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Overused Words: Bulletproof
February 8, 2009 @ 11:22 pm
Bulletproof. Is there a more overused word when it comes to web design and CSS? I’m not sure there is. It’s one of those things that has been used so much it starts to lose it’s meaning. Maybe it’s just the mood I’m in but the word really gets on my nerves of late. Continue Reading »
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NewsWordy: Keyword Heavy CSS Driven Site
November 28, 2008 @ 10:31 am
I’m working on creating a keyword heavy site in order to generate traffic which right now I just call NewsWordy. My roots are in political blogging so even though I quit that on my own sites I still read and comment on a lot of other people’s political blogs. The site I want to create is simply to show the very latest conversations on the most popular political blogs and combine it with keywords from news feeds. What should come out is a tag cloud with the keywords from the conversions on a certain day or other time period. Continue Reading »
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Realtime Usage Statistics
October 25, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
The activity on the site has started to pick up slightly this month so I’ve decided to take a look at some usage data. Along with Google Analytics I also track site usage in-house using a low scale PHP/JavaScript tracking system I started but never made fully functional for users. It does now however let me interface directly with the tracker and give me summary information for the site. Continue Reading »
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Animated GIF For CSS Sprites
October 17, 2008 @ 8:49 am
In the post 10 Easy Steps to Great Website Optimization the Wojo Group mentions CSS sprites in #3 and it got me thinking. You should always use CSS sprites if you can and not just because they’re super cool in a nerdy sort of way. When people talk about sprites though they often only talk in terms of server load. That is of course the biggest advantage of sprites in my opinion but what about the ability of a CSS sprite to save you time and energy? I’d like to show you one of the more bizarre cases I’ve implemented in my own work and talk about how that saved time. An animated GIF for a CSS sprite. Continue Reading »
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CSS Systems
October 10, 2008 @ 9:12 am
So I haven’t been doing a good job. I’ve neglected my young site. But life happens and sometimes you like baseball more than you like CSS but now it’s October and the Dodgers flawless ascension to the World Series has hit a bump in the first round of the NLCS with a 2-3 loss to the Phillies. Snap back to reality. That 11-0 run to glory ain’t gonna happen after all and I’m starting to realize I need to get back to other hobbies before it’s too late. Continue Reading »
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Reset, And Starting From Scratch
August 18, 2008 @ 8:12 am
In college I took 2D and 3D design courses as part of the digital graphics minor I was completing. The mechanics of art have always come easy to me but I just grew out of wanting to do it a long time ago. I would start with what I thought was a good idea but by the end of the project I was just ready to move on to the next. That’s exactly how I am with CSS. Continue Reading »
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Two Pseudo-elements You Can Use
July 20, 2008 @ 9:43 am
Today on CSS-Discuss a user asked a question about the pseudo-element “:first-letter”. Having started designing websites when Netscape 4 was still a consideration I find it hard to unlearn a lot of things. I’ve been afraid to try stranger parts of CSS like pseudo-elements for a while and just never consider them when I’m designing a site. I decided to do a rough test of which pseudo-elements work and which do not. Continue Reading »
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Semantic HTML Site Outline
July 18, 2008 @ 9:17 am
Last night I was playing with the structure of the site trying to get the semantics of the HTML better. Using the tools from the W3C’s semantic data extraction for the site it gives me a nifty outline of the site. Continue Reading »
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CSS Specificity
July 14, 2008 @ 11:26 am
A member of CSS-Discuss today was having a problem with a centered P tag not actually being centered in the browser. When I saw what the problem was I had a flashback of my early days with CSS and I understood how this person felt. The problem was with CSS Specificity, a concept I didn’t know about for a long time and my work suffered for it. Continue Reading »
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Welcome To The New Blog
July 14, 2008 @ 6:50 am
My blog is up and running and I’ll start posting content here in the coming days. Stay tuned.
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