Yesterday we organised the very first Fronteers meetup in Belgium. I had the honor of delivering the first talk, on web design for right-to-left languages. Here’s the story behind this presentation, and the slides of course.
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A web design app1
A subject I’ve been thinking a lot about, and on which Jason Santa Maria published a really good piece yesterday, is a proper web design app. A desktop application specifically made for web designers to mock up their screen designs, before they dive into the code.
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WebKit Inspector wish list11
Once again, the WebKit team (and community) pushed a nice slew of updates to their Web Inspector. Web developers more and more seem to be making the switch from Firebug. If you’re a web designer however, Firebug is still the way to go. I’d love to switch to Safari full time though, so here’s what I’d like to see in the WebKit Inspector.
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Designing the SkiMaps site3
When Plane Tree Software’s new iPhone app SkiMaps was reviewed and approved by Apple in a record time of two days, I had to scramble to get a website design up and running. But it’s live now, and I’m really pleased with the result.
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Some recent projects0
It has been rather quiet here lately, but I’ve been spending a lot of free time on some other projects. I just updated the portfolio, but figured I’d post them here as well.
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CSS inheritance – remember your parent0
Time for a little CSS puzzle! Today I was faced with an issue I couldn’t find a quick solution for. Fortunately a developer had a good suggestion …
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To hell with Web Safe Fonts3
It’s time to leave the notion of “web safe fonts” behind us. Here is my presentation from Barcamp Antwerp last saturday, on alternatives to the current approach to fonts on the web.
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(re)designing0
Back when I relaunched this site in June last year, I wanted to get a quick, simple design so I could start blogging right away. The trouble though was that its most remarkable feature was its absence of design.
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Background fallbacks2
RGBA colors are a very cool part of the CSS3 spec, but maybe you refrained from using RGBA because you wanted to support older browsers? Well, there is a perfectly simple fallback mechanism: provide two backgrounds.
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Color profiles on the web: how do you cope?3
Ever wondered why your vibrant Photoshop mock-up ends up with washed out colors in your browser? I have to admit that I as well haven’t mastered this subject as much as I would like. Time to share your tips and knowledge!
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Fronteers 2008: what’s next for HTML, CSS and IE?5
Extended notes from the excellent Fronteers 2008 conference in Amsterdam. With lots of tasty news about the future of front-end development from industry insiders.
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Border-radius: a tale of two browsers5
A couple of years ago, the web was bursting with tutorials on how to make rounded corners with as little HTML/CSS/Javascript/images as possible. But then came the
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An Illustrator in an online world5
There has been quite a bit of debate lately about the web designer’s toolbox. To Photoshop or not, that is the question. Or rather put some Fireworks into your mock-ups? Let’s skip these and go straight to my weapon of choice: Illustrator. Read on for some reasons why, and a couple of tricks to get you going.
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