Entries Tagged as 'css'
iPhone Surges Web Traffic
When I traded up my Treo 650 for my iPhone one of the biggest differences I noticed (and that’s saying something because there were a lot of big differences, savvy?) was the web browser. The browsing experience, completely apart from download speeds, was like night and day - where I would subconciously dread doing anything [...]
GeekFindr: CSS Builder and the CSS Reference
If you’re like me, which I am, you have a bad memory for remembering every css option there is. You know there’s a bunch of list-types but darned if you can remember lower-roman and decimal. So it’s off to Google for you and a little searching finally turns up all the options you’re looking for. [...]
Site optimization: Actual v. Perceived Speed
The other day I was working with a buddy who was having some difficulty with his site. He had a dark background, but the center columns (with the text) were light. The light background was loading in late because some of the ads on the site were loading in slowly and as a result the [...]
Categories: css · design · optimization · web2.0
GeekFindr: XRAY, peeping on the box model
Thanks to Scott for pointing this one out to me. XRAY is a really nice tool that very quickly can show you the box model for various elements on a site. It works as a bookmarklet, right now it’s Safari and Firefox (or other Mozilla based browsers) only, Mac and Windows, though. It doesn’t work [...]
Geekfindr: XHTML & CSS
I’ve just started messing around a little bit in the htmlPlayground. It’s a pretty interesting site - it let’s you interactively play around with xhtml and css attributes while showing you the output of your efforts.
The site is pretty cool, with several panes that list all the tags, css attributes, a little contextual description [...]
Geekfindr: CSS Layouts
While in general I don’t love using CSS for the broad layout of a site. If the site is simple enough it makes sense and can really simplify the structure of the page. Typically this involves looking around for the latest tricks to columnify something that resolutely doesn’t wish to be made into columns (which [...]
