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
Category Archives: web development
Centered Horizontal Tabs with Just CSS
Yes, it’s an old article, but one I think well-worth revisiting! http://24ways.org/2005/centered-tabs-with-css How do you center a UL, when you would normally float your LIs? Well, Ethan Marcotte has written an article for 24 Ways that covers the basics and … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
From the man himself, Mr. Jeremy Keith, comes a pretty cool collection of links and things… http://adactio.com/journal/1582 I’m not sure I fully understand this, neither how it works nor what one would use it for, but, hey, it’s a mash-up, … Continue reading
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⇪