*/ * { 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.

Vitamin Features has a great page demonstrating 15-things-you-can-do-with-yahoo-ui. Slicken up your web apps with these tips and tricks using the Yahoo! User Interface library

I’ve found over the years that my fastest overall solution when offering initial design comps for a new website is to give the client two. I try to make them noticeably different so the client feels that there is a clear choice. But it’s a two option choice.

What’s the best way to annotate a section of text on a web page? There is no perfect solution yet, but lab.arc90.com offers a nice color coordinated text/sidenote solution.
Unobtrusive Sidenotes is a simple mix of Javascript and CSS that makes it ridiculously easy to incorporate sidenotes into your web pages or blogs. It even includes […]

Derek Powazek in A List Apart No. 216:

It’s time we designers stop thinking of ourselves as merely pixel people, and start thinking of ourselves as the creators of experiences. And when it comes to experience on the web, there’s no better way to create it than to write, and write well.

This from Mac OS X Hints
Since Apple developed its “digital hub”, with iLife and now iWork, I have wanted to have a system-wide panel that would let me choose pictures from my iPhoto library without having to open the application.
For example, if I want to add a picture to a TextEdit RTFD document, I had […]

I took some photos of K’s jewelry the other day for her website. While I do charge for my time, I don’t consider myself a professional photographer and generally recommend to my clients to get a real pro. But sometimes it’s just faster to do it myself.
Anyway, I used a couple of cameras, one a […]