“So the next time you find yourself grumbling about declaring the same thing four times, once for each browser, remember that the pain is temporary. It’s a little like a vaccine—the shot hurts now, true, but it’s really not that bad in comparison to the disease it prevents.”
“It’s like the ‘Wizard of Oz’ moment when they go from black and white to color.”
A beautiful little tool from Pixelmatrix Design that lets you code and test CSS in real time.
“The material that’s the most important for the users’ goals or your business goals should be above the fold. Users do look below the fold, but not nearly as much as they look above the fold.”
Jakob Nielsen, Scrolling and Attention
I’ve thought the same many times, especially when I come across sites like this and this that encourage people to disregard the fold entirely.
“Create too many paths and your site turns into a maze.”
Shaun Inman’s fantastic new home page. (via strake)
Jeffrey Zeldman and John Rainsford have launched Support Web Standards, a new little e-commerce shop with some excellent screen-printed posters, buttons, and stickers focussed on web standards evangelism.
If you’re a web developer and haven’t given Sass a try yet, get into it ASAP. It a Ruby gem that abstracts CSS — it empowers the CSS with functions and variables, saves a ton of development time, and even makes it easier to be more consistent with your designs. Here’s a sample of a theme I’m working on which shows off some of the functionality.
Version 3 brings a new syntax to SASS, converting the language to a CSS superset, meaning it actually looks like CSS now (one of my biggest complaints of SASS 2). The new format is called SCSS (Sassy CSS) and is built off the CSS3 spec.
If you want to give it a shot, just install with:
gem install haml --preA Way Back takes a fresh look at default font stack, first citing statistics about pre-installed fonts, then making recommendations for popular sites like Yahoo and Facebook.
Aaron Staton and Rich Sommer checking out Tumblr on the set of Mad Men.
Very friendly Monster Friends poster series available from Familytree. The Kracken, Yeti, Loch Ness, & Sasquatch, by Alex Pearson, ...
This article is specifically about pixel “density”, a relatively new concern to digital designers. In the mobile environment, screen resolution has...
