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• 10.20.06 TextMate CSS Editing posted in Web Design, Geekery

  This is just going to be a couple of quick tips for CSS editing in TextMate, including a modification of the Insert Color command that will seriously help with adding colors to your layout. Intuitive Editing The language files that come with Textmate do a great job of highlighting the code. You’ll know exactly when you get […]

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• 10.20.06 CSSTux posted in Asides

  I made it onto a CSS Gallery (go give me a good vote!). The second one I’ve ever submitted to, and the first one that accepted me. Now I’m all self conscious. Circle Six Happenings» CSS» webdesign»

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• 9.12.06 Home(page) improvement posted in Website Updates

  I fixed up the homepage a little bit. It matches the aesthetic for the blog now. I’d like to eventually incorporate the two under the same address, but I’ve got so much traffic coming in from Google I’m afraid to make any major changes to the subdomain structure. I should have […]

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• 9.4.06 Website as DNA posted in Web Design

  There’s a fun new website up at http://www.baekdal.com/web2dna/. It takes a given website and converts it to human DNA, the brightness and density based on the markup. The more keywords and the more semantic the markup is, the brighter and denser the map. The image included in this post is from […]

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• 9.1.06 IE Developer Center Redesign: still a table. posted in Web Design

  Microsoft just announced a redesign of their Internet Explorer Developer Center on the IEblog. So I checked it out. You would think, with all of their supposed attention to CSS and standards compliance on IE7 that they would have paid a little attention to either one when putting a redesign of their […]

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• 8.28.06 Internet Explorer 7 fixed up? Nope. posted in Web Design

  A recent post on the IE Blog seemed hopeful. They’ve made a lot of fixes recently. But reports from beta testers, found in the comments of the post, were discouraging, as what IE claimed to have fixed was still erratic and fundamentally broken, and there are still major parts of the CSS1 […]

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• 8.27.06 Higher Learning and Web Standards. posted in Web Design

  The Minneapolis College of Art and Design homepage is entirely CSS P and standards compliant! This discovery was the result of curiosity sparked over my weekend there… I was a graduate of the Interactive Media program and in 2000 when I graduated, we had all been taught table-based layout. So I wondered […]

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• 8.13.06 AJAX: The argument for standards posted in Web Design

  Some of the reading I’ve been doing lately has made me realize something I had taken for granted. AJAX couldn’t exist without the standards that I’m always going on about. AJAX calls depend on CSS classes and ID’s to make changes to the structure of a webpage. That’s the entire idea […]

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• 8.9.06 How important is validation? posted in Web Design

  I have a confession to make. While I work hard to make my businesses homepage validate, and I try to keep my smaller sites validated, I let it slide on bigger sites. And I let warnings pile up. And I started wondering if I was alone… This post on boompa.com seemed to validate […]

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• 8.8.06 IE7 and CSS… a dead horse? posted in General

  So the initial reports are popping up around the net. Internet Explorer 7 is only 54% compatible with the CSS 2.1 standard, vs. firefox’s 93% and Opera 9’s 96% (statistical analysis based on this source). This jives with my initial experiences with the beta release, although the Microsoft blog claims quite a […]

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