Tag: webdesign

CSS Mastery From Santa Giveaway

Posted on by Michael Bishop

Dear Santa,

Remember way back when I was first starting out cooking, and I asked you for a copy of Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking. I was just a hack kid in the kitchen, desperate to learn more about the science behind the art that had all but consumed me. You quickly obliged, and I took that knowledge on a journey that I wouldn’t trade for anything.
Now, that I’ve grown, my interests and profession are taking another turn, and again I turn to you to bring me a book that will do for me what Harold’s did for me back then. Andy Budd wrote CSS Mastery, yet another brilliant insight into the “science” behind the “art” that has taken me onto my most current journey. I’ve muddled my way through so far, but I trust that with the guidance this book offers, I can excel in this medium in a similar manner that I did with my last discipline.

Michael

P.S. If you happen to find room in your bag to add a new Mac Book Pro and a 20” cinema display, I promise to be a really, really, good boy.

Typeface and the Web

Posted on by Michael Bishop

An interestingpost and comments regarding type face and web design. While I struggle to learn the basics, and don’t really notice the difference in types, I continue to read on the subject, and found a useful on-line tool to compare fonts, and the many other options that CSS allows in setting typography. I really am trying to approach my learning of web design from a usability aspect, vs a pure aesthetic one, which typsetting can have a huge effect on. Still a long road, to say the least.

CSS Reboot Spring ’06

Posted on by Michael Bishop

I cobbled this design out of something else I was working on, to break out of the constraints of using someone else’s work, but intend on something extrordinary for the site, especially the oft-not used entry page. So I signed up for the CSS Reboot as a means of having a tangible goal, as well as some pressure to knock one out of the park. So things won’t change much around here until May, but check back then for a whole new miklb.com.

Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview

Posted on by Michael Bishop

Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 PreviewI never thought I’d herald the release of an IE product, and after testing it I may not be so interested, but if you’ve ever sat up until 5am trying to hack IE bugs in a completely valid site while your client in California keeps saying, “In IE…”, then the prospects of some of those bugs being gone is well, worth the annoucement.
Annouced last July on the developer’s blog, these bugs are supposed to be addressed in beta 2.

  • Peekaboo bug
  • Guillotine bug
  • Duplicate Character bug
  • Border Chaos
  • No Scroll bug
  • 3 Pixel Text Jog
  • Magic Creeping Text bug
  • Bottom Margin bug on Hover
  • Losing the ability to highlight text under the top border
  • IE/Win Line-height bug
  • Double Float Margin Bug
  • Quirky Percentages in IE
  • Duplicate indent
  • Moving viewport scrollbar outside HTML borders
  • 1 px border style
  • Disappearing List-background
  • Fix width:auto

And I’ll say a bug I spent several hours hacking last night is fixed in beta2. Good sign (it was a lesser known a:hover background sticking bug, for those who care).

Like I said, maybe a little less cursing now.