox (FF) user knows that you can “add-on” stuff that doesn’t come innately with a FF download and install.  If you don’t, you should; try going here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Now, on my first encounter with this page, I looked … Continue reading

How to Code HTML Newsletter Emails

Never fun, always a pain, and something that just won’t go away… Clients always want Newsletters that they can send via email.  They want their brand correctly represented.  And they want it to look good in “everybody’s email”…  Ugh… In … 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⇪

Font matrix

Assuming you’re not using @font-face to get your fave font into your pages, you might find this font matrix helpful. I really only find the first few columns useful, those being the Mac OS and Windows columns, but maybe you’ll … Continue reading

CSS Debugging Tips

So who doesn’t use border:1px solid red (or some similar expression) for debugging CSS? From Eric Meyer comes these very slick CSS debugging tips! Way cool!! Atg Top⇪

5 Rarely-Used CSS Properties

Craig Buckler writes a nice, quick article for SitePoint listing five (somewhat) rarely used CSS properties. I was pretty familiar with the first three, but the last two are pretty interesting… Happy CSSing, Atg Top⇪

New Font Replacement Technique v.2

A short while ago I wrote about a new font replacement technique, Cufón. In short: Cufón is an alternative to sIFR, which relies on both Flash AND JavaScript to work, but dutifully embeds the font into the SWF, so there … Continue reading

Use a Favicon to “Finish” Your Websites

We’ve all seen them, but we may not know what they’re called: those tiny little graphics that appear to the left of the URLs in our browser location bars, or appear to the left of our Bookmark titles when we … Continue reading

Obscure Safari 3.x Rendering Bug

This was brought to my attention by a colleague, Stephen Tang, so I’ll let him tell the story: I found an obscure rendering bug in Safari 3 when whitespace or a line-break appears in the inline box with side padding … Continue reading