Blog posts tagged "web design"
CSS Naked Day 2009
It's that time of year again, time to strip off your stylesheets and bare all for 1 day. Last year nearly 2,200 sites took part in CSS Naked Day (1,600 in 2007 and 750 in 2006), do you think we can see another increase this year?
# Permalink Posted on Mon 6th April, 2009 in with no comments
Should Arrows be Placed Before Link Text or After?
An interesting article at the Usability Post poses the question "Should Arrows be Placed Before Link Text or After?" I only tend to use arrows with previous / next links where I've always felt that the arrows should point away from the links but there are some interesting views from other people here too...
# Permalink Posted on Thu 30th October, 2008 in with no comments
Robots - To index or not to index?
I'm having a look around the site at the moment and trying to think what I can do to help search engines spider MilkHub better. After reading about sitemap files I've started creating my sitemap.xml and I'll be fleshing that out a bit over the next week or so and pinging that to the search enginges. What else can I do?
# Permalink Posted on Thu 25th September, 2008 in with no comments
cURL Error 26: Failed to open/read local data from file/application
Last night I was battling against cURL Error 26: "Failed to open/read local data from file/application" and eventually found a very simple solution...
# Permalink Posted on Tue 26th August, 2008 in with 6 comments
The Survey 2008
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.
# Permalink Posted on Thu 31st July, 2008 in with no comments
Image Replacement + Google
Dave Shea asked Google the all important question "what does Google think of CSS image replacement, anyway?" to which they answered "Google's okay with it, you won't be penalized for using image replacement properly."
# Permalink Posted on Tue 6th May, 2008 in with no comments
CSS Naked Day 2008
As with last year, MilkHub will be joining hundreds of other websites and getting naked on Wednesday (9th April). Last year over 1600 sites took part, a massive increase from the 750 the year before! I'll be removing all stylesheets for the day and going one step further by disabling all JavaScript too!
# Permalink Posted on Fri 4th April, 2008 in with no comments
PHP: Late Static Bindings
New to PHP 5.3.0 will be late static bindings. Currently you can use the self keyword in PHP to access static methods of the current class, the new static keyword allows you to access static methods through the inheritance tree.
# Permalink Posted on Wed 23rd January, 2008 in with no comments
CSS for poker players
I've just read an excellent explanation of CSS Specificity using a poker analogy and it just makes it so clear to hear it like that. The author covers everything in terms of the basic hands available in a game of poker. This can help explain some of the many mysteries of CSS!
Carl wrote:
Some folks getting on board with CSS tend to get stuck on CSS specificity. The descriptions of which rules override other rules tend to make more sense to programmers than designers, since programmers are used to the concepts of inheritance and overriding properties.
If you're not from the programming world and CSS seems a bit confusing, perhaps this analogy may help clear some concepts up. Think of CSS rules as poker hands. The best hand determines an element's style.
# Permalink Posted on Sat 14th April, 2007 in with 1 comment
Accessible Display: None
Nathan Smith explains the problems with using selector { display: none; } to hide content on a page and suggests a better alternative selector { display: block; overflow: hidden; width: 0; height: 0; }.
# Permalink Posted on Fri 6th April, 2007 in with no comments
CSS Naked Day 2007
MilkHub will be getting naked on Thursday (5th April) along with potentially hundreds of other site owners. Over 750 sites took part last year!
Why?
It's all to show off website accessibility. A user should be able to use your website with no styles on, essentially what a blind user would see (or hear).
How do I get involved?
If you want to show your interest head over to the CSS Naked Day website and signup. Then on Thursday turn off all of the stylesheets on your site for 24 hours.
# Permalink Posted on Mon 2nd April, 2007 in with 1 comment
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