via smashingmagazine we have 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To, and they are
Lazy Registration;
Progressive Disclosure;
Forgiving Format;
Clear Primary Actions;
Breadcrumbs;
Account Registration;
Required Field Marker;
Steps Left;
Subscription plans;
Hover Controls;
Every web designer and [...]
via the flickr page of schoschie comes the interesting discovery that Google is using a CSS sprite on it’s Google search pages :
I had left styles disabled by accident (from the Develop menu in Safari 4) and was surprised to see that Google apparently uses CSS sprites on its search page.
So, what are these “elf’s” [...]
Divs instead of tables – to paraphrase : “Use the div, Luke.”
or, if you do have a list of some kind, then maybe you should be using <ol>/<ul> and <li>’s rather than all the div’s? see A CSS layout that does not rely on DIV, FLOAT, CLEAR nor structural HACK! for more
ModalBox a (Web 2.0-style) [...]
Dilbert.com >> I’m Incubating my brain out…
- and it hurts
- Startup Humour
CSS Floats Without Text Wrap – Understanding floats is extremely important when creating CSS layouts. One of the trickiest issues when dealing with floats is stopping text from wrapping underneath a floated element.
- css webdesign
The best free web development add-ons for IE 6 [...]
Over on IBM Developer Works is an article on Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla. Lots of useful information, evey if its too late for me….
Is Mozilla / FireFox important? Should you care Yes.
Given FireFox’s increasing market share amongst the average user ( ~ 9% and much much high in the pointed head [...]
From theSXSW2005 Interactive conference : How to bluff your way in CSS by Andy Budd & Jeremy Keith. A good Intro to Cascading Style Sheets, the What, Why, When and How.
More under the Category:SXSW as I discover them.
Via A List Apart, a very nice and practical example of using CSS to get that 2 or 3 columns look (Look Ma, no Tables!) which is so very suitable for most Content web sites (Blog or regular marketing content site), and 99% of the rest of them too.
So well explained even I [...]
A New A List Apart, Elastic Design:
Elasticising a layout so that its size will change when a user explicitly opts to change text size may seem unnecessary and even unwanted, but if you have text that can be expanded and contracted, it can make sense for the layout in which it is contained to expand [...]
What is Fahrner Image Replacement technique, and why you should care
Russell Beattie talks about the huge increase in power behind the combination of XHTML+CSS (I agree), with links to an article In Defense of Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR is a CSS-based background image replacement technique, i didn’t know that either!) by Vancouver’s Dave Shea [...]
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The best way to do buttons! No graphic guys need apply for simple (and not so simple) buttons Link
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