I’ve been doing a lot of reading recently and getting up to speed with the developments of CSS3 and discovering how it’s going to effect my day to day work. Continue reading
Category Archives: Web Design
CSS2.2
iPhoney
Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it’s free.
iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs.
iPhoney is currently only available for the Mac but presumably will be making it’s way onto Windows shortly.
Quick tip: Doctype
A DOCTYPE (short for “document type declaration”) informs the validator which version of (X)HTML you’re using, and must appear at the very top of every web page. In this quick tip I’ll be going through the valid doctypes that you should use at the start of your document.
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Quick tip: CSS link ordering
From time to time I’ll come across a little tip or something useful that web designers should know or have easy reference to. When I’ve come across these bits of information in the past, I’ve usually added them to my browser bookmarks only to find that they become lost in a sea of favourites.However, so that these bits of information don’t get lost, I’m going to add them to my blog so that they’re much easier to reference. Continue reading
@media London Podcasts
The podcasts for Day One of @media 07 London are now available.
These include presentations from Molly Holzschlag, Jesse James Garrett, Tantek Çelik, Nate Koechley, Dan Cederholm, Richard Ishida, Mark Boulton and Joe Clark.
Download Day One of @media 07 London podcasts
Day Two should be available from mid-July.
The curse of the WYSIWYG
I spend quite a lot of my time over at the SitePoint forums passing on some of my experience within the web industry to budding new web designers who are all eager to learn but have run in to problems when building their pages. Continue reading
SEO Guide
Chris Beasley has written a great search engine optimisation guide over at his site.
This free guide contains over 20,000 words and would be over 60 pages long if printed, and that just includes the core 6 sections. There are dozens more pages of supplemental reading linked to from here and from within the guide itself and best of all it’s free.
As a web designer, I’ve done my fair bit of work in this area over the years but haven’t come across a guide that goes into as much depth as this and will certainly be taking the time out to read it for any useful tips that I could apply.
Differences between HTML5 and HTML4
From the W3C HTML Working Group, an excellent summary of the significant differences between HTML 4 and the current draft of HTML 5. None of this is final, and the document itself is under active development, but it’s a very worthwhile read nonetheless.
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/html4-differences/Overview.html
The Business case for Web Standards Wiki
Chris Heilmann has launched this wiki project to collectively document arguments for (and counterarguments against) the adoption of web standards from a business perspective. Different audiences are considered and significant case studies are included.
Happy 12th Birthday Zeldman.com
Zeldman.com turned 12 years old this month and featured on the site is a best of collaboration of Jeffrey’s musing from a decade of his ramblings.
He’s been an inspiration to everyone in the industry and hopefully he’ll keep posting for many years to come.