Archives for May, 2006
Dave Shea Wants You To Stop Using CSS Hacks
Dave Shea from Mezzoblue wrote a nice article over on Vitamin titled “Stop Hacking, or Be Stopped.” It does a nice job of encapsulating the arguments against using CSS hacks to target IE, since IE7 will break most of these hacks. Instead, Shea recommends the same thing Microsoft recommends: conditional comments. Personally, I resisted these for [...]
Widescreen Part III
When Phu Ly from If..Else redesigned, he joined in the growing trend of designers who are reworking their sites to work for different screen resolutions. His site is designed to have three different layouts, under different resolutions.
I Work With A Bunch Of Smart-Asses II
Dave: I can’t get any email. Ryan: [sarcastic]It’s probably because you’re using a mac. Andrew: [singing, falsetto] You know it’s hard out here for a mac…
April Accomplishments
Training I continued my ASP.NET 2.0 training, and have gotten through five chapters in my book, the most recent about theming. Based on this, I gave a presentation to the office titled .NET 101, which just gave a brief overview of what .NET is and isn’t, and an really short demo of how to use Visual [...]
Design Is More Than Making Things Pretty
Following on the heels of some heated discussions around the office on usability and design, I found a great post by Jeff Croft, talking about what web design is.
Controversy Over Ugly Design Continues
The uproar that I wrote about in the web design community over the “ugly” design theory that Scoble wrote about is still going strong, and two of the biggest names in the field have added their pleas for sanity. First of all, Jason Santa Maria chimes in: Design encompasses much more than you think. If you are [...]
Comments Everywhere!
There’s a decent post over at Brown Battery Studios about using comments in your CSS code. Some are good ideas (table of contents, color labels) and some I think are cheesy (the easy switch), but the underlying point of the article – that we need to be putting more labels in our code is very [...]
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Comments are off. Posted on May 15, 2006. Filed under Uncategorized, comments, CSS, standards.
By Scott Vandehey, Front-End Web Developer