This week there has been quite a large amount of articles regarding the web community and what kind of things people write about. This article at Smashing Magazine to mention one of them. Especially lists or ”listicles” are being attacked and a lot of people seem to agree that most of them are of poor quality.
That browser is old and stupid. It’s not letting us use the latest fancy stuff. It should die!
Yes, we are talking about IE6. Yes, again. There is an ongoing (quite long and dreadful) debate whether to drop support for IE6 or not and when and how it should be done. The reality is that there are (somehow important) people out there using IE6 and we have to show them, as professional web developers, that we are capable of supporting old and dying browsers. My personal hero Noah Stokes has a great article on the subject. Please read.
Around one year ago I subscribed to a newsletter for girls working with IT called “IT-tjej”. A couple of weeks ago after meeting a former employee at Mozilla I signed up for the mailing list at WoMoz. Two weeks ago I went to Geek Girl Meetup.
Two weeks ago Simon gave us some examples on what can go wrong in a web design. In this post I just want to add to this and bring up some more, according to me, quite common mistakes that I think designers do. This is not about complaining and I hope that anybody reading this realize that. It’s simply just about improving our skills and I would love to read a similar post from a designers point of view.
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There are not many unreleased things that one can grow tired of after just a couple days. But the iPad definately fits into that category. I know a lot of people is dead and fuzzy-headed tired of even hearing the word iPa… (See? Didn’t say it!) So uhm, sorry, but this post is for not ”deadly tired” people. Continue reading…
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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.