Posts in: Web design
- Low-clutter news site design
- You may or may not know (and you may or may not care) that I started my career in online journalism. So I have a bit of an interest in how news is presented online. To me most news web sites throw way to much at the user. So much so that it’s hard to sort [...] [5 Apr 2005]
- Thoughts on writing effective alt text
- Trenton Moss, of the UK-based usability/accessibility firm Webcredible, writes some guidelines for writing effective alt text [4 Apr 2005]
- The Guide to Black and Hispanic Women in Web Design
- It started this morning with a TrackBack on Eric Meyer’s blog from Dori asking why is Eric, a man doing on a panel about women in web design? Now, to me, it’s such an obvious point. No need to discuss it here. But theeeeeeeen, I saw a comment from the panel’s organizer, Molly Holzschlag, about [...] [21 Feb 2005]
- Random bits
- On Cultured Wino, you may have noticed that all of the images have a thick white border surrounded by a thin black border. How did I do it? Simple: assign padding to the img element. It doesn’t, however, work in every browser. Over at Zonkette: Financially Interested Blogging as it relates to politics. I will say [...] [14 Jan 2005]
- Idea-jackin’: Color schemes from photos
- I stole this idea from Adam Polselli: using photos to generate fresh color schemes. Check out my samples or download some photos and get crackin’ on your own. [9 Oct 2004]
- Outside the box: the
overflowproperty - I made some tweaks to my style sheet switcher article, mostly to clean up some code issues. When I first submitted it, however, much of the content flowed outside of the <pre> tags, and into the right rail. Enter the CSS overflow property. If the content within a box flows beyond the box’ border (as with a really [...] [3 Apr 2004]
