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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
TweetIf you’ve been paying any attention to my blog you will have seen that I never finished styling the tweet feed widget. The issue was this: there are some inline styles which the widget inserts dynamically. I didn’t quite realise this until I went back to finish off my stying. In case you don’t know [...]
Tags: bd, blog, borders, bugs, css, design, doc overflow, firebug, html, img border, inline styles, lt, radius, tweet, twitter, twtr, widget, zoom
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
TweetThis is a must-read eBook for web designers everywhere. I keep hearing Ben’s voice in my head as I code: if in doubt, take it out. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Don’t waste space on unnecessary details! I had already noticed how quickly borders and other fancy tricks eat up valuable screen real estate. Ben Hunt takes [...]
Tags: attention grabbers, attention span, books, borders, bright colours, colour, colourful, content area, credibility, design, fancy tricks, heading, microseconds, sentences, unnecessary details, useability, waste space, web designers, white space, widget, word count
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
TweetToday I decided to log in to twitter, something I have not done in quite a while – until a week or so ago. I had removed the twitter feed widget that I had on my page due to lack of use, but decided to give it another go. One potential advantage of having the [...]
Tags: black, blog, borders, browser menu, code generator, containers, css, design, google, html, markup, safari, search engines, search ranking, tweets, twitter, view source, web inspector, widget
Posted in Tutorials, web design | 11 Comments »