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Type on the Web – An Evolutionary Shift

November 17, 2009

For designers and anyone interested in typography on the Web, I highly recommend you check out Web Font Specimen and the A List Apart article “Real Web Type in Real Web Context” that explains it. As we near a point where real typographic controls and options are available to us, its pivotal time for [...]

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Reset Your Style

January 15, 2008

Eric Meyer has updated his reset style sheet, outlining the reasons for his change in the post Resetting Again. The modifications, while small, are logical and affirm how important the Reset sheet has become to Web professionals and amateurs alike. As Eric notes “this is more than just a throwaway development tool. It really [...]

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Style Evolution – Dynamic CSS Part 2

May 14, 2007

Please note that this assumes you have read Part One of the series.
Also, I have taken to calling this Evolved CSS, as the word “dynamic” is a bit too close to the old days of DHTML (Dynamic HTML) for my liking. Let’s jump right in shall we?
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Dynamic CSS A.K.A. CSS Variables

March 22, 2007

Cascading Style Sheets are an amazing tool, having transformed Web Design as an industry and the Web as a communications medium. But in all of its glory (and it is glorious), CSS has some flaws. The most frustrating for me is its static nature. I want to be able to reuse values (CSS variables if [...]

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Firebug Beta 1 Released

December 5, 2006

The beta of Firebug 1.0 has been released and comes with some amazingly useful features. For those unfamiliar with this Firefox extension, Firebug provides a wealth of tools for developers to debug, monitor or edit portions of a site. Portions of it overlap the Web Developer’s toolbar, and in several cases, Firebug surpasses it hands [...]

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Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS

September 21, 2006

Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS provides “a way to add pullquotes without having to duplicate text in the markup“.

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Raising the CSS B.R.A.T.

July 17, 2006

CSS B.R.A.T. is a great idea, but one that should be seriously thought about before implemented. For those Web folks responsible for supporting intranets, having to wrangle many editors, this is a great tool, but it should be avoided for anything that faces the public. The implementation could inflict much more harm on the presentation [...]

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Veerle’s CSS List

June 27, 2006

Veerle provides an amazing list of CSS resources. Link found via the ever-useful SimpleBits.

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Eliminating the IE duplication bug

May 30, 2006

This site demonstrates a few ways to eliminate the duplicate characters bug, which is one of the most annoying issues in IE 6. The bug causes the last character(s) within a float to appear twice, the second instance being outside the float itself. This issue has stolen many hours of my life and caused more [...]

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max-width in Internet Explorer

May 15, 2006

max-width in Internet Explorer

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