Form feeds function feeds form
August 19, 2004 @ 11:45
Dave says: [R]eactions to the two successive redesigns of this site over the past few months have been insightful. I believe they go a long...
Sponsored links
August 4, 2004 @ 10:52
Today I noticed something interesting in an article on Anandtech. Some of the words in the text, as you can see from the first picture...
Changes and language switching
July 27, 2004 @ 13:15
I haven't been all that happy with this site for quite a while... for several reasons. One is that for an extended period of time...
Well designed weblogs
February 16, 2004 @ 22:30
Still a lot to learn, Well designed weblogs (via b-o-k)....
Neat trick
November 26, 2003 @ 14:07
A very neat CSS trick. A standards compliant browser disregards CSS properties that it doesn't know. Luckily IE isn't all that standards compliant, so that...
Multiple versions of IE in one Windows installation
November 9, 2003 @ 16:42
Could it be? Could it really be that someone figured out how to run several different versions of Internet Explorer on one and the same...
Webdesign goodness
October 24, 2003 @ 12:53
It's been a good week for CSS related webdesign goodness. Previously I already pointed to the great Listamatic. Zeldman then pointed to Tantek's great Mid...
Listamatic
October 14, 2003 @ 11:51
I've been thinking about some redesign around here lately and Listamatic now figures high on my reference list for future work. Spit-shine polish for CSS...
Background tweak
September 27, 2003 @ 18:18
Taking a directions from Inflight Correction and taking the next right at Fawny, I ended up at Wow Web Designs. I've been looking at the...
Interesting redesign
August 22, 2003 @ 11:59
Anja redesigned Flickwerk, her weblog. I really like the idea behind the design (isn't that the *cough* design philosophy?), which is to have a whole...
Demons
July 8, 2003 @ 14:34
Demons are known to lurk in shadows. There is indeed substantial evidence (mostly from small children, however) for such situations. [...] Additionally, some people...
Floats
June 26, 2003 @ 09:40
Martin has been redesigning (I like it, much more readable, although for my taste the dates are a bit too big and blocky right now)...
Keep it liquid
June 14, 2003 @ 14:57
There are two types of websites. Those which have a fixed width layout and those which adjust the layout automatically to the width of the...
Questions
June 3, 2003 @ 10:10
Zeldman: These are the questions CNET and other news organizations -- and you -- should be asking....
Styling the HR tag revisited
March 13, 2003 @ 18:23
I wrote about styling the HR tag before, but there's more to it than I knew then. Marek Prokop has the most elaborate tutorial, but...
Bork!
February 14, 2003 @ 15:56
From the Opera press release: bq. Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft's MSN portal targeted Opera users, by purposely provided them with a...
Hover
February 12, 2003 @ 16:28
I've become so used to links changing their appearance when hovering over them that it has become sort of disconcerting when they don't. Is it...
Pixels
February 7, 2003 @ 09:42
Was it Zeldman who at some point decried that the only way to get something working across browsers is to use pixels? I'm starting to...
Boxmodel
February 6, 2003 @ 16:08
If Tantek's boxmodel hack made you believe that IE6's boxmodel was somehow better than IE5's then you're wrong. The IE6 boxmodel is broken so damn...
Breadcrumbs
February 6, 2003 @ 10:25
On a site I'm designing I've just implemented a breadcrumb navigational tool. (Breadcrumbs I hear you ask... Just like in leaving a breadcrumb trail to...
Saved the day
February 4, 2003 @ 23:19
How did we ever live without Sane CSS Sizes?...
Yowzers
January 6, 2003 @ 17:04
Brad Choate's got big plans for the new year. I'll be happy if I can do about 10% of what he's got planned on my...
The Fast and the Furiously Slow
January 6, 2003 @ 07:14
Slashdot points to an article that explains why Internet Explorer sometimes displays websites blazingly fast and why it sometimes is so damn slow. Turns out...
Skewed statistics
January 5, 2003 @ 16:03
The online banking website of my bank works best in Internet Explorer 5+. The site kind of works in Opera 6 and works okay, but...
Copy cat
January 1, 2003 @ 17:27
Pirated Sites is a site that I occasionally visit. An interesting question: when is using another site's design as a template for your own site...
Another IE display bug
December 18, 2002 @ 10:28
Ugh... this is a particularly stupid display bug in IE and one that I've bumped into before. So now I finally know why IE will...
IE6win bug
December 12, 2002 @ 12:37
Well, I bumped into a serious bug in how IE6win renders percentage based layouts (Tantek mentions related problems here). Simply put, if you use percentages...
Absolutely relative positioning
November 18, 2002 @ 10:57
Doing CSS based layouting yourself? Then you should have a look at A List Apart's latest article: Flexible Layouts. Very insightful for an autodicatic webdesigner,...
Opera fix
November 5, 2002 @ 23:06
I just tried visiting Tech Central Station with Opera and got a server error, which amongst other things said: If you are using Opera 6.0...
Wired redesign
October 11, 2002 @ 14:17
Ooh! Wired redesigned! Not only that, they did it W3C standards compliant. Well, almost actually... if you run the site through the Validator a couple...
Pop-up windows
October 2, 2002 @ 12:32
Exactly!...
Free University not so freely accessible
September 25, 2002 @ 15:52
Ouch... the Free University (that is the other Amsterdam university and not the one where I work) has redesigned their website. Taste is debatable, but...
Spooky
September 12, 2002 @ 16:30
Hover over the icons in the top right corner of this page. Turn up the volume of your speakers a bit if you're not yet...
What is a web page?
June 25, 2002 @ 11:53
I just can't stop thinking about this one thing Owen Briggs remarked in a mail: "We haven't defined what a webpage 'looks' like yet." We...