Contents of Web Design
03.15.2007 / Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing
For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
How to use a combination of em and percent units to gain consistent cross browser text rendering.
01.26.2007 / General HTML/CSS Resources
For Public; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
I thought I’d quickly share a few sites that I’ve either found personally useful or, given where I am now, wish existed when I was picking the trade up.
01.23.2007 / A Primer on Designing for Internet Explorer 7
For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
An explanation of some design changes and their impacts in IE7 as well as some resources about current rendering bugs.
12.15.2006 / Rounded Corners in Web Sites...
For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
This article attempts to reduce some of the headache of getting rounded corners to work across major web browsers.
05.28.2006 / Yahoo!'s Graded Browser Support
For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
Yahoo!’s Graded Browser Support is a great starting point for determing testing for apps or sites intended for uncontrolled environments.
02.09.2006 / Well Formed Forms
For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
Creating a form is arguably the most annoying pure (x)HTML task. This article provides resources for standards based accessibility then looks into some research into the less quantitative sides of formdom.
01.11.2006 / E-Mail Address Obfuscation
For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
An overview of using Forms, JavaScript, and AJAX to help hide e-mail addresses on sites from e-mail harvestors to reduce spam.
12.07.2005 / Browser Support @ Middleware Infrastructure
For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
Thoughts on browser support at UCLA, covering some design philosophies and then a breakdown of our support decisions.
09.27.2005 / Distributed Content Management
For Public; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
We’ll explore some of the implications and applications of the Distributed Content Management after giving a brief overview of some of the popular weblogging/CMS tools often used for such purposes, and will be more or less available on what BOL decides to roll out in the near future.
09.14.2005 / Image Replacement (FIR)
For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
Using CSS to input images is a somewhat perilous task, as currently supported css specifications only intended images to be inserted as the background of an element. It is a compromise at this point, but there are ways to minimize accessibility compromises that arise from having to insert images as backgrounds.
09.14.2005 / Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR)
For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.
Web designers have long had to rely on unique images if they want to have a specific font for a header, which is time consuming, expensive, bandwidth intensive, and not very flexible. sIFR is an extremely simple way of converting content into anti-aliased text in the font of your choice, rendered on the fly, with full css/(x)html degredation if flash and/or javascript are not enabled.