Posted in CSS on Sep 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Honestly, at least 60% of being good at web design is sheet amount of experience. I’ve been working on a way to resolve resizing issues with the new library homepage (get smaller than a certain size and an image covers up text). Part of the solution involved setting a min-width. But since IE doesn’t understand [...]
Posted in CSS on Jan 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
I wasn’t picking on any specific project or vendor in my previous post. I just have noticed that people don’t go to remove the tables where they are easy to remove. For example, a simple two column layout is relatively easy to do using CSS. Also, I’ve noticed that tables get used a lot for [...]
Posted in CSS on Apr 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
I spent part of today writing print stylesheets for our Movable Type weblogs and my own personal blog. One thing I think is crucial with print stylesheets is that less is more. This means a couple of things when you are trying to optimize the page for print. First, that stylesheet you have been using [...]
Posted in CSS on Sep 28th, 2005 No Comments »
There is a great article over at A List Apart which discusses multi-column layout support that is being built into CSS3 by the W3C. The proposed new CSS properties are:
‘column-count’, to determine the number of columns into which the content of the element will flow.
‘column-width’, to describe the optimal width of each column.
‘column-gap’, to [...]
Posted in CSS, General Thoughts on May 23rd, 2005 2 Comments »
The Librarian Way has a great post which lists a bunch of CSS resources and tutorials. W3Schools which is listed is a great resources for web design tutorial in general. They have materials on XHTML, CSS, ASP, XML, PHP and lots of other things a web designer might want to learn about. I’ve been [...]
Posted in CSS on Feb 21st, 2005 No Comments »
CSS Just Keeps Getting Better
I was looking at the CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Module
on the W3C's website today and all I have to say is “Wow! CSS Just
keeps getting better.” The new module includes some really nifty stuff
include the ability to round the corners of borders. Graphic
design-oriented web developers have been wanting this for a [...]
Posted in CSS on Sep 8th, 2004 No Comments »
There is a fabulous , article
on CSS trick over at Evolt.org There are three tricks described here
that were new to me. My favorite was getting things to align vertically
using CSS. This was something that was easy with table-driven layout
but I hadn't figured out how to do using CSS. Another good quick tip is
that you can [...]
Posted in CSS, General Thoughts on Sep 1st, 2004 No Comments »
Absolute and relative positioning
There is a great article at http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd0904news.htm#feature
which discusses the positioning (relative and absolute) in CSS. The
author suggests that absolute and relative positioning can be used in
conjunction to create very flexible and interesting layouts.
Typically I use relative positioning in my layouts because this
makes the design more flexible for different browsers, screen
resolutions, and monitor [...]
Posted in CSS, Usability on Jul 24th, 2004 No Comments »
Print Stylesheets and User Expectations
There is a great post over at Man in Blue about how the behavior created by print stylesheets confound users. The basic idea is that user expect when they print to get the what they are seeing on the screen and when they don't they are puzzled. So there are suggestions [...]
Posted in CSS on Jul 2nd, 2004 No Comments »
Setting Width using CSS
A collegue of mine is working on a redesign of our library's website and we were talking today about setting the width of an element. One classic problem that occurs when you layout a page in columns using CSS and relative measures is that your columns can be really squished if your [...]
