CSS and Standards Lessons

Great article on CSS and web standards.  12 lessons in all, from A List Apart.

Canvas for WordPress

As Drew pointed out, Canvas 1.1.2 is now released for WordPress 2.0.  I think this will be great for some “on-the-side” designer types, wanting to do a quick blog, change things around on the fly, etc.  Personally, to get a theme that you have written to work with Canvas is a pain in the ass.  [...]

Dynamic Drive gets CSS

Dynamicdrive.com has just started their new CSS library.  They used to focus only on DHTML scripts but recently began sharing their CSS scripts, which grew rapidly.

Web Dev’s handbook

A huge resource on everything relating to web development.  Hundreds of links, categorized into everything from AJAX to SEO.  Link.

Firefox extensions

Nice list of Firefox extensions for web developers.  I think I listed some of these before but you can never have too many lists. 

Flash design

This is an excellent website done in Flash.

Tweaking the site 2

Thanks to placing certain “list” tags in certain places, everything validates again (stupid search box). I’m still playing with how things look here though, as I got bored with all the white space.

Tweaking the site

So, I changed a couple of things around here and for some reason it doesn’t validate any longer.  It claims to have something to do with the search form on the side bar.
This is total crap, IMO, as the sidebar wasn’t even touched…yet it validated just fine before I messed with stuff.  Stupid “valid” code.  [...]

ESPN saves huge amounts of bandwidth

By chaging their site from tables to CSS, ESPN is now saving about 730 terabytes a year in bandwidth.  That’s unreal.  Read more about it here.

Design resources

A huge list of links that pertain to design…everything from print to web.  Tons of stuff…kind of overwhelming, yet a great bookmark nonetheless.  Link.

Website design resources

A great site with 75 links towards helpful website design resources.  Link.

Why to use web standards

You know those tag lines on sites that say “XHTML” or “CSS Compliant” (see my footer)?  Well, those are called web standards and many people try to use them, while others say they aren’t important.  Here is a website that lists 10 reasons why you should use them.  I’m all for it.  Link.