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In Introducing Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Product Family, Adobe made some announcements important to educators. First, they are moving milestone releases such as CS3, CS4, and CS5 to a two year cycle. The in between years will get updates like the just announced CS5.5. Here’s what they are doing to the web suite. For Web … Continue reading “Big News from Adobe”
A couple of preview-type articles on what we can expect to see happening with CSS 3 are fascinating, even if not practical for immediate use. CSS Template Layout Module and The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model. Introducing Dreamweaver CS 5 at the Adobe site gives you some highlights of the new Dreamweaver features in Creative … Continue reading “Useful links: CSS 3, DW CS5”
Two articles on using SVG for backgrounds by Shelley Powers are at A List Apart this week. Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I and Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II. You learn when to use it, where it works, how it works, tools to build it, and … Continue reading “Useful links: SVG, location aware, video”
product A review by Web Teacher of Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, Video Edition (includes Handcrafted CSS book and Handcrafted CSS: Bulletproof Essentials DVD) (rating: 5 stars) Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm with Ethan Marcotte is from New Riders (2010). It’s a beautiful book designed by Cederholm himself. Most of … Continue reading “Review: Handcrafted CSS”
I’m straying off topic to talk balloons. This time of the year in central New Mexico is all about hot air. I took this photo yesterday standing in my driveway in my pajamas. People willingly get up at 4:30 AM to go to a mass ascension at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. If you’ve never … Continue reading “Useful links: Hot air, create video, UDI, CSS”
In Easy Multi-Column Designs Using CSS 2.1 Display Properties, Project VII provides us with a free tutorial on using CSS display properties (specifically display: table properties) to create multi-column layouts. CSS table display allows us to create a perfectly stable multi-column design, with a flexible middle column and fixed-width sidebars, while avoiding the pitfalls and … Continue reading “New Tutorial from Project VII”
Diagnostic Styling Reloaded from Jens Meiert provides a bookmarklet that uses CSS to highlight accessibility issues on a web page. It points out things like deprecated elements, layout tables, missing alt attributes, style attributes and more. Peachpit Interview with Zoe M. Gillenwater talks about Zoe’s new book Flexible Web Design and all sorts of web … Continue reading “Useful Links: Diagnostic CSS, Zoe Gillenwater interview, and a couple of interesting beta releases”