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Has anyone seen this problem before and have any idea how to solve it? In firefox, the text wraps around both floats correctly. In IE6/7, the text only wraps around the second float. Read More...

In 1998, Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project to fight for better support of web standards from the browser manufacturers and web developers. It was a success, if for no other reason than it provided a flag to rally behind. This year, the Email Standards Project was founded to rally support for web standards in email clients. The Email Standards Project is about working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email... Read More...

Pop Art is currently hiring for several positions , including an account director , a .NET web developer , and most important to me, a front-end web developer . If you're interested in any of those positions, feel free to apply. Now, allow me to wax poetic about the front-end developer position for a moment. If you've read my manifesto of a web producer , then you know that I feel that production work is a separate specialization from design and programming. Here at Pop Art, I've been... Read More...

"You’ll sometimes hear people joke that good programmers are 'lazy', and what this means is simply that good programmers tend to see duplicated work as a bug, and try to fix it." -- James Bennett, discussing CSS frameworks Read More...

I was clearing out my bookmarks recently, and noticed that I had a pretty large collection of web development and CSS-related bookmarks that I never refer to any more, but might be useful to people who are just getting started with CSS. So with that in mind, here’s a collection of links, and I hope it helps you out! Browser Testing You’ll probably be spending a lot of time testing your designs in different browsers. The old-school way to do this is to physically install every browser you might have... Read More...

I recently had a fascinating conversation with our VP of Client Services. Long story short, I learned that selling web standards is difficult, because many of the benefits it offers are “soft.” For instance, if we tell a client that the extra money we charged them to upgrade their site to web standards will make future updates easier, the Client Services team is afraid the client will come back and say that we should charge them less for updates. For a standards zealot like myself, this... Read More...

Wanna get a headache? Go type “ html book titles italic em ” into Google and read for about 15 minutes. What you’re looking at is an intense debate over the best way to mark up a book title using HTML. I’ll save you some time and tell you that after several hours, my conclusion is that you should use the <cite> element for book titles. If that’s all you need, then feel free to save yourself the trouble of reading the rest of this, but if you’re curious about... Read More...

Last year, I attended An Event Apart 2006 in Seattle . It was a great event, although I remember it being really rushed, because they seven sessions packed into one day. So when I heard that they were coming back to Seattle, and had changed the format to two days, I signed up right away. I’m happy to tell you that the new format is a huge improvement. The event no longer feels rushed, and even though there are six sessions every day, there’s a 15 minute break between each one, and a 1½... Read More...

Pop Art has launched two sites that we’re really excited about, Visit Cascadia and Drive Cascadia to promote the launch of a groundbreaking new truck, the Freightliner Cascadia™. Visit Cascadia Visit Cascadia is a tourism site for a fictional town called Cascadia. Imagine the perfect trucktopia that inspired by the features and benefits of their official truck, the Freightliner Cascadia™. In Cascadia, you can drive on North America’s smoothest pavement, go swimming in the world’s largest cupholder... Read More...

What started as a simple project with LP to redesign their top-level landing pages quickly grew to encompass their entire site . This brought with it some surprising logistical difficulties, which the Pop Art team overcame through clever use of web standards. The end result is a new look applied across the entire site, with the increased accessibility and search-engine optimization that comes from a web standards solution. Objects in Rear-View Mirror may be Larger than they Appear. When our programmer... Read More...