When I first started out with web design and development, about nine years ago, I went to forums to ask my questions like how to make my own photo-album with JavaScript. I visited these places daily or maybe I should say nightly since we had one computer in my family and during daylight it was pretty much very occupied.
Hello people, it’s summer. You are enjoying it? Hopefully. Yes. Otherwise. Keep working on trying.
Anyway we would just like to announce that we are currently working on redesigning/redeveloping Swedish Fika. It’s fun, fun, fun…
(Written by somebody who is overly excited that Wordpress 3 is finally officially released. )
Ok so this gonna be a real quick tip for you stressed out people who rather think about vacation right now.
Let’s say you get this design given to you with a lot of boxes in different sizes. At a first glance it looks pretty simple. Then you notice it. The borders on the boxes are freaking gradients. Damn. Because you are lazy you call the designer who made this crap for you and tell him that this is too much work.
The majority of all the really cool web developers I have met has either a really crappy web site or no site at all. Heard the expression “The shoemaker’s children are often shoeless” ? That’s us!
As a frontend developer I work very closely with the people on the backend. Now we can discuss exactly what backends and frontends and serverside and programmers etc is. What I mean by saying backend is the people working with the business layer of an web application or web site. The people building up the logic that generates the HTML. I don’t really mind calling it something else so if you got a greater or more specific name that you think describe this area much better feel free to give me suggestions. Backend is the word I will use for now.
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CSS Mastery by Andy Budd.
Probably one of the best books out there about CSS!
Bulletproof Web Design by Dan
Cederholm. A book every designer should have.
Pro CSS Techniques by Ian Lloyd, Jeff Croft and Dan Rubin.
Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman. How to
design with web standards.