Negative Space: web design
- All the News that Fits the Page
- Web browsers automatically adjust for the best presentation, unless you do extra work to stop them from adjusting.
- But How?
- Web browsers ignore HTML tags they don’t understand.
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
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Cascading style sheets really kick ass. Once you start using them, you’ll find it hard to imagine what you did without them.
- The Colour of my True Love’s Page
- Messing with colors just gets you deeper into the rabbit hole.
- Django: Beyond the SQL
- Django is a great application framework for Python and web applications. You can use it to greatly speed up your database and application development both on the web and on the command line. This tutorial is currently a very rough draft; it probably won’t be very useful without the assistance of someone who knows Django running the tutorial. If I ever run this tutorial a second time, I’ll probably update it with screenshots to make it more usable for individuals.
- Finding Your Center
- The center tag version centered alignment.
- Google’s responsive design deadline
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For the foreseeable future, I’m going to stick with a well-structured page that can be displayed appropriately in a variety of devices, rather than a responsive design, for the simple reason that I generally don’t like the “mobile-friendly” shifts that I see.
- Java is an Island
- There are two types of Java. There are two ways of using Javascript… if you think complexity doubles at each step, you’re thinking like a programmer.
- Jerry Stratton
- Jerry Stratton is a writer, blogger, and reader. You can read his works at the blog, Mimsy Were the Borogoves, the satirical newspaper The Walkerville Weekly Reader, and everywhere fine words are bought and sold.
- Or What’s an Image For?
- The zen of images without images.
- Spending More Money
- You can even provide different pages for different browsers.
- Style Sheets
- Style sheets allow you to create your own HTML tags.
- What is a Majority of the Net?
- If you design well, you’re designing for everyone.
- When You’ve Been Framed!
- Whoa. Frames. You hate ’em right? I hate ’em myself!
- You Can’t Fool All the People All the Time.
- Sometimes you need to choose whether to break old browsers that sucked a lot, or break new browsers that suck moderately less.