Redesigning A List Apart using CSS should have been easy. It wasn’t. The first problem was understanding how CSS actually works. The second was getting it to work in standards-compliant browsers. A journey of discovery.
Topic: CSS
This HTML Kills: Thoughts on Web Accessibility
Activist Jim Byrne sounds off on the importance of web accessibility, and the difficulty of doing it right.
Separation Anxiety: The Myth of the Separation of Style from Content
The separation of style from content has long been the web’s holy grail. But is it a myth? Stein claims that when design communicates, style and content are inextricably wed.
Daemon Skins: Separating Presentation from Content
There ’s more than one way to skin a website. Newhouse demonstrates creative scripting techniques that give viewers and designers the control they crave.
DOM Design Tricks III: Using Events in the Document Object Model
Be a code wizard … or, just look like one. In Part 3 of the DOM Design Tricks tutorial series,Eisenberg shows us how to dynamically change text on a page. The theory, examples, and scripts will work in Mozilla and IE5.
DOM Design Tricks II
Part 2 of this exclusive ALA series shows how to use the DOM’s events and nodes to create nifty interactive menus and more. Design cool stuff while learning about emerging standards.
DOM Design Tricks
In Part One of a spankin’ new series, Eisenberg shows you, step by step, how to use the W3C Document Object Model (DOM), Style Sheets, and JavaScript to pull off nifty design tricks and add value to your site’s content.
Meet the DOM
We’ve read about it. We’ve waited for it. Now we can actually start to use it. In this gentle introduction to the W3C Document Object Model, new ALA contributor Eisenberg shows how to make friends with the DOM, and use its power to manipulate dynamic HTML elements on the web.
A Dao of Web Design
Web designers often bemoan the malleable nature of the web, which seems to defy our efforts at strict control over layout and typography. But maybe the problem is not the web. Maybe the problem is us. John Allsopp looks at web design through the prism of the Tao Te Ching, and decides that designers should let the web be the web.
Fear of Style Sheets
“No-fault CSS” can help you work around frightened clients, buggy software, and readers who still love last year’s browser. In Part One of a series, Zeldman walks you through the fear.
