Archive for the 'XHTML & CSS' Category

Building a Site for the iPhone

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

With all the craze and hype surrounding the new iPhone we’ve decided to undertake the seemingly daunting task of re-creating a Dogbark.com that works on the iPhone. I just picked up my iPhone this past Sunday, and though I love it, I have to say that re-creating a website for it can be quite a [...]

CSS and Internet Explorer

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Lately I’ve been reading a lot about the nuances of Internet Explorer and how it renders CSS. I’ve been using Internet Explorer through an x11 plugin on my mac to view the world in the eyes of Explorer. Since I’ve pretty much always been a mac guy I’ve never really taken that opportunity before. If [...]

BusinessWeek: The 10 Commandments of Web Design

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

This is one of the most concise, insightful articles on web design theory that I’ve read in quite awhile. I know it’s always dangerous to speak in absolutes, but these are, for the most part, right on. Enjoy, and comment! The Article

Commenting your CSS Code

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Today I went back through the CSS code for our homepage at Dogbark.com and I realized how messy everything was. When I was working on that project I thought to myself, “I’ll remember why I did this when I come back to it.” Well 10 sites and 2 months later I had no clue why [...]

CSS Mastery Tips

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I just got a book called “CSS Mastery” by Andy Budd. It’s full of really great book on CSS practices for some of the more common things that programmers would want to do with CSS. It talks about layout, styling, advanced coding, it’s really worth the read to be sure. This weeks CSS Tip: One [...]

iPhoney – iPhone Simulator

Friday, March 21st, 2008

There is a freeware application out there called the “iPhoney” which is a little browser that looks and sort-of-acts like the iPhone web browser. If you are designing a site for the iPhone, this could be a nice little tool for you. Take a look at the iPhoney website. NOTE: The iPhone will display everything [...]

CSS for the iPhone

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I am getting ready to start working on re-styling some of our Dogbark sites to work with the iPhone. We’re getting the developers kit downloaded today… all 2GB of it, and I’ll be starting to develop this next week. I’ll be posting information about the process on here as I go, so check back in [...]