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Frederik Van Zande

A List Apart: Articles: Progressive Enhancement with CSS - 0 views

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    In the previous article in this series, we covered the basic concept of progressive enhancement; now, we can begin discussing how to use it. There are many ways to integrate progressive enhancement into your work using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and this article will cover a few of the biggies and get you thinking about other ways to progressively enhance your sites.
Vernon Fowler

Replacing the -9999px hack (new image replacement) - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily... - 0 views

  • My friend Scott Kellum, design director at Treesaver, has now sent me this refactored code for hiding text, which I hereby christen the Kellum Method: .hide-text { text-indent: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; } Really long strings of text will never flow into the container because they always flow away from the container. Performance is dramatically improved because a 9999px box is not drawn. Noticeably so in animations on the iPad 1.
  • Scott Kellum said on 1 March 2012 at 3:41 pm: I went ahead and created a side by side site to test the performance: http://lab.pgdn.us/hidden-text-performance/ @Ethan, This is the best 43min I have ever spent learning about optimizing the performance of my CSS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuMWhto62Eo
  • Would be interesting to understand both the SEO and accessibility impacts of this approach.
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  • Scott Kellum said on 2 March 2012 at 4:06 pm: After much deliberation over here: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1005#issuecomment-4293007 Jonathan Neal suggested a method using font: 0/0 serif; and things seem to be settling on this — .ir { font: 0/0 serif; text-shadow: none; color: transparent; }
  • While I think this is certainly and interesting approach, I have some concerns with the accessibility. In some, if not all, cases when overflow: hidden; hides the content of the element this is applied to from screen readers. In most cases where I use image replacement, I still need the text to be accessible (e.g. call to action buttons set in Gotham). See Aaron Gustafson’s A List Apart article, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/now-you-see-me/. Has anyone tested this with a wide battery of screen readers or other accessibility devices?
  • Another note on accessibility: Besides the screen reader problems – people who don’t get images will not see the text too.
  • As a few people said already, this does not solve the accessibility problem that comes with text-indent. Worse, it may send the wrong message: “this is new and cool, use this from now!”. As a leader in the industry, I think you should warn people that even if this is “better” in term of performance, it is still a bad solution. Imo, Image Replacement techniques should be evaluated against the problems they solve/address. Fwiw, I wrote something about these challenges a few years back: http://tjkdesign.com/articles/tip.asp </shameless plug>
mesbah095

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webartist

Design Feeds - 0 views

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    A collection of design related articles, resources, comments and inspiration. Designfeeds.com.au provides easy to use and up to date information on anything design. From design inspiration to CSS and coding techniques, Designfeeds.com.au refreshes every 10 minutes and grabs new articles from a growing resource of respected websites.
anonymous

Want to Join A SEO Company India? Learn the Basic SEO Terms First - 0 views

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    This article discusses 12 SEO terms. If you want to work as a SEO expert in a SEO company India, then you should know these terms. Some of the popular SEO terms discussed in this article are SEM, backlink, PageRank, title tags, keyword density, web crawlers etc.
Jason Bao

Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for down... - 0 views

shared by Jason Bao on 14 Feb 07 - Cached
  • In November 2005 I presented on pro.html.it a three-part article on creating CSS layouts using techniques like negative margins, any order columns and in some case opposite floats. The main goal of the article was getting the maximum number of layouts based on the same markup, each with valid CSS and HTML, without hacks nor workaround and a good cross-browser compatibility. The result is a set of 40 layouts that we've thought worth sharing: on each of them you'll find also a download link (if you want, you can download the entire collection, 40 HTML pages in a single zip file). Further details can be found below the gallery.
yc c

Understanding border-image | CSS-Tricks - 6 views

  • Strangely, the percentages require the “%”, while pixels should be listed without the “px”:
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    The new CSS3 property border-image is a little tricky, but it can allow you to create flexible boxes with custom borders (or drop shadows, if that's your thing) with a single div and a single image. In this article I explain how the border-image shorthand property works in today's browsers.
leengy

A List Apart: Articles: Sliding Doors of CSS - 0 views

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    That was a cool article, i think ;-)
Frederik Van Zande

How to Code HTML Email Newsletters [HTML & XHTML Tutorials] - 0 views

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    HTML email newsletters have come a long way in the five years since this article was first published. HTML email is still a very successful communications medium for both publishers and readers. Publishers can track rates for email opens, forwards, and clickthroughs, and thereby can measure reader interest in products and topics; readers are presented with information that's laid out like a web page, in a way that's more visually appealing, and much easier to scan and navigate, than plain text email.
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    Browser idiosyncracies, spam registers, and various mail clients are just some of the pitfalls that must be faced by email marketers. Make sure your HTML email gets through with Tim's essential how-to.
helloe

PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" » Archive... - 7 views

  • Writing CSS is very much like having sex. Not everyone does it the same way and there is no particular “right” way to do it. I guess for me the similarities actually end there, seeing as writing CSS is something I do every day whereas having sex is…anyway I digress. The W3C have set the standards but beyond this, writing CSS is down to an individual’s preferences. Here are 5 little tips and ideas I’ve adopted in the last 6 months that you can use to make your CSS more streamlined, maintainable and easy to read. Written by Jon Disclaimer: The CSS example files are exactly that. They are not meant to be fully functional CSS documents. Class names in the CSS files are named merely so that you may visualise the document in your head (because there is no accompanying html), not because I condone the naming convention in them.
  • 1) Make a table of contents At the top of your CSS document, write out a table of contents. For example, you could outline the different areas that your CSS document is styling (header, main, footer etc). Then, use a large, obvious section break to separate the areas. Not only does this make your CSS look neater, but when it comes to making quick adjustments to certain areas of your website at a later date, finding the corresponding area in your CSS will be much easier. View Example File 1
  • 3) Isolate single properties that you are likely to reuse a lot If you find yourself using a single property a lot, isolate it to save yourself repeating it over and over again and also enabling you to change the display of all parts of the site that use it. View Example File 3
Gary Edwards

Grid design basics: Grids for Web page layouts - Opera Developer Community - 2 views

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    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.
Frederik Van Zande

How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time | Anthony Short | Web Design & Develo... - 0 views

  • Here is a quick summary for those of you who don't want to read the whole article: Always use strict doctype and standards-compliant HTML/CSS Always use a reset at the start of your css Use opacity:0.99 on text elements to clean up rendering in Safari Never resize images in the CSS or HTML Check font rendering in every browser. Don't use Lucida Size text as a % in the body, and as em's throughout All layout divs that are floated should include display:inline and overflow:hidden Containers should have overflow:auto and trigger hasLayout via a width or height Don't use any fancy CSS3 selectors Don't use transparent PNG's unless you have loaded the alpha
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    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.
Jungle Jar

JungleJar - CSS Authoring For Quick Indexing - 0 views

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    In this article I'm going to show you various ways that I myself have written my CSS files with an emphasis on some sort of order. This is my evolution of CSS authoring, if you will. I'll also be coining phrases as I go along to give some sort of personality to the aggregation of code. Maybe they will catch on..
Perry Branch

Actual Browser Sizes (final) - Baekdal.com - 0 views

  • in order to support 95% of your visitors, you need to design for a maximum size of 776x424px
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    The final section "What size do I need to support?" has the findings summary, but the entire article is a very worthwhile read.
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    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.
my mashable

Disable YouTube's related videos With a Simple Hack Code - 0 views

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    Disable YouTube's related videos With a Simple Hack Code - YouTube added the feature "related videos" wayback in 2007. Iam sure every YouTube user come across with this feature. Once the video completes playing, will displays a list of related videos..." />
my mashable

TweetDeck v0.25 Integrates Facebook & Twitpic Previews - 0 views

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    TweetDeck v0.25 Integrates Facebook & Twitpic Previews - TweetDeck is a personal browser used to stay in touch with the latest happening around us and connect you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck v0.25 recently released..." />
Vernon Fowler

Now You See Me · An A List Apart Article - 0 views

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anonymous

Is Your "Coming Soon" Page Not Creating Enough Buzz? - 0 views

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    Some businesses share details about their company, products, services, etc, in their "coming soon" pages to grab market attention. This article offers a few tips on "coming soon" page design and discusses how this marketing strategy can help you make your site popular.
anonymous

How Do You Make Your Followers Click On Your Twitter Headlines? - 0 views

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    Only designing a website and writing content is not enough these days; you need to grab the attention of the internet audience as well. Only an enticing headline will prompt readers to click on your page links. So, headlines should be short and promising and include keywords. This article offers some useful tips to make your Twitter headlines smarter and catchier.
anonymous

6 Important Tips for Defensive Web Design - 0 views

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    This article discusses defensive web design in detail. It points out how, unless you help your users cope with functional errors, your website may lose visitors.
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