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Category Archives: WebDesign

Media Query Fact Sheet

Something to keep at hand so you can check on all the possibilities and see the measurements. Device Features that can be used in media queries width (min and max)  height (min and max)  device-width  device-height  orientation  aspect-ratio  device-aspect-ratio  color  color-index  monochrome  resolution  scan  grid These can be chained together with the word ‘and’ @media [...]

Useful Links: CSS Layouts, Sliders, 2011

The Future of CSS Layouts. It’s coming and it’s gonna be good. Check out this exciting post by Peter Gasston at .net. What you need to know about the HTML5 Slider Element. There is no slider element in HTML5, the post is talking about the new input type ‘range’ combined with the JQuery function called [...]

Infographic: What Makes Someone Leave a Website?

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Useful links: top 25 books, edu conferences, blue beanie day, semantics, Think Up

The top 25 books for web developers and designers from .net is a good list to check to see if you’re keeping up with the latest. I noticed that several of the 25 are from A Book Apart. That led me to tweet this: Is there some sort of brain implant that would directly feed [...]

Useful links: Responsive images, WordPress gallery

Responsible Responsive Images brings out some points worth pondering. WordPress has added image gallery support. Here’s how to make it work. Can’t wait to find a reason to try it out.

CSS 3 Presentation and Resources

Great resources for each of the 10 Advanced CSS Techniques (You Wish You Knew More About) are listed in the slide deck that Emily Lewis and Jason Nakai used in a talk in a recent Webuquerque presentation. Work with each sites listed in their resources and you will become a complete expert. Keep an eye [...]

Resources for using Media Queries in Dreamweaver 5.5

If you have Dreamweaver 5.5 and are wanting to use the new features for using Media Queries included, here are some resources to get to going. What’s New in Dreamweaver How Media Queries Can Make Designing for Mobile Devices Easier Building Mobile Pages with Dreamweaver CS5.5 Introduction to Media Queries, Pt. 1 Introduction to Media [...]

Review: Designing for Emotion

  product Designing for Emotion, written by Aarron Walter, is another of the brief but valuable books from A Book Apart. If you’ve read other books from A Book Apart you know they are high quality work from knowledgeable writers. This one is no exception. With only 7 chapters and less than 100 pages to [...]

Useful links: media queries, next 6 billion, iOS5

Essential Considerations for Crafting Quality Media Queries from zomigi. Anytime Zoe takes the time to write about CSS, it’s worth reading and this article is particularly timely. The Next 6 Billion. I’m already seeing references to “the next 6 billion” as a phrase that everyone seems to understand and that carries a lot of background [...]

SW Conference on Disability

I’ve been a bit distracted this week, getting organized to present a panel at the Southwest Conference on Disability. This is an ongoing conference that had never focused on web accessibility until last year when Sharron Rush from Knowbility, Inc. gave a keynote. She realized the folks there needed to add more about web accessibility [...]