Group items tagged

YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns. The 4kb file provides over 1000 page layout combinations.

Since tables were co-opted for layout purposes, columns have become key to many Web design layouts, and this thinking continued when CSS took over from tables (at least in the minds of savvy designers) for Web-page presentation. However, other fields of layout design don't think in arbitrary columns, they work with grids, and these form the basis for the structure of page designs. This article will provide the lowdown on grid design for Web pages. Thinking modular Grids are a template, a framework within which creativity can flourish. Too many designers spend time looking at a blank canvas, trying to figure out where elements should be positioned, but, if you have a flexible underlying grid, many such problems are already solved for you. It becomes obvious where and how elements should and can be positioned, thereby leaving you, the designer, with more time to work on graphic design and other page components.

Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We've seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I've collated all the information I could find to create some coding conventions for ensuring that your site will work first time in every browser. There are some things you should consider for Safari and Firefox also, and IE isn't always the culprit for your CSS woes.

Russell Wilson's blog on usability, user-centered design, interface design

CSS Spriting is a technique for speeding up the load times for your website by reducing the number of HTTP requests for images to the server.

I've put together a list of useful CSS classes I find myself using on a regular basis, and a few of these are actually required by the Wordpress gang if you're going to submit a free Wordpress template to them.

XRAY is a free cross browser tool that lets you see the box model in action for any element, letting you see beneath the skin of any web page.

CSS designs using float

Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following topics: * Ad Units * Calendars * Carousels * Charts and Tables * UI Controls * Form Elements * Grids * Menus and Buttons * Mobile - General * Mobile - iPhone * Navigation and Pagination * OS Elements * Placeholder Text * Screen Resolutions * Tabs * Windows and Containers

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. If you like this, you may be interested in our browser compatibility service, SiteVista. Yes, that's why this software is free! :-)

Very nice. Great looking lists! Found this link at CSS-Tricks

tingelets are a set of bookmarklets that you can place in your browsers bookmark bar. When clicked, they highlight a certain tag or set of tags in a specific color or background tile. They are very handy for quickly looking at web layouts in different browsers. You can either highlight tags directly or type in a tag, id or class name to highlight the matching element(s).

The final section "What size do I need to support?" has the findings summary, but the entire article is a very worthwhile read.

This is a creative example of quantitative user research. According to the findings from this article the "above the fold" size that will apply to the most people browsing is 776px wide by 424px high. This takes into account the browser chrome and surfing w/o being maximized. I think this study should be performed regularly, every couple of years perhaps to follow display size changes.