Posts in the category “Web Design”
Google Search Blog Entries
Yes, I redesigned again. This time I had a good reason though, I promise. Mostly I *really* wanted to make the site validate. It does now. (That means that it’s all standards-compliant code, mom!) And I wanted the CSS to validate, too, so that prompted a new color scheme. Then I found a link at
Valid
It took some work, but I think that this page and all the individual entries now validate with the w3c for css and html 4.01 (transitional). w00t!
Slash Forward
If you have anything at all to do with creating web pages, you should read the article Slash Forward, which includes a quick overview of Your Friend, The Trailing Slash.
FavIcon
The Dastardly “favicon.ico not found” Error There have been two burning questions among developers recently: “What is that favicon.ico not found error that is filling my Error_log?” and “How do I get a custom icon next to my bookmark link in Internet Explorer?” These may sound like unrelated questions, yet both can be answered at
Graphics
If you’re searching for animated graphics for some reason, check out Kimberly’s Kreations. She has a boatload of them. I think that this spatula-flipping-a-hamburger is particularly menacing. Does it frighten you? The Google image search feature is also very handy. I just discovered it today. What an incredibly useful resource! I didn’t know you could
WebGraphics
Webgraphics rocks. The tagline is, “a daily compilation of hypertext design resources, links, commentary and notes.” This is one of those sites that I’m going to have to read top-to-bottom; it’s full of great information and design tricks.
CSS Resource
A ton of terrific type on Cascading Style Sheets at the Web Developer’s Virtual Library: Style Sheets allow you to control the rendering, e.g. fonts, colors, leading, margins, typefaces, and other aspects of style, of a Web document without compromising its structure. CSS is a simple style sheet mechanism that allows authors and readers to
Forum
Cyber-Gish – not to be confused with Normal-Jish – has created a Forum for discussing blogging shtuff. You might want to pop over there and say hi.
HTML Reference
The HTML 4.0 Entities™ reference page is very handy. You† can® do° all¶ kindsº of£ nifty€ thingsŸ withÖ it¿.
Google Rules
10 things Google has found to be true Focus on the user and all else will follow. It’s best to do one thing really, really well. Fast is better than slow. Democracy on the web works. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer. You can make money without doing evil.