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Where in the World is Christopher?

Today starts the day of a guest blogging stint I’m doing over at Sessions.edu. Their new-ish blog is geared for design students and has already covered a broad range of topics. Later this week, I’ll be...

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Icons and Dingbats

Author and Web designer Dan Cederholm has a new home for his priced-to-go icon sets. Check out the handsome new digs at IconShoppe. Former Tallahassee resident and fontographer, Fonthead, has released...

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Color Shades

During my brief talk at SXSW Interactive, I mentioned that you could use color shades. Color shades are small PNG images filled with a black or white color set to a certain opacity which can be used...

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Everything In Flux

When I design for for my own personal site, I am excited. I love the freedom that such an assignment provides as I head down one path for a personal identity and then another. In this design process, I...

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Flux, Part 2: The First Couple of Days After

After pulling the switch on the design, the general reaction to the design has been positive. Which is really good since I was worried that it might be too purple. At least, I’m out of my “green...

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Sessions.edu Blog Post Round Up

Here are a few of the posts I made for Sessions.edu’s blog for design students: What are Microformats Have you wondered what microformats are, and why we should bother with them? The Prevalence of...

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Who’s In the Mix?

I’m packing up and getting ready to head to Las Vegas for Microsoft’s MIX07, dubbed a 72-hour conversation with “some of the most successful and innovative practitioners on the Web”. This is the first...

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Free Copy of Releasing CSS

Releasing CSS: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IE7 covers designing with CSS for Microsoft’s latest and greatest: Internet Explorer 7. The fine publisher, O’Reilly, wants to distribute a few...

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Suspicious Death Scene Under Investigation

A new design blog, A Brief Message, launched today. Keeping guest editorials to under 200 words, the blog is aimed at featuring deep thoughts about design-related issues from people of all walks of...

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CSS Floats to Display Columns in Any Order

With my publisher’s permission, I’m sharing the following excerpt from my latest book, CSS Cookbook, Second Edition, which discusses a neat trick for designing multi-column layouts in any order....

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PNG Transparency for Internet Explorer (IE6 and Beyond)

Like GIFs and JPEGs, PNG images are ideal for web use. Like GIFs, the PNG is great for displaying small images with few colors, like logos and icons. Also, PNGs sport a few advantages over GIF images....

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The Dave Shea Interview

Are you into Web design? Then you might have heard of a little site by Dave Shea called CSS Zen Garden. By changing the look-and-feel, but keeping the same markup, Dave Shea and designers all over the...

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The Web Standards Project Book Initiative

Still recovering from my month-long World Tour (more on that later) which wrapped up in Austin for the annual SXSW Interactive conference. This, I believe, is my fifth year attending SXSW, but it was...

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An Event Apart Making You Smarter and Better Looking

I did a double-take when looking over the speaker profiles for An Event Apart’s upcoming events. Did you see the difference as well? Here’s a side-by-side comparison to better illustrate the point....

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Twitter-Sized An Event Apart Presentation Summaries

I’m not one that you might call a copious note taker. I burn out quickly listening to presentations and tend to focus on note taking rather than digesting what is being said. Rather than long notes, I...

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The Cindy Li Interview

One of the first thing you get to know about Cindy Li is her tendency to get to the point of things. Be it her work, playtime, her relationships, she cuts to the quick while I’m just starting to get...

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The Graphic Design Realization

Back in 1998 in a movie theatre that doesn’t exist anymore, I looked at a movie poster. It’s the moment I realized there is such a thing as graphic design. As a Batman fan—more so a DC Comics fan—the...

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Add GIF Animations to Your Next HTML Email Newsletter

When I joined the board of AIGA Cincinnati, one of my duties I quickly found out was to help send out the email newsletters to our members. I won’t go into the long process of how to design an HTML...

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Apple to Publish Newspapers

According to The Telegraph, Apple is in talks with newspaper publishers to make an “iTunes for newspapers”: Apple is believed to have created a suite of software to make it easier and cheaper for...

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The Need for a Responsive Web Image Format

Images made the first web boom. If it wasn’t for IMG, a once non-standard bit of HTML proposed by Marc Andresson and put into the relic Mosiac browser, we probably would still be buying encyclopedias...

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