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CSS Centering - fun for all - now in Turkish

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

CSS Centering - fun for all has now been translated into Turkish by Kara - CSS ile ortalama

Styling abbreviations and acronyms - now in French

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Styling abbreviations and acronyms has now been translated into French by Eric Grimois - Mise en forme des abréviations et acronymes

Project Gmail Grimace - a sad story of neglected developers

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The Email Standards Project has heard from designers all over the world how frustrating it is that Gmail, the otherwise excellent webmail client, does such a disappointing job rendering HTML email. I had no idea how hard it was for developers until I saw this movie - which moved me with its raw emotion.
I guess […]

Canberra Website User Experience and CSS workshop - finished

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Donna Maurer and I have just wrapped up our first 2-day Website user experience & CSS workshop in Canberra. An enthusiastic and fun group of people!
Some feedback from participants includes:
Well structured, plenty of interactivity
Made CSS click together for me - solved some issues!
Fantastic, entertaining

Uncovering the “Explorer 6 Duplicate Characters Bug” in the wild

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I don’t know about you, but I get very excited when I see an Internet Explorer 6 bug in the wild. It’s like bird-watching - coming across these weird and quirky rendering bugs in their natural habitat.
Take for example a recent update I made to a client’s home page. The two new buttons at the […]

Coloured boxes - now in Brazilian-Portuguese

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Colored boxes - one method of building full CSS layouts has now been translated into Brazilian-Portuguese by Mauricio Samy Silva - Layout CSS passo a passo

Website user experience & CSS workshop

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley.
Over two full days you will build detailed websites layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
Day 1: Planning and designing the user experience […]

“Background images for bullets” - now in French

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Background images for bullets has now been translated into French by Rodrigue Hunel and the developpez.com team - Des images à la place des puces de liste

Coloured boxes - now in Spanish

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Colored boxes - one method of building full CSS layouts has now been translated into Spanish by Ayuda Wordpress - Manual CSS Cajas Coloreadas

Using multiple classes within selectors

Monday, November 5th, 2007

The other day I had to style a menu that looked like this:

While styling the menu, I came across an interesting problem. The Content management system was writing two classes into the same element, and there were times when I needed to use both of these classes for styling.
I had to take two classes like […]