Category Archives: Design

Design

Internet Explorer 8: Progress!

3/6/2008 – 10:35 am

It seems that Microsoft has reversed their previous decision to make Internet Explorer 8 crippled by default. They will be enabling the standards compliant mode by default in IE8, and webmasters will have to use the X-UA-Compatible header to force it into IE7 mode, for sites that can’t be updated immediately. [...]

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Internet Explorer 8: This is progress?

1/23/2008 – 9:25 am

Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test. Huzzah!

But waitaminnit… What’s this stuff about forward compatibility by adding some new X-UA-Compatible header to my pages or my server? Am I reading this right? Are you telling me that in order for IE8 to use its fully compliant rendering, we have to add something new to our pages? And that if we don’t, it will fall back to rendering pages just like IE7? Is that what this means?

That’s just dumb.

Screw their stupid “don’t break the web” motto. [...]

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Sandbox Design Competition Winners

8/7/2007 – 10:43 am

The Sandbox Designs Competition is over, and the results are in. The overall winner was the Sandpress theme. That theme was one of my favorites. [...]

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14+ Awesome WordPress-powered sites

7/16/2007 – 10:54 am
[A screenshot of welovewp.com]

WeLoveWP.com highlights great looking WordPress sites, and it’s powered by WordPress, too!

From time to time, someone will hear that I’m involved with WordPress, and ask me a few questions about it. [...]

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Sandbox Designs Competition: deadline approaching

7/9/2007 – 3:25 pm

I’ve mentioned the Sandbox theme for WordPress a couple of times before, but I’ve neglected to point out the Sandbox Designs Competition that is going on right now. [...]

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Typography design patterns for the web

7/5/2007 – 12:01 pm

When I’m putting a new web site together, one thing that sometimes bugs me is choosing which fonts to use. I’ll typically throw together a list of fonts that I like, decide to use this set of serif fonts for these page elements, and that set of sans-serif fonts for those other elements, select some fallback choices for my stylesheet, and let it go at that. [...]

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Digital Diva

4/25/2006 – 10:14 pm

It’s been a long time coming, but my wife, Susan, finally has a WordPress blog. You can check it out at DigitalDivas.net. As you’ll see when you get there, It’s Pink! Susan spent a lot of time adapting some CSS techniques for her site, and I helped her turn her html code into a WP theme.

I’m sure she’ll be posting on a variety of topics, from web design and technology, to current events, to family matters. [...]

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CSS: The One True Layout

10/27/2005 – 5:21 pm

I had recently been using Alex Robinson’s 3-column CSS technique called “ordered columns, float-margin/float-margin” for some website designs. [...]

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IE7 and the demise of CSS hacks

10/13/2005 – 12:53 pm

As mentioned previously here and elsewhere, Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 7, which will have greatly improved CSS support. [...]

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design.Principles redesigns

9/15/2005 – 2:25 pm

design.Principles is sporting a new look. The front page has a three-column layout, while individual articles are two-column. The category and archive listings are nice and compact, and there’s an easy-to-spot “Subscribe” link in the corner of the header. [...]

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