This rather good tutorial explains how to create brilliant 2.0-esque buttons using only text and CSS – NO IMAGES. It shows you how to take advantage of the slow emergence of browsers which understand CSS3 properties such as border radius and the like. Even if you’re not going to use this method, it’s a useful [...]
Best of 2008 – Graphic Design Tutorials
I know that slightlymore is a development based blog, but this new post on Design Shack couldn’t slip past without a mention. It contains a brilliant set of tutorials (well, you’d hope for brilliant after a whole year, wouldn’t you!) from all over the interweb including ‘Magic lighting effect’, ‘Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography’ and [...]
Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid
A rather good article by Wilson Miner on one of my favourite sites, A List Apart. He explains how to do something that print designers have been able to do for millennia, align your type to a baseline grid. This means that the bottoms of lines will always line up in a multi-column layout. Nice.
Better, faster and more robust rollovers with CSS sprites
Learn how to create faster, standards compliant, javascript-less and accessible buttons using only CSS. Even the most hard-core of javascript programmers will admit that actually, they might have done this by mistake. And I promise to show you how, and if you’re lucky explain why.
I’ll even tell you what a sprite is.
Google, Yahoo and Adobe Flash Crawling Experiment – Flash ‘n’ SEO Indexing
Google claims to now understand and index Flash content. Do we believe it? The clever people over at webdesign beach have set up an entire site to test just that. And the cheeky little devils embedded the text in various ways to catch google out.
British Standard for web accessibility – draft
The lovely people over at the British Standards have released a draft version of BS 8878:2009 (Web accessibility – Building accessible experiences for disabled people – Code of practice). It’s open for comments until 31st January 2009 so have a read and let them know what you think!
