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...
View ArticleIcons 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...
View ArticleColor 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...
View ArticleEverything 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...
View ArticleFlux, 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...
View ArticleSessions.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...
View ArticleWho’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...
View ArticleFree 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...
View ArticleSuspicious 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...
View ArticleCSS 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....
View ArticlePNG 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....
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAn 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....
View ArticleTwitter-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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAdd 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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleThe 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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