Posts Tagged ‘CSS’

New CSS3 Properties to Handle Text and Word Wrapping | Impressive Webs. Type is an interesting segment of front end development. It’s always felt like an untamed beast, but that’s gotten better over the past couple of years with the adoption of @font-face and the number of foundries now offering Web fonts. While that handles [...]

CSSrefresh – automatically refresh CSS files. This is a neat little script you can use during development that might make your life easier. It’s sole responsibility is to refresh the CSS of your site at the time the stylesheet is saved, preventing you from having to refresh the browser to see a style update. Check [...]

Performance should be a concern of yours if you do front end work. Speed is of the essence, and it’s (rightfully) becoming a focus. A simple thing to do to boost page speed and performance is to reduce HTTP requests. There’s science behind it, but the generalist view is: the fewer HTTP requests the better. [...]

holmes.css – CSS Markup Detective. This is neat. Holmes is The CSS Markup Detective: Holmes is stand-alone diagnostic CSS stylesheet that can highlight potentially invalid, inaccessible or erroneous HTML(5) markup by adding one class. I like this because it’s in a way passive, but really useful. When I was really getting into Web Standards, I [...]

There’s quite a fascinating discussion going on via blog posts within the past few days. It’s not too often that we get to observe a technical discussion surrounding CSS, but when it happens, it’s good. Like nearly all discussions with CSS from the past year or two, the underlying thought processes isn’t completely new, but [...]

I’m becoming increasingly comfortable with the idea that at least some form of style guide, whether on a team or individually, is an extremely important part of the process. It helps with everything from readability to quality control and especially helps a team become that much more cohesive.

QuirksBlog: CSS vendor prefixes considered harmful. See also: Not Supported by Jonathan Snook. It’s issues like these that have me concerned about whether or not we’re ready for CSS3. Sure, writing a few extra styles isn’t really that big of a deal, right? Yes and no. We’re coming into an age that is accepting a [...]

One of the goals I challenged myself with for 2010 was to redesign Monday By Noon. I’m really happy to say that inspiration struck early, and I was able to launch the revamp much sooner than originally planned. I’d like to share with you the process I went through in designing the latest version of MBN, and also request that you check out the latest and greatest design.

We’re all smitten with CSS3. It’s reinvigorated that sense of newness that CSS and Web Standards brought our way just a few years ago. We’re able to more easily replicate the set of design standards that has become nearly universal much faster than before with just a few CSS declarations. There are a number of CSS3 rules I’d be writing for each and every project, but I’m just not sure it’s as ready for prime time as many designers are making it out to be.

Flexible Web Design by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater is a book on modern Web design focusing on liquid and elastic CSS layouts.