We know that one of the best uses of CSS is its ability to cascade style settings (rules). However, I have seen many website CSS files that do not fully take advantage of some of the most powerful aspects of CSS – descending selectors. I…
I ran across Retrievr earlier today, and found it to be very interesting, if not extremely similar to a rumor about some Google image searching capabilities from a while back. Still, it’s surely something to play with and see what you can find. Essentially, you…
The MIX 06 ended a few short days ago, and with it, we saw the release of the IE7 Beta 2. This has been, needless to say, a highly awaited version (at least for developers). It seems that the MIX did very well, and they…
One thing that CSS allows us to use for screen presentation are alternate cursors. This is not the idea of downloading or forcing a download of a cursor, as was done in the past (though that is possible as well), but instead, we use several…
This week can be described in a single word: Chaos. My 6 year old is on spring break from school, so the house is like one enormous tornado as she and her 3 year old brother fly by in a whirling Tazmanian-devil fashion, and there…
You can now see the long awaited site redesign of The Web Standards Project (WaSP) live, and My, Oh My… it’s a big change. The design comes to WaSP from Malarkey, and he has published an article detailing the process he used to get to…
I have a Writely account and decided to test it out and see how it works. Writely is touted as an online collaborative document creation application that can export to various formats (documents, webpages, post to blogs, give an RSS feed, etc..). It was said…
Since I recently wrote an article on the benefits of a tableless layout, I felt it prudent to express my views on it in practical application. I personally know many many web developers who work in the industry, and whether these people have multiple clients,…
Recently Kalle asked me to write up an article on why people should stop using tables, and show a simple example of tableless design. The reason was not because he doesn’t know how to create them, nor because there are not many examples on the…
StikiPad, Inc is the brainchild of two entrepreneurs on a mission to create some new functionality for the web. How are they progressing? Well, from my point of view, they seem to be doing pretty darn good. In fact, my first though was… “Oh… a…