Very interesting debate – should you use the h1 tag for logos on your page, or exclusively for the main title of your page? You can vote using twitter, which is very cool. Oh, by the way, I went for #h1logo.
15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues
As the title suggests, this page has links to 15 jQuery plugins to help out with cross-browser issues. Including rounded corners in our friend Internet Explorer, avoiding CSS hacks (which is something close to my heart) and vertically centreing elements.
isittheweekendyet.co.uk
Quickly find the answer to one of the most important questions of all – is it the weekend yet?! It’s completely pointless, made by yours truely, and so easy to use that you just have to load the page to find the answer.
Sprite Optimization
I know, I know, we’re english but the title is Americanised. But it’s worth it, because this post on Mezzoblue explains beautifully how to optimise your site bandwidth-wise by putting loads of graphics into a single image and using CSS to position and clip them. It’s kinda similar to my post Better faster rollovers with [...]
jQuery 1.3 is released!
After (for me atleast) a long wait, jQuery 1.3 has finally been released. It looks very promising and includes quite a number of cool new features including a new selector engine known as Sizzle. I will be writing a post about the new release in the very near future, so watch this space!
How to motivate creative people
Mark McGuinness has written a very inspirational eBook about how to motivate creative people. It explains how creative people need different things to make them motivated, how a creative environment is going to be more motivational than money and even what Iggy Pop can teach you about management. And the best part? It’s free!
Effective browser support
Paul Boag has written an excellent article about why you shouldn’t have a bunch of ‘supported browsers’, you should write clean HTML and CSS with NO HACKS. Then more advanced features like rounded corners in CSS3 for browsers that support it. And the stupid browsers will ignore the enhancements, but still be usable and accessible.
CSS SuperScrub
The description of CSS SuperScrub from the site says: This tool can significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names. And it’s not wrong.
Progressive enhancement with CSS3
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 [...]
