Oct 19 2011
I’m really lazy about using <abbr></abbr> tags for acronyms. Most people who read a techy blog like this probably understand them, but surely there are some visitors who don’t where a simple tooltip explanation would be beneficial. Maybe with this easy copy-and-paste resource to reference I’ll actually start doing it. This is an education blog, after all.
Oct 17 2011
Last time we did a group design project, we did a list with functions and we got lots of interesting ideas. Then the other day I linked to a video of Ryan Singer, a tiny part of which inspired the idea of radio buttons with 2-way exclusivity. Then reader Erik Edhagen suggested I do more of those group design project things… so here we are!
Oct 13 2011
What do you think is reasonable page size to try and stay under for a modern web design?
Oct 13 2011
Let’s say you’ve designed a web page and it makes use of a full page background image. You really like the way the site looks with this background image. It looks amazing. But the image is 350k. You’ve decided that, while you know this is heavy, it’s worth it.
But then you start thinking about mobile.
Oct 12 2011
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. The pipe character “|” is by far the most popular page title separator with 47% of the vote and being up against 15 other choices.