For this round of redesign, I focused on two things.. simplicity and external content. With the last site, I had enough of all the spliced images, excessive shadows, and hacky html and CSS to pull it off. So this time I’ve stuck with a subtle color scheme, plenty of whitespace, and (practically) no images. I […]
After some #IEroot inspiration at positioniseverything.net and some help from here, I’ve come up with yet another approach to paritioning CSS rules based on the browser. Using this technique you can get rid of the * html hack and the need for a separate IE 7 CSS file.
I liked how positioniseverything suggested using conditional comments […]
You have used firebug. I’ve been an avid firebug user the minute I first heard about it — starting with the initial appeal of CSS inspection, then integrated error reporting, and then getting hooked on the interactive javascript console. Firebug .3 was a big step up from the built in DOM inspector, but still it […]
Whew, Lotusphere is pretty big, bigger than I expected. Seeing 6000+ people in one room makes you realize that 6000 is a lot of people. I’m having a great time here so far and we are getting pretty good feedback from customers.
… wait, let me step back a second. I have been working on Activities […]
I’ve come to realize that in user interfaces (whether digital or physical) its often the subtleties that make most of the difference. The best of these are details which you use without realizing or without prior knowledge. Simple examples are right clicking on an object to see what you can “do” with it or […]