Posts Tagged ‘Tips’
Google’s “Let’s Make the Web Faster” Movement
Google’s Let’s Make the Web Faster and Page Speed Firebug add-on can help you optimize your Web pages.
Improving Your Process: Faster Front End Development
Time is very important in Web design. Here are a few tips to keep that time to a minimum, allowing for budgeted experimentation and polish.
Improving Your Process: Thinking More About Your CSS
It’s important to constantly improve yourself, even when you’ve become completely comfortable with it. CSS is a simple technology, but putting proper thought behind it can make a stylesheet beautiful.
Improving Your Process: The Browser Gauntlet
Having an effective browser test suite for Web design should be a terribly important part of your process.
Fear not. I Have Conquered IE6, and You Can Too
Internet Explorer 6 should not be abandoned. Instead you should plan for IE6 and gracefully degrade.
Improving Your Process: Combating Burnout
Getting burnt out at work is possibly the worst thing to happen for any creative. Here are some things I try to do as soon as I discover I may be burnt out.
Raising the Bar with Adaptive Templates
A recent project got me thinking about combining Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds with CSS constants.
Improving Your Process: Client Communication
Although I’ve tried to optimize communication patterns in as many ways as possible, I’ve found that (like Web design and development) experience is the best thing you can do. Use your experience to alter the way you do things to improve your communication process both internally as well as with clients. Effective communication leaves much more time to do what we love to do, create.
Working with Background PNGs and Internet Explorer 6
Using PNG images as backgrounds can be very helpful and useful, but there are some things to keep in mind when working with Internet Explorer 6.
Improving Your Process: CSS Techniques Part 2
Nearly a year ago, I jotted down a few CSS techniques that I use day to day. Some tips included controlling browser defaults, avoiding box model headaches, stylesheet organization, and using a color glossary. I find myself using many of these techniques a year later, but had some updates that might make the lives of some a bit easier.
