You want to take control of your marketing efforts, or maybe inform the members of your non-profit, or simple express yourself. A website is a great tool for those needs. Others too.
Setting page type styles
*/ * { margin: 0; padding: 0; } /* This sets the default margin and padding of all page elements to 0 giving nice control over every page element.
….1em 0 .7em 0; /* top margin very small , left and right margins 0, bottom margin a little less than browser default */ } li, li li, li li li, { font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: .5em } /* All the li selectors are included to keep list elements from becoming progressively smaller as they are nested.
…} /*Ordered lists need just a bit more margin */ blockquote { margin-left: 2.2em; padding: .2em; background: #efefef; border-left: 1px dotted #ccc; } /* First, the left margin.
Web design: 15 important research findings you should know
Jens Meiert has posted a “Small selection of web design, usability, and accessibility related results of research, most of them derived from Human Factors International (newsletter). Fortunately, some of them are relatively popular, while others will surely enrich your professional self-conception…”Read them and improve your site.
Dealing with client’s poor requests
A web designer has an obligation to build the best possible site for a client. That’s so obvious that it’s almost a tautology. What happens when the client wants something that a designer thinks is a bad idea? Mostly when non-designers want to over-ride conventions it is just from ignorance. Then again, you’re right that [...]
Effective Website Writing
You have a product or service you want to sell. You need to update your website. What is the single most useful thing you can do to make it better? Do you need “Web 2.0″ whatever that is? Do you need great Flash animations? I don’t know what’s on your site but in at least [...]
Bulletproof Web Design
Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (Paperback) by Dan Cederholm I picked this book up at the WebVisions conference after attending a session of the same name that Dan Cederholm gave. My original intent was just to see Cederholm in action. He is one of the current [...]
Mac OS X: Viruses and Security
Todd Woodward of Symantec has written an thoughtful and pretty balanced piece on the state of Mac security He states the basics facts that there are no current Mac OS X file infecting viruses but that, while the Mac is an inherently safer platform than current versions of Windows, no system is immune. It is [...]