some bits and pieces
As the name says this will be a place for interesting tools, imaginative ideas and other bits and bobs.
I will be continually updating this page as I find things worthwhile, to add to it.
International Web Standards Meetup Day
Meet other developers to discuss the W3C web standards: CSS, XHTML, DHTMl, XML, all that wonderful stuff.
Microsoft Advances stopdesign.com
"Seen the Microsoft home page recently? Some remnants of the previous design are still visible, but a large portion of the design changed significantly."
Microsoft has started a blog for IE, don't laugh. Go and have fun but avoid the swearing.
The story of Zen Garden. A facinating insight into the creation of the default design for cssZenGarden. The site is just one year old, happy birthday cssZenGarden.
Dynamic CSS animation. You are probably familiar with the term Dynamic HTML. DHTML suffered badly from cross-browser consistency and has more or less fallen by the wayside. Using CSS along with JavaScript gives us Dynamic CSS which is a lot more reliable and not too difficult to grasp as soon as you understand the basic principles of how to make CSS boxes, or their contents, move.
Faux Columns
A simple solution from Dan Cederholm for faking equal column heights in a CSS-based layout. Published by A List Apart. Used to great effect on this site
CSS Drop Shadows
A technique to build flexible CSS drop shadows that can be applied to arbitrary block elements, that can expand as the content of the block changes shape, compatible with most modern browsers and with better results for standards-compliant browsers.
My Office?
A vision of the future - I will tidy my work space!
A great place for buttons like those used for the XHTML and CSS below.
300 images from 1800 sites. A great collection of icons to give you ideas when looking for that little difference that makes all the .....
