It seems as if clear is a popular topic this week. First me, then Hyatt, and now Meyer. Check out his article for some very useful information about clear and how it works.
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twoeye.org: Why Your Site Needs a Favicon
Tony at twoeyes talks about the ways that favicons can improve the usability of tabs. It's a good point, and one that is more and more relevant as the different uses of tabs get less buggy. For instance favicons sometimes get used for the wrong sites in bookmark listing (probably because they're all named favicon.ico). In any case, it's a good point. I've wanted one for my site for a while, just haven't gotten around to putting it together.
I've been checking out this site for about a week now. Some of the designs are nice, some not so nice. However, it seems that the only things there so far are designs. It would be cool if they had other types of information. For example, select lists of zip codes, states, and countries comes to mind (for easy form building). No matter what though, it's a site to keep an eye on because the idea is good and it seems like there's a community forming to support it.
A new tool by Eric Meyer, Color Blender. Pick two colors, give the number of mid points you want, and out pops a gradient chart. Amazing. I can barely get a simple "hello world" out of javascript most days.
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report
This will probably be the biggest blogdex link in about five more hours, if it's not already: Zeldman is re-designing his site. Having existed since 1996, he's got a lot to re-work, if he chooses to go that route (which I'm pretty sure he won't). It should be interesting to see how it all works out, him getting paid tons of money to teach other people to re-design and all.
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: Pixelism
Zeldman on pixel perfect design.
Eric Meyer on CSS: Tricking Browsers and Hiding Styles
Are you working on a site that needs to degrade gracefully in older browsers while still making use of advanced CSS in modern ones? This article is for you then. Meyer goes into detail about how to keep browsers alive by only giving them what they understand. Good quick read with good examples and explanations.
dive into mark/October 16, 2002: The myths of web accessibility
Having a family member who has numerous disabilities (not yet to the point where these issues are important) makes me even more aware. I've tried to incorporate the different suggestions Mark mentions. However, not everyone is directly touched by someone who benefits from this type of good design, so it's important for people like Mark to continue to support it. I do my part by causing hell for people who illegally park in handicapped spaces, and Mark advocates good design principles. I mean hey, we all do what we can, right?
Although probably not standard compliant, I'm rather enjoying CNN's new layout... It's just nicer to look at.
Digital Web Magazine - Features: 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete
The man just keeps it coming, with this excerpt from his upcoming book. I own the first one, Taking Your Talent to the Web and look forward to the second... As soon as I get a job so I can afford it...
Jeffrey Zeldman says we should help our clients see the light by showing them how standards help them, not by "selling" them on standards. I agree wholeheartedly, and I think there should be a test suite available that displays this. For instance, maybe at the WASP, you could go to a page where the stylesheet was editable and the client could post text and see how it works. Every nihgt a little cron job could reset everything so it was back to useable, or maybe it would happen more frequently.
"Why?" you ask. Well, I know, as Zeldman says, its probably more productive to show a client the benefits of standards through their own system, but what about the small design firms that need to win a job using their standards knowledge vs. the competitors obliviousness? The CSS display suite would be a great way to give them a leg up.
Consider this filed in the list of projects to work on.
In checking out where the latest visitors came from, I found a reference from a bot called BumbleBee from a company called Relavare. So, since I'm a curious kind of guy, I went to their website to see what they're all about. Turns out they have a pretty neat navigation interface; it's an excellent example of why vector graphics rule. Definitely have to file that away for future reference.
I wish I was this good...
Stick out the downloads... The animation is worth it. I can't wait to watch the rest of them.
pillars.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x400 pixels)
According to the creator, that image was an accident...
I'd like to be able to create accidents like that.
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