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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

Naming id’s with numbers

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

I was recently sent this question:
I am trying to apply a div to a page and it will not show when I use the name “420wide” but it will if I use “wide420″. Why is this? Is this rule documented somewhere?
The simple answer is that the ID name must be unique in a document and […]

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 […]

The Evolving Web - A Pace Layering view of the development of the Web and the W3C

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The Web today is very different to what it was in 1994, when the World Wide Web Consortium was established. Roger Hudson’s article - The Evolving Web - looks back at the early history of the Web and uses Pace Layering theory to consider some recent developments and the role of the W3C in the […]

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 […]

Anatomy of a comment

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

The Australian Museum web team recently began looking at commenting. We wanted to see what sort of items could appear in a comment.
After a look around a wide variety of sites, we came up with a list of possible aspects that could be included in a comment:

Author name - who wrote the comment
Authors url - […]

“Definition lists - misused or misunderstood?” - now in French

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Definition lists - misused or misunderstood has now been translated into French by Rodrigue Hunel and the developpez.com team - Les listes de définitions : mal utilisées ou mal comprises?

An evening with Molly Holzschlag

Friday, January 25th, 2008

An event not to be missed if you are in or around Melbourne.
Event: An evening with Molly HolzchlagDate: Wednesday 6 FebruaryTime: 6.30pm for 7pm startCity: MelbourneVenue: Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place Melbourne 3000 VICCost: FREE
Description:
Come along and take part in an informal Q&A session with one of the industries leading educators and best-practice advocators.
Molly E. […]

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 […]