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Force a Download with HTML5
HTML5 is the greatest version of HTML ever! (Well, at least until the next awesome version comes out). I just learned how trivially easy it is to force downloads with HTML5. I was just trying to force …
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Do Hackers Care About Your Meta CharSet?
The other day, I got this question about the meta charset tag in the mail: “Would you be so kind as to explain to me, in logical terms, how in 7 hecks does the presence of: <meta charset="utf-8"> is …
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Clip Your Images with CSS clip-path
I used to try to clip images using the CSS clip property, but that was so difficult that I typically gave up and got out my image editor. What is the point of spending four hours trying to force an …
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So Excited about image-set() Notation!
As I’ve been writing my next book on forgotten features of CSS, I have been coming across some really cool things. It’s been hard to keep up the writing as I get so excited about actually using the …
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Images for Download in Chapter 5
There are several Try It Yourself exercises in Chapter 5 that require images. You can either use your own or download the ones linked here. Try It Yourself 5.2 In order to follow along with Try It …
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Moving Code Samples to GitHub
Things are moving slowly, but they are moving. I have gotten the Bootstrap book code samples up on GitHub. So those of you who wanted to download them all at once, you now can. I’ll be adding the code …
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Friday Favorites 2/19/2016 - late start
Okay, so Friday, Sunday… last week was pretty wacky for me. And I have nothing to show for it. :-) In other words, in my weekly review with my manager (me…) I had to say that while I did a lot of work …
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The 5 Key Design Ingredients
When you are starting out to design a web page it can be tempting to simply slap ideas on paper or the screen and hope they come together into a coherent whole. But there are five key ingredients to …
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Friday Favorites 2/12/2016 - Typography Edition
This week I’ve been doing a lot of writing about typography. Which has resulted in my looking at a lot of websites and articles about typography. I have known that CSS supported OpenType font features …
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Added Code Samples to GitHub
I’ve gotten the HTML and CSS LiveLesson video code samples up on GitHub. If you’ve gotten the videos you can now grab the HTML and CSS I used in the videos. Let me know if you have any issues.
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What is your favorite design ingredient?
Hi My name is Jennifer and I am addicted to fonts. I regularly have to delete fonts from my computer because I have so many that it fills up my hard drive and slows the computer itself. And I know I’m …
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Typography Tips for Web Designers
Traditional designers have known for centuries the importance of typography in design. But web designers were stuck using boring default fonts with automated line heights and tracking that often made …
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Friday Favorites: 2/5/2016 - Infomagical
Getting Infomagical The InfoMagical site This week was an interesting week for me. I spent a lot less time than I usually do online. Why? Because I was participating in an experiment on reducing …
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Have you taken any design classes?
Sorry this is late today, I had a crisis with a client which upped the adrenaline levels and then the migraine that resulted made it hard to see the screen for a while. :-) But everything is good now. …
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10 Web Design Trends You Should Learn in 2016
It’s amazing to me how far we have come in web design. When I first started, the web was all text, all black and white (or green and black), and links were the most exciting new trend. And that was …
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Friday Favorites: 1/29/2016
Most Interesting Article I Read This Week Tips for Designers Who Don’t Code by SpeckyBoy. [caption id=“attachment_1584” align=“alignnone” width=“719”] Not a lecture, just good advice This is not a …
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Questions about web editors
When I started asking questions about web editors, I started thinking there might be something better than what I was using. There are so many web editors out there, it is hard to choose which one to …
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Two Important Web Editor Features
Web editors offer features that you can’t get from a text editor. But often the one web editor feature people look for is the price–free. I’ve been trying out web editors for nearly twenty years, and …
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Friday Favorites and Features: 1/22/2016
Two New Articles Featured This week two of my articles on web design were featured on InformIT: How to Choose the Right CSS Framework for Your Website Responsive Web Design Is More Than Just Media …