Category Archives: css
2010 Winter Olympics on NBC – Fail
what a mess. NPR shares our frustration. And I quote, since I live in LA, “West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever “live” coverage there actually is in prime time, even though they are in the time zone where the Olympics actually are. What [...]
Value of Front End Developers & the Web
Paul Carvill, a uk based web developer, interaction designer, user experience expert and information architect has a nice post on his blog about the role and value of the front-end developer: http://www.paulcarvill.com/2009/09/why-front-end-developers-are-so-important-to-the-future-of-businesses-on-the-web/
Why Apple Supports HTML 5 (Sorry Adobe/Flash)
Interesting article over at apple insider on standards, apple, and html 5. While the standard isn’t yet finished, Apple is already using HTML 5 as an important component in the company’s strategies, ranging from the iPod touch and iPhone’s mobile browser to Safari on the Mac and PC, from Dashboard widgets to new iTunes LP [...]
Why CSS should not be used for layout
According to Ron Garret, “CSS is really cool. It is useful for a lot of things. The basic idea of separating content from presentation is sound. But when it comes to layout, the design of CSS is fundamentally flawed. Use tables instead.” I have to say that I agree with Ron. He goes on to [...]
How to Style an Application Like Facebook
Nice article by Bill Konrad over at socialsnippets.com that covers the default facebook css styling: http://www.socialsnippets.com/snippets/how-to-style-an-application-like-facebook.aspx “…explore how we can style our Facebook application to look and feel like an extension of the Facebook platform. We will examine colors, fonts, dimensions and a few common design patterns utlized by the Facebook platform in our quest [...]
The Grid System
Great resource here: http://www.thegridsystem.org/ Remember to break it so it retains it power. Here is a preachy little quote from the site, “The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how [...]
Yahoo’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
Nicely written and useful: Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 7 categories. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
Malo CSS
I am not sold on this framework – but it is awfully small. I give them that. Malo is ultra small css library for building web sites. It is meant to be structural base for small or medium web sites.Malo derives from it’s bigger brother Emastic CSS Framework. Why should you use Malo? Because it’s: Ultra [...]
YUI Library 3
Yahoo has released a pr1 of their revised YUI Library. The YUI team is pleased to announce YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1. This preview is an early look at what we’re working on for the next generation of YUI Library. Pleasereview the API, play with the examples, and read the documentation on this site for details; download [...]
Mootools Mocha UI
I LOVE Mootools and here is another reason why - Mocha : “Mocha is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework. The Mocha GUI components are made with canvas tag graphics.”