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Styling Forms with CSS

Posted on 8 Jun 2004 · tagged · comments off

While I’ve been using CSS for positioning on most sites I design for a while now, I’ve been using the “forms are tabular data” argument to keep using tables to layout forms. Recently, I decided that as much rationalization as anything and started experimenting on good ways to lay out forms without having to resort [...]

Design Eye for the Usability Guy

Posted on 24 May 2004 · tagged · comments off

Design by Fire: Design Eye for the Usability Guy is a great makeover of one of Jakob Neilsen’s AlertBox columns. While redesigning Jakob’s site has been the target of a number of exercises and at least one contest, this is the first one that really does a great job and then explains the who, what, [...]

All CSS news/weather site

Posted on 13 Jul 2003 · tagged · comments off

Adrian Holovaty (personal site) has launched an all-CSS redesign of the weather section of Lawrence Journal-World’s family of websites. It’s great to see an online news site embrance forward-compatible markup (it’s all done in CSS with semantic markup for the content). While the sites I manage are mostly CSS-powered now, my forthcoming redesign will move [...]

Google AdSense

Posted on 25 Jun 2003 · tagged · comments off

Google AdSense, as advertised, is a great way for smaller websites of all kinds to present targeted advertising and make a few bucks while doing very little work.

Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts

Posted on 25 Nov 2002 · tagged · comments off

“Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts” is a good quick article about using PHP for non-webserver-related scripting needs. I do some of this already, but the article showed me a few new things. Very useful for php developers.

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