Posts tagged “web design”
Primes and Quotes
More good stuff from A List Apart: The Trouble With EM ‘n EN. My reading list ( and things to fix on my site) runneth over.
Relative Widths and CSS
“I’d love a proportional-width relative-positioning design for my weblog, but I’m too afraid of cross-browser compatability issues. I don’t want to spend more than a weekend figuring out how to get two columns to work in three browsers.” – Dan Sanderson I have to agree with Dan’s sentiment here. It’s a bear to get relative
DOCTYPE Explained
Finally! The latest issue of A List Apart includes a lesson on Fixing Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE. This is terrific and I’m going to fix my pages as soon as I can. ALA saves the day (again!).
ScriptyGoddess
Scriptygoddess is another site dedicated to showing / teaching tips and tricks about MovableType. There are some really good ones there. Check ’em out!
MovableType Tips
I’m honored to see that this little page and its MovableType category section have been included in the MovableBlog Resources area. The MovableBlog is a blog all about cool tips and tricks for maintaining your MovableType blog. Great idea!
Site Design
If you’re interested in the recent changes I’ve made to the design of this place, I’ve posted a few thoughts on the Works in Progress blog detailing the why and whatfor.
Site Design
I just thought I’d post a few notes about the minor design changes I’ve made here recently. You may have noticed the addition of mini-icons below each post. These link to what I call the “blogdata” items of each entry. They can be used for permalinking, Google-searching, commenting, and sending a link to the entry.
Movable Type Modifications
Two Tricks from the MT Support Forum: How to Randomly Generate Entries How to Create a Printer-Friendly Template Of course if you are using CSS to its fullest, you can create printer-friendly pages by simply changing stylesheets. There is a tutorial at Evolt that explains how.
High-Pass Filter
Write better web pages, free design from content, and resolve CSS browser-compatibility issues with Tantek’s High Pass Filter!
Menu Rollovers in CSS
Brian Costner has compiled the best guide to designing menus using CSS Rollovers that exists to date. Check there for everything you need to know about creating a cross-browser-compliant css rollover menu.