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Andy Budd on Usability, Design, and the Death of CSS

“Andy Budd was in Melbourne as the keynote speaker for the Web Directions UX conference this week. SitePoint’s Matthew Magain spent some time chatting to him about blogging, design, CSS frameworks, careers on the web, usability testing, the future of the Web, and much more.”

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/andy-budd-design-usability-css

admin | Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 11:55 AM CT | Comments (3)

Calculate the Specificity of CSS Selectors

Virginia DeBolt shares a tip: Calculate the Specificity of CSS Selectors “Have you ever added a new rule to your CSS stylesheet, but seen no change in the results on the page in the browser window? Maybe the new selector wasn’t specific enough to overrule and existing rule in your stylesheet. Here’s how to mathematically calculate the specific weight of your CSS selectors. The W3C uses mathmatical formulas to determine the weight of any particular style. The more weight a style has, the more specific it is.”

admin | Friday, May 23, 2008 at 5:47 PM CT | Comments (0)

Design Decisions vs. Audience Considerations

Design Decisions vs. Audience Considerations “looks at how to handle the conflict between what your users want, and what you want them to want. Robin Ragle-Davis considers how upfront audience profiling can reap customer relationship benefits down the line.”

admin | Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 8:46 AM CT | Comments (1)

Get Meryl to Jump out of a Plane!

Meryl’s eight-year-old blog promises readers she will jump out of a plane if we raise $5000 worth of prizes to celebrate the blog’s 8th birthday.

admin | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 4:44 PM CT | Comments (0)

line-height: abnormal

Even the great CSS master, Eric Meyer, gets frustrated with line layout. He thinks out loud about line-height: normal, which is more like abnormal. Take a look.

admin | Friday, May 16, 2008 at 7:49 AM CT | Comments (0)

Designers Who Blog Guest Appearance

{blush} Cat made this place look good. I love her blog as she introduces us to talented designers and people who manage beautifully designed sites (I’m not a designer). She makes cool banners out of the designers’ blogs and their pictures. Wow. Check out the CSS Collection entry and many others.

admin | Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 7:02 AM CT | Comments (2)

Photoshop Express Available

“We’re happy to report we have successfully fixed the bug that slightly delayed our newest feature update for the Photoshop Express beta. New updates are now publicly available. We appreciate your patience as we focus on delivering a quality experience for our users. The Photoshop Express beta community helped inform many of these new features, and we look forward to continued feedback as the application evolves.”

• Adobe Photoshop Express Team

admin | Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 9:18 AM CT | Comments (0)

CSS Bug Fixing Tips

As much as I love CSS, I get frustrated with it because it can be hard to track down the cause of why something won’t behave the way you want it. Try these tips for fixing CSS. The Firefox Web Developer toolbar helps a lot here, too.

admin | Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8:49 AM CT | Comments (0)

Organize Your CSS

I love being organized. It helps me find things and keep my space open and free of clutter. Of course, having kids… you accept clutter is just a part of life. I’m not going to spend my days cleaning up after the kids. Got more important things to do like go to their games and put my best work forward for clients.

I haven’t played with enough web pages to come up with a way to organize CSS, but plenty of articles How to organize your css code: the ‘killer’ css structure like show you how.

admin | Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7:48 AM CT | Comments (0)

Improve Your Page Performance With Lazy Loading

“Today’s web applications can necessitate a huge weight of both JavaScript and CSS–but in many application designs huge sections can be delayed, speeding up the total page response time to the user. Jakob Heuser shows us how to create a lazy loading utility, and start cutting down on your load times.”

admin | Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 7:47 AM CT | Comments (0)

Adobe Photoshop Express Update

“As you know, we were preparing updates to the Photoshop Express beta on May 7th that added significant new functionality to the product. However, prior to going live, we discovered a bug that requires a fix. We’re committed to delivering a quality experience with Photoshop Express and don’t want to send out an update that isn’t ready for prime time. We’re working on a quick resolution. Stay tuned - we’ll have an exact time frame on when you can expect these new Photoshop Express features soon.”

• Adobe Photoshop Express Team

admin | Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 7:37 PM CT | Comments (6)

A List Apart #258

Latest issue:

Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow - “Q. What technology do you need to build the next Flickr? A. Trick question. What you need to build the next Flickr is people. George Oates, a key member of the core team that shaped the Flickr community, shares lessons that can help you grow yours.”

Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help? - “Just because a design convention exists doesn’t mean it works. Our field runneth over with design patterns, but is low on evidence of their utility. Jessica Enders drops some science on the widespread belief that zebra stripes aid the reader by guiding the eye along a table row.”

admin | Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 7:07 AM CT | Comments (0)