Web Form Design - Filling in the blanks
I was lucky enough to see LukeW speak at Webstock. This book is totally worth purchasing! And - wow - look at that cover!
Oh. My. God. This will very quickly become an invaluable tool!
You pass it a single CSS file and either a directory of HTML files or a .txt file listing the URL’s. It then looks at each file in turn and at the end lists all the CSS selectors in your CSS file that aren’t used by any of the HTML files.
It’s not perfect but it’s way better than a messy CSS file!
(thx @dotcode)
During the portion of his talk where he discussed image replacement and its impact on findability, he addressed the white elephant question that has likely occurred to most designers who have used image replacement over the past five years or so: what does Google think of CSS image replacement, anyway? But the part that surprised me is that he actually had an answer: Google’s okay with it, you won’t be penalized for using image replacement properly.
A qualified selector can only contain one < . The element immediately to the left of the < is the target of the selector, everything after is the qualifier. In this case, the style would only apply to anchors that contain an image.
Shaun Inman proposes an addition to the CSS spec: CSS Qualified Selectors
As a child I was interested in all things shiny, and as I grew up I became interested in all things ‘designy’. There are moments in my life where currency, and especially coinage, made an impression on me in different ways, though I’d never actually considered designing coinage until I became aware of the competition.
This is How You Get sIFR to Work
This is the sort of documentation the sIFR website actually needs. If you want to use sIFR on your next project this is the place to start. Very nice work
It’s funny cos it’s true
I met the Walrus is a great bit of animation…
In 1969 a 14 year old armed with a reel to reel recorder managed to have a short interview with the legend that is John Lennon.
This is a short animation set to the original interview. Very much worth watching!
This is a great commercial! Don’t really care what it’s advertising cos it’s all about that song!
Blonde Redhead’s music video features Miranda July
Miranda July is awesome. If you haven’t seen her movie, Me and You and Everyone We Know then you totally should. And while you’re there you should have a look at the web site that accompanies her book of short stories called No One Belongs Here More Than You.