What Do I Know Development wise, it’s the perfect event to exploit CSS, for with one style sheet (and a handful of common templates) you can style not only generic content (paragraphs, structure, navigation) but also apply colors, icons, and other presentational elements according to which team site the user is viewing. This is the kind of thing that makes css so...

Annoying everyone! That is the job of rebuild in moveabletype. Some people, like John Hicks, have switched blogs over this little issue. So what is the solution? This is what I want to figure out so bear with me as I converse with myself on how to go about this. The problem is that each page that is generated has to be updated when you make changes to your blog. If...

Jason Santa Maria | Line in the Sand 30. Heath say’s | may 18, 2004 | 6:01 am I think that a lot of the hissy feedback in regards to SixAparts decision comes from an interesting cultural revolution within the computer community. Within the ideals of community back in the day (youth be gone) ‘free’ meant freedom. For example, in the 60′s with...

mezzoblue § Tables? Oh, the horror! But if tabular data is structurally tabular, then what inherently (besides a fear of the past) makes a two- or three-column layout structurally non-tabular? Two columns invariably end up in a pair of <div>s, or a pair of <td>s. What makes the former structural, but the latter any less so? A pair of <div>s...

Did you ever have a pimple? Come on, I know you have. Are the kind of person who tries to cover it with make up (guys and girls alike) or do you try and squish it out of existence, only to end up looking like you’ve been hit by a softball. These questions introduce a concept that I often see in many aspects of aethetics and design. Be it a little blimish or a...

Calling all designers! What I would like to do is an ROI for standards-compliant web design. The basic idea is to be able to create a case study/ROI for designers to pitch with. I came up with the idea after reading a number of interviews of designers. However, I need input from people who design for a living so I can use realistic figures. The end result should...