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HTML5: An Introduction From a Designer’s Perspective

I remember shivering in my college dorm room trying to figure out how to get some weird /div to float in some sort of column like structure and silently crying a single tear as my youth slowly withered away. Those days are gone!

With the birth of Firefox, the step-child banishment of Internet Explorer 6 and widespread adaptation of standards… life indeed has become much cheerier for us front-end web developers. What could be better than that? HTML5 coming to a browser near you! Scratch that, they’re now playing.

HTML5: An Introduction From a Designer's Perspective
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This article is a brief introduction to what we can expect in HTML5… from a designer’s perspective.

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The Case Against Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is no longer the go-to platform to develop rich interaction content as it once was. Developers are more enthusiastic about using alternatives like jQuery rather than turning to Flash. While I still think Flash has its place, I’m not promoting it or recommending its usage to my clients if other more straight-forward and functional options exist.

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Practical Tips From An Event Apart SF 2008

An Event Apart is from our smart friends at A List Apart. Popular web designer/developers such as Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman, Dan Cederholm, Jason Keith, Jason Santa Maria and others were on hand last year to unleash a can of knowledge whoopass on us eager attendees last year. Now that a year has passed and I’m preparing for this year’s version, I’ve decided to reflect and share on some of the practical tips I learned from last.

An Event Apart San Francisco 2008
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Six Years of Suckerfish Dropdown Menus

If you’ve ever done the “dropdown dance” while developing your websites and avoided clunky code while still attempting to be standards compliant, accessible and semantic — then you know about the Suckerfish menus made popular on A List Apart. That article was published on November 7th, 2003, so that means we will be celebrating the sixth year anniversary of our favorite friendly neighborhood dropdown.

Celebrating 6 Years of Suckerfish Menus

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CSS Selectors – A Guide To The Common & The Rare

Most of you will be surprised by some of the CSS selectors that I’m writing about today. For instance, did you know can select a element based on a ending substring such as “.pdf”? BAM, add that selector to your a element and you can make all PDFs on your website italic and purple without any addition HTML! You xan do that with other substrings too!

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We’re also going to go over some of the differences between more common selectors just so you know you’re efficiently implementing your code.

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5 Innovative CSS Techniques You Should Know About

We all love CSS but keeping up with the latest techniques can be quite difficult at times. So for your convenience, I’ve compiled five tutorials that showcase useful and innovative techniques that you should know about.



[Just to be clear, I know some form of probably all these techniques may have existed for awhile but I feel these five choices can still be used/improved upon by us developers and/or not fully adapted yet even though they are known by many to be productive. A bump and a nod, if you will.]
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The Web Host With The Most (for you)

There is more to a website than just designing it – you will also have to get a hosting plan that will support it. To make life a bit easier for you we have gone through the most popular types of web hosting on the market today and what to look for in their respective hosting plans.

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CSS Rehab – 3 Step Program To Getting Clean

I’ve been making websites commercially for about five years now. In 2004, a year or two out of college — it was definitely a learning process for me. I originally graduated with a degree centered on print design, so programming in general was very new to me. During that time, table-based layout structure was still prevalent, so that’s how I started out.

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Why I Love Expression Engine (CMS)

About two years ago, I was searching for a Content Management System (CMS) that was easy to learn, supported, flexible, feature-rich and had a level of popularity that would help provide longevity for the platform. My journey led me through a cacophony of solutions, most of which were very similar to each other and did very little to convince me of their superiority over one another.

I Love Expression Engine
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10 Simple Email Marketing Tips

Email marketing is as popular as ever in these economically turbulent times. It’s inexpensive but when done correctly can yield tremendous results. There are some tricky pitfalls such as spam filtering but what better way to directly connect your audience to what you’re trying to say? Here are ten simple tips that will help you understand the world of email marketing and how to hopefully turn out some successful campaigns.

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