Archived posts, February 2004
The Page Paradigm
Users don’t care where they are in the website.
The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you!
What web standards are and why you should use them.
CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners & Borders Part II
CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners & Borders Part II
CSS Drop Shadows
A tutorial that explains how to create flexible dropshadows that can be applied to any block element.
Simple clean CSS rollover menus with lists
A whole bunch of examples of how a list of links can be styled with CSS.
SimpleQuiz › Part XIII : Empholdics
How would you mark up emphasis, bold, and italics all at once?
Minimizing Flickering CSS Background Images in IE6
Ryan Carver explains how to avoid flicker in IE.
CSS Buttons
Sophie Gousset describes a way of using CSS to create buttons.
Accessible Web Typography
An e-book about accessible typography on the web.
A tutorial on character code issues
A very thorough explanation of how character encoding works.
CSS and Wired.com
Doug Bowman and Aaron Jones talk to Macromedia about the Wired News redesign.
Side-stepping IE
Dave Shea lists some of the biggest deficiencies of Internet Explorer for Windows.
Page Length and Anchor Links – Your Take
At Asterisk*
Site update: Quicklinks
I’ve added a section called “Quicklinks” to the sidebar. I needed somewhere to post interesting links together with just a…
Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop On Line
AskTog, January 2004. Ten examples of bad usability in online shopping.
Web Standards Awards
Seeking out and highlighting the finest standards-compliant sites on the Internet.
usabilitygarage.com
Information on usability and UI design.
CSS Depot
A collection of CSS layout templates.
SimpleQuiz › Part XII: Breadcrumbs
Which is the best method for marking up a breadcrumb trail of links?
Integrated Web Design: CSS Beyond the Retrofit
There are two great articles by Molly Holzschlag at InformIT. Integrated Web Design: CSS Beyond the Retrofit explains why structure…
Obsessed by footers
When hack-and-slash table designers meet web standards, one of the first things they will complain about (and loudly, too) is…
Knowing too much
Ever since the dot-com bust I’ve noticed a greater risk of something that used to be a fun challenge and…
Back from nowhere
I’m sort of back from a much needed break, but it will be another couple of weeks before I resume…
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