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Category Archives: Web Design

The [Sorry] State of Web Design

Defensive Design For HTML5

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 3:47 pm

Been doing some playing around in the world of HTML5, and I have to say I like it. The biggest problem with it seems to be the near-total lack of support from IE. I suppose in some part this stems from politics; after all, Google is the biggest supporter of HTML5, and the Apple and […]

Reactive Layout part 1, The Principles

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 2:29 pm

I’ve been rethinking my approach to web design starting from First Principles going forward, and I think it’s coherent enough to be exposed to the public. Before I begin, I think I ought to tell you what it’s not. It’s not a checklist. I don’t believe in checklists for anyone beyond the apprentice stage in […]

MooTools First Impression

Filed under: Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 12:59 pm

I’ve been getting more Joomla work thrown at me these days (one of the nice things, from a professional’s POV, about the Joomla community is there are so many amateurs building Joomla sites there’s never a shortage of installations that need fixed) so I decided I needed to get more familiar with MooTools, the javascript […]

Testing, A Developer’s POV

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 11:10 pm

When do you test, how do you test, why do you test? Or even do you test? The answers to the first two questions are: “all the time,” and “as completely as possible.” The third question has several, longer, answers. And if you answered “No” to the last question, perhaps those answers will be of […]

CSS and the meaning in presentation

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 12:51 am

There was a time when I was fully in agreement with Eric Meyer on the naming of classes. It made sense to me to create CSS class names based on the structure of the document. In fact, it was the only way that made sense to me. So what changed? Me, I guess. I can’t […]

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