Microsoft Listened
We all complained, and Microsoft listened to the community: IE8 will now render in IE8-mode by default, and “developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request...
View ArticleSkinning(/Leatherworking)
I’m (finally) working on the new theme. It’s obviously a work-in-progress, so just appreciate the effort for now. I’m starting with the default WordPress theme by Michael Heilemann. I’m not going to...
View ArticleThe New Blog
I made myself sit down today and finish work on the blog design. I am very happy with how it came out. This design is a hybrid, pulling elements from some of better-looking sites and blogs. The...
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The W3C Sucks
“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.” If you want to remain the standard-setting body for the web, promise new recommendations, never deliver. A decade ago,...
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Work Pattern: Designing Web Sites
The premise of Design Patterns is that similar problems have similar solutions. In the same vein, I propose this Work Pattern a set of common steps I use when I create a web site, and maybe you can...
View ArticleDo You “Designed By”?
A debate has cropped up over “designed by” links, those (hopefully) little links a designer puts on a page to take credit and get themselves some traffic and customers. On the one side, Pat Dryburgh...
View ArticleOrganizing CSS
Looking at WordPress themes usually makes me cringe. It’s as if there was a memo on semantic markup and the community of WP developers didn’t get it. Some themes waste kilobytes of HTML source on...
View ArticleUser Interface: Be Nice!
A short post for a busy week. I just downloaded the Spore Creature Creator, and this file showed up on my desktop: 792248d6ad421d577132c2b648bbed45_scc_trial_na.exe. Why not “Spore Creature Creator...
View ArticleWP Plugin: Better Search Widget
Today I upgraded from WordPress 2.3.3 to 2.6.1. I’m such a late adopter sometimes. I had to go through and repeat a few hacks. For example, 2.3.x didn’t allow you to do get_sidebar($name), so I’d...
View ArticleStop Supporting IE6
As a community, as a whole, web designers and developers need to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6. Now. Completely. I’ve been thinking a lot about browser compatibility as I’ve been working on...
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