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October 23, 2003

What size is that font?

I have come across another favelet of good use. Ever wanted to know the rgb of color on a website or know what size font is being used. Look no further than Pixy’s new Cascaded Styles of ‘+document.title+’

Cascaded Styles

Favelet made by pixy

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’);w.document.close();var wp=w.document.getElementById(‘props’);Ev(document.childNodes);function ES(e){var o,s=”,nm=e.nodeName;var p=w.document.getElementById(‘prop’).value;if(e.id)nm+=’#’+e.id;if(e.className)nm+=’.’+e.className;if(document.defaultView)s=document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(e,null).getPropertyValue(p);else if(e.currentStyle)s=eval(‘e.currentStyle.’+p);o=nm+’
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‘;wp.innerHTML+=o;w.document.close()}function Ev(ch){var i,e;if(ch)for(i=0;iList computed (cascaded) styles favelet. Just type in the property you are looking for and hover over the page. It will give you a tree breakdown of the property from each element.

Posted by Blake at 04:12 PM

October 22, 2003

Alist Apart Opens Doors

After many weeks A List Apart re-opens its doors again with three great kickoff articles. If you are looking for a better way to do tabs in CSS than read Doug Bowman’s article. His article offers a great tutorial on creating accessible navigation tabs. Joe Clark’s article explains the ins and outs of FIR and Dan Benjamin offers an easy way to keep pages fresh.

Overall, I would say A List Apart is the best resource for learning and keeping up on the latest trends in web design. Bookmark and learn from the industry leaders.

Posted by Blake at 09:10 AM

October 16, 2003

Design Practices

Heidi P. Adkisson has launched a new site about Design Practices. There are some very interesting stats and research that has been done. For example, “60% of the websites tested had the logo linked to Home plus explicit ‘Home’ link at the top of the page”. There are more stats like that. Now you can back up your arguments with clients when they want to use a global search engine for their navigation.

Posted by Blake at 12:46 PM

Semantics in HTML?

Are there really semantics in HTML? There are but maybe it should be titled differently like “document structure”. Anyway, I finished giving a quick presentation on the topic. The goal with “document structure” is to use the HTML tags that are for intended for page structure and CSS should do the rest. It makes things simple and kind.

Posted by Blake at 12:40 PM

October 01, 2003

Ibocity cut in half

I just finished completing a new face lift for ibocity.com which involved a re-write of the each page from HTML 4.0 into XHTML 1.0/CSS code. The perl code was optimized by Garth Hill making it more streamline.

This is only phase one of the project but the preliminary savings are amazing. We did remove some useless features, but we also added some too, nonetheless ibocity 3.0 directory on disk weighed 877 MB, the new ibocity 4.0 directory on disk only weighs 259MB. These numbers may be skewed some, but you can notice a difference already in the load time of each page. Unfortantly you can’t get in to see the system with out a login in but, the HTML on the login page went from 8.7KB to 3.15KB.

Posted by Blake at 09:27 AM
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