Search Results for CSS

• 7.16.07 My weekend with XSLT posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I just spent a very long weekend teaching myself XSL. I don’t mean long as in more than two days, but long in that I didn’t sleep and played with this stuff for hours straight. Days straight, actually. Too long. What I’m really trying to figure out is how to get this to apply to my current design. I can now fully see the power (and limitations) of xml and XSLT, but I don’t have a lot of applications that require such a technology. So here’s what I put together…

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• 7.13.07 News from CulturedCode posted in Web Design

  It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from them, but CulturedCode has released a new version of XyleScope and has plans to release a GTD-based ToDo manager called “Things”…

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• 6.1.07 Semantic Details posted in Web Design

  When we did our Circle Six redesign, it was important to me that we go out of our way to make this our most semantic and accessible site yet. Clean, semantic code was the goal, and here are some details that we considered that you may want to keep in mind for your next project…

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• 5.29.07 Speeeeed posted in Web Design, Website Updates

  Did you notice? The blog is WAY faster than it was yesterday. I got my CSS compressed with Marco’s plugin, my javascript optimized, compressed and re-ordered, and my pages being served with gzip compression. Man, what a difference. My page load times cut in half. Read on for a few tricks I learned today…

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• 5.29.07 Wordpress Optimization posted in Web Design

  I’m going to take a “back-to-work” break after the long weekend and let my friend Marco do the blogging today. He’s got a great article on some things that anyone can do to optimize their Wordpress site (or any site), and it includes a few things I hadn’t heard before. Also included in the article is a great new plugin that he wrote, called WP-CSS-Streamliner, which will take all of the CSS files linked in each page, combine them in the order they were linked, optimize them, gzip-compress them and serve them up before any javascript is loaded. This is especially great if you’re running anything like Extended Live Archives or WP-Lightbox, which stick their own CSS files into the head. It’s running right now on the main C6 site, and although it comes with no guarantees, it’s working great. Check it out: On a quest for the ultimate website performance.

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• 4.23.07 A Few Thoughts on Coda posted in Web Design

  I seem to be the only one not thinking of switching my entire web development platform to Coda. I’m not saying it couldn’t ever happen, but in my last 2 hours of experimenting I’ve been suffering from Dreamweaver flashbacks.

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• 4.15.07 How-to: Rotating VIRB Headers posted in Web Design

  I get a lot of questions about how to do rotating headers on VIRB profiles. So here’s a quick tutorial. If the technique provided here is beyond your skill level, you’ll probably need to find someone who can help you execute it. But if you’ve got enough skill to create between 2 and 15 headers of the same dimensions, and enough CSS knowledge to put them at the top of your page as a background image in a div, you can probably pull this off.

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• 4.5.07 A Chilly Day to be Naked posted in Website Updates

  We got some April snow here in Minnesota yesterday. But that didn’t stop me from stripping off my CSS and jumping in the CSS Naked Day lake. So if you’re here and it’s April 5th, you’re seeing my site at it’s nudest, most semantic state. I didn’t disable all of the stylesheets loaded by javascript (lightbox, extended live archives, etc.), so some parts of the site function strangely well in the context of a barren landscape, but I feel like I participated.

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• 4.4.07 Fresh Strawberry Design posted in Website Updates

  Admittedly not my best design ever, so I saved the microphone theme in its entirety until this is a little more smoothed out, but here’s my latest blog design. It’s got a light-up strawberry. Seriously, touch it. It’s scary. There are a lot of little hidden CSS tricks throughout the site, evidence that I’m getting better at my trade. I’m still very unhappy with the overall readability and having trouble finding that line between fun design and practical design. I’ll get there. I can do one or the other, I’m just working out how to combine them…

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• 3.25.07 More on VIRB Styling posted in Web Design

  I’ve tweaked my system for styling VIRB profiles a little and thought I would share the results. My system is tailored to OS X using TextMate and CSSEdit, but the basics are transferrable to any platform/editor. You could do this on a PC with Notepad, if you were exceedingly patient (or perhaps simpleminded). You do, however, need some basic coding skills and whatever graphic skills your profile dreams demand. Here’s my personal workflow…

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