I lead teams at the intersection of strategy and design. Autodidact. Polymath. Barbecue acolyte. I start fires (the good kind).
Richard Rutter of Clagnut has built The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web, to explain the core principles of The Elements of Typographic Style and how they can, and for that matter should be applied to the Web. I’m extremely excited about this new resource and plan to spend some time digging through the site to take it all in.
For those interested in more information regarding the site, check out Richard’s introductory post.
I’ve implemented resolution-dependent layouts (first noted by The Man in Blue) to ensure that this site is tailored to fit the size of your Web browser. Let me know if you run into any problems with the layout.
Changingman
is “a liquid three column CSS layout with a fixed positioned and width centre column, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.”
The One True Layout – I’m noting this so I can come back and check it out in full and hopefully leave my notes in this space. Here is a quick summary for those Web-types who are interested:
“This article shows how to achieve [total layout flexibility, equal hight, non-faux columns and vertical placement of elements across grids/columns], and then how to combine them, creating what could be called the One True Layout™”
CSS: Specificity Wars | And all that Malarkey – A great use of the dark side to explain the specificty within the cascade.
As expected, the introduction of IE 7 will wreak havoc on those sites that utilize CSS hacks to serve up different styles to IE browsers. The IE development team is urging developers to clean up their hacks. They recommend the use of conditional comments, but I lean to using server-side code to detect and serve browser/platform-specific styles as needed. In PHP I use and heartily recommend phpSniff . Now I need to research some options in JSP…