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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
TweetThis tiny book almost makes you want to scream “it’s not a book, it’s a pamphlet” – and thank goodness for that! Sick and tired of long boring tomes full of waffle that you need a PhD in geekery to understand? Then HTML5 For Web Designers was written with you in mind, and not a [...]
Tags: alternative methods, arcane art, brief history, canvas, explanations, geolocation, goodness, history of html, jigsaw puzzle, markup elements, pamphlet, puzzle piece, reference book, semantic markup, tiny book, tomes, waffle, web designer, web designers, web workers
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
TweetHow do web designers manage to get those cool effects, like overlapping boxes, shadows and rounded corners? Well, it used to be fairly tricky to do, using extra <span> elements with background images (for rounded corners) and extra divs with darker backgrounds (for box shadows). Don’t even mention drop shadows on text: the only browser [...]
Tags: axis, background images, blur, boxes, css2, dimensional space, divs, drop shadows, element, elements, inset, internet explorer, negative integer, rounded corners, span, stacking order, text shadow, web designers, whole number
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
TweetNow that CSS3 and HTML5 are well and truly here, fixing websites for Internet Explorer has become a more arduous task than most designers are prepared to undertake. Why do I say this? Well, taking a look at the web today it seems that the majority of web designers have simply given up on adding [...]
Tags: arduous task, background color, borders, bugs, chrome, chrome frame, colour, css, css3, cutting edge, design, drop shadows, gif, gradients, html, internet explorer, javascript, jQuery, png, replacements, rounded corners, safari, segments, square corners, textured background, transparent areas, trident, web designers, web today, webkit
Posted in useability, web design | 6 Comments »