Transcending CSS | The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke
‘A manifesto to transcend the web of today.’
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- Introduction: Dave Shea
- Foreword: Molly E. Holzschlag
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Available in eight languages.
Available in eight languages.
We just can’t stay off the road. Two years since our last road trip when we drove an RV from Phoenix to Minneapolis, we’re again heading back West and this time we’re Looking for Yogi.
Yesterday, Mike Davidson announced the sweeping redesign of msnbc.com article pages. The redesign is especially brave from a traditional news outlet business perspective as it emphasizes readability and enjoyment over page views. But I do have a minor gripe with its typography and set out to find a solution.
Yesterday Microsoft announced the third Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9. I’ve been using this preview for a while, testing how their newest browser stands up to the examples I’ve designed for Hardboiled Web Design.
After spending weeks searching for a contract that was simple for me and my clients to understand, in 2008 I wrote my own and published it on 24ways for anyone to use. Now it’s time for an update.
It seems like months ago (it was) when I handed over my design templates for the redesign of CannyBill. Since then, the canny chaps have been working hard to implement the design and @RellyAB has been working her strange magic on their copy. Yesterday the new CannyBill site went live.
Want to learn from the best about jQuery and Designing for Mobile with CSS3? Places are still available on For A Beautiful Web workshops: Designing for Mobile with CSS3 with Dan Rubin and jQuery for Designers with Remy Sharp.
An archive of blog entries since 2004 on subjects including CSS, web standards, accessibility, design and development.
Juan Pablo Bravo:
Infographic showing 600 Hanna-Barbera Characters. The characters are shown in chronological order, with their respective names in english and spanish (of the TV series and the characters).
Mule Design Studio
A PSD is a painting of a website. We don’t spend weeks or months understanding a client’s complex needs and issues to make them paintings.
Don't say I never told you so.
I gave a presentation at entitled Highly Maintainable, Efficient, and Optimized CSS. I tried to squeeze as many tips as I could in to cover how to create CSS that is well organized and readable while still keeping efficiency in mind.
Contains some fantastic resources.
Catch Andy Clarke on DVD in three new For A Beautiful Web titles covering topics including “Designing with CSS”, “Designing with Microformats”; and “Designing web accessibility”.
Published by New Riders and available from Peachpit and Amazon.
