Archives for November, 2006
CSS Mastery: One Paragraph Review
In the introduction to this book, Andy Budd writes “There are an increasing number of CSS resources around, yet you only have to look at a CSS mailing list to see the same questions popping up time and again.” In that sentence, he’s neatly summarized this book. The material contained here is certainly available elsewhere, [...]
Web Standards Solutions: One Paragraph Review
Dan Cedarholm has written a very nice book introducing the reader to the concept of web standards. Unlike Zeldman’s book, which is nearly all theory, this book is heavily focused on markup techniques, with some basic introduction to CSS. Each chapter presents a variety of scenarios, such as how to mark up a grocery list. [...]
Designing with Web Standards: One Paragraph Review
If you want to be a successful musician, you don’t just pick up an instrument and learn to play, you also study music theory. Similarly, if you want to be a successful web designer, you need to learn theory as well as code. Where most books cover code and technique, this book is the definitive [...]
How to Make VirtualPC and Synergy Get Along
Recently, I installed VirtualPC on my XP box so that I could still test IE6 after installing IE7. However, I immediately ran into a problem. There is some sort of conflict between the mouse emulation being done in the VirtualPC window, and the mouse emulation being done on my PC to let me use my [...]
Eric Meyer on CSS: One Paragraph Review
Eric Meyer, known in the web community as the Godfather of CSS, has written several more technical books about CSS for O’Reilly, but this book, as well as its sequel, are intended as a more practical, hands-on set of tutorials. In both books, he presents a series of common scenarios such as adding a calendar [...]
How to Use a Mac and a PC with a Single Keyboard and Mouse
As a web developer who prefers to use a Macintosh, I struggled to find the least painful way to test my work on a PC. Dual-booting was a possibility, but having to reboot every time I want to check IE was a pain. A KVM Switch was a little better, but it was still inconvenient, [...]
October Accomplishments
SelecTrucks We're nearing the end of the SelecTrucks project, and only launched one site this month: Tampa. I really like the water in the design, with the little diver swimming through. Carrier We did some small projects for Carrier this month, mostly SEM tweaks. The cool part is that we added a media center, which will be going [...]
