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Those of you who are regular visitors to this site will know that updates have been almost nonexistent over the past year or two. I am working to refresh netcode with some new content that includes several new articles, tutorials and a host of reference material but as work and life take priority, progress is slow at best.
For now the homepage will deliver a feed of articles from sites that I visit on a regular basis. I'll revert to listing the latest content once the new material is uploaded.
Latest Articles
3 Easy and Fast CSS Techniques for Faux Image Cropping
September 15th 2009 @ 9:39pm
This article is a summary of a 3 fast and easy CSS techniques you can use to display only a portion of an image in your content. It is not cropping in a real sense of the word, we are merely hiding the "extra" and displaying only a part of the image we want.
Source: cssglobe.com
Get Ready for HTML 5
September 14th 2009 @ 9:28pm
Ready or not, here it comes. Despite the confusion surrounding its evolution, real-world HTML 5 is right around the corner. Longtime ALA contributor J. David Eisenberg returns to get us all up to speed on the markup we’re about to be writing.
Source: alistapart.com
Style a List with One Pixel
September 8th 2009 @ 11:18am
A one-pixel background image can be a pretty versatile thing. With repeat-x it can be a horizontal line, repeat-y makes a vertical line, and repeat makes it a fill color. Just as a little fun proof of concept, we can use that to create a depth-chart looking unordered list ...
Source: css-tricks.com
Should There Be a Unified Set of Styles For Web Interfaces?
August 24th 2009 @ 10:14pm
If we look at interfaces in operating systems, we’ll see that there is usually a set of unified interface elements that’s shared not only by the operating system’s own tools, but also by third party programs running on that operating system.
For example, Apple’s OS X had a UI called “Aqua” for quite a few years now that gave the buttons and other interface elements a certain look a feel — a liquid look for the buttons and a more metallic/plastic look for the texture of the windows themselves. They’re now moving towards a more aluminum look that will bring it closer to the look and feel of their hardware products.
Until OS X Leopard, there were actually several ‘branches’ of the UI spread around Aqua. There were the plastic windows, the brushes metal windows and the darker aluminum windows. Buttons looked different in each one of these ’styles’. Leopard, the latest release of OS X, has unified the look across the board.
Source: usabilitypost.com
5 Great CSS Techniques To Improve Your Website
July 23rd 2009 @ 5:06pm
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is normally used to separate the style and layout of your HTML files from the actual content. However, few are aware of the added value that CSS can give to your website. Aside from the obvious ones like style standardization, CSS can be utilized to provide other useful stuff not possible with table-based layouts.
Source: cssvault.com