Infographic by: Shane Snow
What’s the difference between a Web Designer and a Web Developer?
April 13, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Design for your needs
April 13, 2011, by A. U. Crawford
Web design is a very fluid art. It’s constantly changing and that makes it hard to stay fresh. Don’t fall into the copycat trap. When you are learning web design it’s common to look to other sites for inspiration. Not a bad idea, but use this to learn usability concepts not design paradigms. Continue reading
Agile Web Design
November 24, 2010, by A. U. Crawford
Agile Design Dynamic Content Box
A good agile web design will be flexible. Able to expand and contract as information changes. I often see website sites that are beautiful but are very rigid. Meaning you can’t add too much text to the page or too many images or the page will overflow in a non fluid way. Continue reading
Worlds smallest readable computer font
November 16, 2010, by A. U. Crawford
As reported on many other blogs this is the worlds smallest “Readable” font. Designed by computer science professor Ken Perlin, TINY FONT was created because of the growing popularity of tiny screens (smart phones). Continue reading
Degrading Gracefully
November 8, 2010, by A. U. Crawford
CSS3 is awesome. While IE is a bit behind again, the new IE9 will be out sooner then you think. Start using CSS3 now and when IE9 arrives then you will be ready. The key is to make sure the site degrades gracefully. Continue reading
Min-Width, Max-Width
June 8, 2010, by A. U. Crawford
IE still has problems with max-width, min-width, max-height, min-height.
to get them you just use this css technique.
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ie7 and ie6 inline-height bug
February 11, 2010, by A. U. Crawford
IE7 or below has this bug, where a 1px margin is added to the bottom of the an element, which has inline-height declared.
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IE7 and IE6 Input Button Width Bug
December 16, 2009, by A. U. Crawford
IE determines the width of an input button based on the length of the value.
So an input like:
has a padding right and left of say 8px, but
has a padding left and right of 12px.
Old Timey Movie Credits
December 13, 2009, by A. U. Crawford
A while back I had a need to create a price list. What I wanted to have the items on the left and the prices on the right with dots connecting the two. Like old timey movie credits.
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No, tables are not dead!!!
November 19, 2009, by A. U. Crawford
I know, everybody hates tables. I also hated tables once. Now that CSS has taken over the duties of layout and design of websites, tables get a bad rap. Poor tables, what did tables ever do to anyone? Continue reading