Tiffany B. Brown

A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff.

Posts in: Web design

Recommended: Bill Scott’s “Designing the Rich Web Experience”
A look at different types of user interface patterns supported by the YUI library. [16 Jul 2008]
Links for 2007-07-24
The Cascading Style Sheets Working Group has a blog. And they’ve used that blog to announce that CSS 2.1 is a Candidate Recommendation (Via Molly). Finally, researchers are starting to debunk the above-the-fold/scroll myth. You may also want to read Unfolding the Fold. Indiana University researchers show that phishing is easier when you spoof a social connection. The folks [...] [24 Jul 2007]
Internet Explorer on a Mac without a Windows license
I ran into a situation recently where I needed to test a web site in Internet Explorer 6, but the only computer with IE6 that I had reliable access to died a sudden death. I upgraded my own computer to Internet Explorer 7. And because I’m running Windows XP Home, I couldn’t use the Virtual [...] [25 Jun 2007]
Boston, MA: Flashforward 2007
Flash and ActionScript heads listen up: This year’s Flashforward conference will be held in Boston in the fall. Speakers include John Maeda of of the MIT Media Lab and Craig Swann of CRASH!MEDIA. Session topics will include ActionScript 3.0, Flex and Designing with Sound. Flashforward is produced by Lynda.com events. Event details When: September 19th through 21st, 2007 Where: [...] [23 May 2007]
Links for 2007-04-24
Ten Steps to Cell Phone Security Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today Coda web dev software from Panic, makers of Transmit Aptana Rails IDE (Related: my Aptana IDE overview) A List Apart Annual Web Design Survey [24 Apr 2007]
Rounded corners using DOM Scripting and CSS
This is unintentionally similar to Adam Kalsey’s technique. I had the idea and did a proof-of-concept. Then I did a Google search for ‘rounded corners’ and found that he (and about 5011 other folks) had already published something quite similar. I think my method is different enough to warrant a post. And if it isn’t, [...] [29 Nov 2006]
Top web design trends
Consider these observations, not predictions … hell, perhaps not even particularly accurate. What’s catching your eye design-wise? Gradients and reflections This should be obvious to anyone who has been surfing the web in the last couple of years. Gradients and reflections add richness, depth and light to a 2-dimensional design. No surprise that the trend is holding [...] [19 Sep 2006]
Link dump: September 13, 2006
Four bits you’ve probably already seen or heard about: Blind Advocate’s Suit Against Target Allowed to Proceed Could this be the court case that determines whether the American with Disabilities Act also applies to web sites? A similar, previous case against Southwest Airlines was dismissed by a federal judge in Miami about four years ago. Microsoft gives go-ahead [...] [13 Sep 2006]